Jonathan Bernstein: “One thing we can be fairly sure of about Wednesday’s first Republican presidential debate is that Chris Christie will denounce Donald Trump, including calling him a coward for not showing up. Another thing we can be fairly certain of is that Christie is not going to be the Republican nominee for president.”
“That doesn’t make Christie’s effort pointless.”
“It’s not clear, as Bloomberg’s Joshua Green reports, whether Chris Christie really thinks he can be president despite some of the worst poll numbers in presidential nomination history, or if he’s simply out for revenge against the former president. The truth is it doesn’t matter as long as he sees bashing Trump as the means of getting whatever it is he’s after. That’s because his party needs some Trump-bashing.”
