Chris Christie's conceit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Or that he voted for Trump again in 2020, having spent the previous four years as one of his staunchest advocates on TV.
45% : For example, that after belly-flopping in the 2016 New Hampshire primary, he dropped out and became the first major candidate to endorse Trump.
43% : Trump skipped every debate, avoiding any encounter with Christie in a formal setting.
38% : But his words now can't erase the reality that he was only convinced that Trump doesn't belong in the Oval Office long after many of his fellow Republicans, who reached that conclusion at the first time of asking and not, like Christie, the second.
38% : He claimed only he could beat Trump, when he was the last guy who could.
37% : Early in the spring, when speculation ramped up about whether Christie would seek the nomination, anti-Trump figures on the Right expressed a desire to see him run solely so he could "bludgeon Trump" in the GOP primary debates.
37% : He declared he would do everything he could to defeat Trump, yet has since done all he can to help him win.
35% : Which, when it comes to Trump and his chances of beating him, is just what Chris Christie is.
33% : If Christie's continued presence is seen as stymieing Haley, who was just 15% behind Trump in the latest poll of New Hampshire, the pressure to drop out will only intensify, especially since, instead of exiting gracefully and surrendering the anti-Trump lane to Trump's original United Nations ambassador, he's started accusing her of "enabling" her former boss and being a "Trump sycophant.
32% : He pledged to pursue Trump relentlessly to force him to debate, then never tried to follow through.
27% : He asserted he wouldn't run merely to be a "paid assassin" against Trump, then did nothing but lob verbal grenades at him.
26% : Even Christie himself has no answer to that question, his vision of vindicating himself, the party, and even the country as the teller of necessary but unpalatable truths about Trump being absurd on its face.
26% : "CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINEREverything Christie said he would do or needed to happen to beat Trump, none of it came to pass.
24% : Christie claims he changed his mind after Jan. 6, and he has been a relentless critic of Trump ever since.
19% : Or that, when asked if he'd still pick Trump over Hillary Clinton, conceded that he would.
17% : He came away with nothing to show for it, which prompted the New York Times to wonder, "If Chris Christie Debates Without Donald Trump, Does He Make a Sound?"
16% : The truth about Donald Trump.
15% : The truth that Trump trails "drama and chaos" in his wake, that his "conduct is unacceptable" and makes him "unfit for office," and that he already lost to Joe Biden once and will lose to him again if he's a "convicted felon.
12% : Once the debates approached, Christie made confronting Trump onstage such a focus that it almost seemed to be his campaign's entire raison d'être.After Trump skipped the first debate in August, Christie swore he would "follow him around the country" so that Trump would be forced to talk to him "one way or another."

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