New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is officially not running for president, despite repeated wooing from Republican elites and major donors who remain unhappy with the GOP presidential field and have refused for months to take no for an answer.
Christie’s emphatic no was reported by Fox News, as well as the Newark Star-Ledger, which quoted his brother Todd saying a run was not in consideration.
Continue Reading“I’m sure that he’s not going to run,” Todd Christie told the paper. “If he’s lying to me, I’ll be as stunned as I’ve ever been in my life.”
The extent to which Christie was ever actually considering running for president — as opposed to mouthing lines such as “I’ll keep you posted” to eager donors — remains an open question.
Nonetheless, the door seemed to close quite clearly with the report on Fox News, whose head honcho, Roger Ailes, has a strong relationship with Christie.
Christie, still no - running for VP?
via politico.com
