Balloon Juice - Late Night Open Thread: (Even) Chris Christie Rejects No Labels

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Running against Trump again in 2024 had all the hallmarks of another attempted Christie do-over.
41% : They dismissed past warnings that they might inadvertently help Trump as Biden-campaign agitprop -- but it seems the Republican agrees.
38% : "While I believe this is a conversation that needs to be had with the American people, I also believe that if there is not a pathway to win and if my candidacy in any way, shape or form would help Donald Trump become president again, then it is not the way forward.
28% : He insisted repeatedly in interviews, as recently as last week, that the nation is craving an alternative to Trump and President Joe Biden...
24% : Every serious person who has taken a look at this gambit immediately sees they would just be helping to elect Donald Trump," Sarah Longwell, who founded Republican Voters Against Trump, wrote on X. "Time for No Labels and its donors to pull the plug."...
21% : With much of the non-Trump portion of the GOP shrieking at him to get out of the race and give Nikki Haley a clean shot at the front-runner, Christie finally dropped out with few votes and no delegates, but on his way out the door he damaged Haley by commenting on a hot mic that she was "going to get smoked" by Trump...

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