Chris Christie has a dream. Not a fantasy, though some might call it that, but rather a waking ambition that he is pursuing with open eyes. “I am going to be the alternative to Donald Trump,” he says. “And when I am, I’m going to beat him.”
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The former New Jersey governor made this declaration standing behind the counter at the Red Arrow Diner, a pilgrimage site for presidential hopefuls who seek to ingratiate themselves with New Hampshire voters. At the moment, Christie was ingratiating himself to a gaggle of reporters who were trailing Christie on his first visit to the Granite State since he’d declared his candidacy a few weeks earlier.
But what about Ronald Reagan and the John Birch Society? Christie’s dream campaign has historical precedent. Look back to the 1960s, as Christie does in his, when William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan purged the Birchers and their kooky fringe conspiracy theories from the GOP. Then, as now, there was a need “for Republicans to tell the truth to other Republicans about what’s out there and what’s obvious,” Christie said in an interview with The Washington Post.
Most Republicans have not worked with Trump, of course. And most still like what they see from afar, despite his election failures in 2020 — assuming they think Trump actually lost, which is no guarantee. Trump holds steady in recentof Republican voters, with more than 50 percent of support. In New Hampshire, independent polls have been scarce but suggest that, although
“I’ll never forget it: I stood in a room of 3,000 Republicans and said, ‘It’s wrong that we have a president who lies,’” he recalls. “Everybody booed me.” A discussion among whom? At gatherings like the one at the VFW in Derry, the possibility of a return to form for the Republican Party can seem, at least, plausible. Quinn Mitchell, a gangly 15-year-old from Walpole, N.H., rose to speak, and he pressed Christie on whether the self-selecting crowd members here at the VFW were really the ones the former governor needed to be impressing.
“Ah, it’s good to be here,” Christie said to no one in particular as he landed on a stool at the counter with his wife, Mary Pat. He got oatmeal with bananas and brown sugar; she got eggs over easy and toast. “You would wonder why do I look like I look and she looks like she looks,” the famously corpulent Christie told their server, unprompted. “But you know, there’s no fairness in life.”
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