Mangu-Ward Christie’s imaginative and prescient of America appears to be one the place Donald Trump just isn’t president. For some, maybe that’s inspiring sufficient.
McCarthy His imaginative and prescient for America is New Jersey, and most Republicans, at the least, discover that unsettling.
Think about you’re a G.O.P. operative or marketing campaign supervisor. What’s your elevator pitch for a Christie candidacy?
Bruni By the Iowa caucuses, Trump might be underneath a number of indictments and in such a flamboyant psychological tailspin that Republicans should hear severely to his rivals. Are they actually going to choose DeSantis’s whine to Christie’s roar?
Coaston New Jersey normalcy.
Cottle Takes a bully to smack a bully.
Douthat Don’t need Trump? The foundations are clear: Solely a tristate-area Republican can defeat one other tristate-area Republican.
French Nobody is extra harmful than a person with nothing to lose.
Hemmer You desire a straight-talking, no-holds-barred candidate who will pummel your enemies however cease in need of fomenting an revolt? Christie’s your man.
Mangu-Ward Spicy phrases, bland insurance policies.
McCarthy Wouldn’t it’s enjoyable to see him debate Joe Biden?
Ross Douthat and David French are Occasions columnists.
Frank Bruni is a professor of journalism and public coverage at Duke College, the creator of the e-book “The Fantastic thing about Nightfall” and a contributing Opinion author.
Michelle Cottle (@mcottle) is a member of the Occasions’s editorial board.
Jane Coaston is a Occasions Opinion author.
Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry) is an affiliate professor of historical past and director of the Rogers Middle for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt College and the creator of “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics within the Nineteen Nineties” and “Messengers of the Proper: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.”
Katherine Mangu-Ward (@kmanguward) is the editor in chief of Cause journal.
Daniel McCarthy is the editor of “Trendy Age: A Conservative Evaluation.”
