Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie insisted Sunday that Donald Trump “can’t win the general election.”
“It’s not speculation,” the Republican and former staunch Trump supporter, who may run for president himself, told ABC’s “This Week.” “This is based on the polls that we knew about before the 2020 election and what we saw actually happening in the 2020 election. And it’s gotten worse since then,” he noted.
Add to that “what you saw happening in 2022, with non-electoral losses” going down across the country, Christie said. “I think Republicans recognize” the impact of this, he said.
“We could go through the whole list: loser, loser, loser, loser,” he noted, ticking off the names of defeated extremists backed by Trump, including Republicans Kari Lake for Arizona governor, Doug Mastriano for Pennsylvania governor, Blake Masters for Arizona. Senator and Tim Michels for Governor of Wisconsin.
Trump finally kicked off the campaign trail on Saturday in what some described as low-energy speeches in South Carolina and New Hampshire. He announced that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination in November.
A Bloomberg columnist warned on Saturday that it was “politically stupid” for Trump to alienate a growing swath of Americans and have any hope of winning the presidency.
Columnist Robert A. George specifically referenced Trump’s horrifically racist attacks on his former transportation secretary Elaine Chao, the wife of his political nemesis, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
That will certainly shut out large numbers of Asian-Americans, a powerful constituency with “growing influence,” George warned.
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