{"id":2016682,"date":"2023-08-30T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-ad-with-trumps-mug-shot-hits-the-airwaves-chris-christie-pac-behind-it\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T12:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:17:16","slug":"attack-ad-with-trumps-mug-shot-hits-the-airwaves-chris-christie-pac-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-ad-with-trumps-mug-shot-hits-the-airwaves-chris-christie-pac-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie PAC airs attack ad featuring Trump&#8217;s mug shot."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fattack-ad-with-trumps-mug-shot-hits-the-airwaves-chris-christie-pac-behind-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016682&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Only\u2063 Shot Chris Christie Has at the Republican Nomination<\/h2>\n<p>The only shot \u2062former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has at the Republican nomination is to take shots at Donald Trump \u2014 because taking\u200b shots\u2064 is all he\u2019s good at.<\/p>\n<p>Christie is, for all intents and purposes, an \u2063insult\u2063 bot. He takes to the debate \u2062stage, hones in on the most vulnerable target,\u2062 and unleashes. This worked in 2016, when he effectively destroyed Marco Rubio\u2019s campaign \u200dby saying the Florida senator could do nothing but reiterate a \u201cmemorized 25-second speech.\u201d Rubio\u2064 then went on to, unfortunately, prove\u200c his point.<\/p>\n<p>The great irony, of course, is that Christie can do little more than reiterate memorized five-second insults. \u200bThis time \u2063around, his target was conservative activist Vivek Ramaswamy, who he compared to \u2062Barack Obama and who, Christie\u200b said, \u201csounds like ChatGPT.\u201d But he was picking on Vivek\u2062 because the only insult target \u2062Christie has that can give his campaign a needed boost \u2064\u2014\u200d former\u200c President Donald Trump \u2014 wasn\u2019t \u2064there last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But if Christie can\u2019t use one of his rehearsed zingers on the GOP front-runner, one of his super PACs can certainly use the latest politicized prosecution against Trump \u2064in a nasty \u2064smear ad.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTired of the drama, the distractions, the lies?\u201d the narrator of the ad said over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stay-out-of-our-state-desantis-warns-rioters-left-wing-portland-thugs-in-presser\/\" title=\"\u2018Stay Out Of Our State\u2019: DeSantis Warns Rioters, Left-Wing Portland Thugs In Presser\">mug shot<\/a> and other minatory-looking \u2063grainy black-and-white footage of Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s time for\u200b conservatives to win again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad \u200bnoted that, as a prosecutor, Christie \u201cconvicted child\u2064 pornographers\u201d and, as New Jersey\u2019s \u200dgovernor, he \u201ctook \u2062on the teachers union and won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-walker-reiterates-push-to-oust-anti-trump-sen-burr\/\" title=\"Mark Walker reiterates push to oust anti-Trump Sen. Burr\">real conservative<\/a>,\u200b Christie tells the\u2063 truth \u2014 and he\u2019ll beat Joe\u200d Biden \u200beasily,\u201d the ad claimed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, according to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregate, he can\u2019t even beat the candidate he says \u200dsounds like an AI bot \u2014 along with Trump and three other politicians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The numbers don\u2019t lie: As of\u200c Wednesday morning, Trump sits\u2062 at\u200c 53.6 percent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 13.5 percent, alleged ChatGPT imposter hologram Ramaswamy\u2062 at\u2064 7.3 percent, former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador \u200cto the United Nations Nikki Haley at 4.9 percent, former Vice President Mike Pence at 4.6 percent, and Christie \u2014 the guy who\u2019ll \u201cbeat Joe Biden easily\u201d \u2014 at 2.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Money doesn\u2019t \u200blie, either \u2014 and former \u200cPresident Trump raised over $9.4 million since \u200dthe mugshot was taken \u2064on\u2064 Thursday, \u2062Fox\u200d News reported Tuesday evening. That brings his total August haul \u200cto over $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>I\u200c guess \u201cTired of the drama, the distractions, the lies?\u201d wasn\u2019t actually \u2062a rhetorical question.<\/p>\n<p>As\u2062 for Christie, numbers on\u2063 his \u200dfundraising are way less\u2063 splashy (and somewhat more vague). \u2064Tell It Like It Is PAC, in \u200cits first \u200cfiling with the Federal Election Commission, had raised $5.9 million between\u2064 the launch of Christie\u2019s bid in June and the end of July, \u200baccording to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>But, at least \u200bhe\u2019s getting play from the numerous anti-Trump \u201cconservative\u201d groups that \u200cstill maintain an active\u2064 presence on \u200csocial media \u2014 like Republicans Against Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Watch the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-ad-from-left-wing-activists-allowed-to-trend-on-twitter-inciting-violence-against-conservatives-the-liberty-loft\/\" title=\"Attack Ad From Left-Wing Activists Allowed to Trend On Twitter Inciting Violence Against Conservatives\">attack ad<\/a> in American history featuring a former president\u2019s mug shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTired\u200b of the drama, the distractions, the lies? It\u2019s time for conservatives to win again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new \u2064ad from \u201cTell \u200cIt Like It Is,\u201d a super PAC supporting \u2063Chris \u200cChristie for president. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e82QyxEVxl\">pic.twitter.com\/e82QyxEVxl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RpsAgainstTrump\/status\/1696619726779134412?\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Take the fact they\u2019re echoing Christie\u2019s message, put it together with the website\u200d URL of Republicans Against\u200b Trump \u2014 reps4biden.com\u200b \u2014 and see if you can figure \u200bout who the former New Jersey governor is really helping.<\/p>\n<p>Given this, I was almost certain the granddaddy of the \u201cconservative\u201d anti-Trump organizations, \u200cthe Lincoln Project, would retweet this, too \u2014 but I guess they were\u2062 all too busy not \u2064screening their board members for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-ad-with-trumps-mug-shot-hits-the-airwaves-chris-christie-pac-behind-it\/\" title=\"Chris Christie PAC airs attack ad featuring Trump's mug shot.\">allegedly grooming young men<\/a> with promises of jobs in exchange for sex, or \u200dwhatever it is they do, to catch this one.<\/p>\n<p>The point is\u2062 that Christie\u2062 has neither the resources nor the numbers to have a \u201clane\u201d to the \u200cRepublican nomination. His last win in an \u2064election came\u2064 nearly 10 \u200cyears ago \u200cat this\u2063 point \u2014 and while it\u2019s a kind of state tradition for New Jerseyans to\u200d generally loathe their governors\u200b by the time they leave office, Christie\u2019s \u2063approval rating as he was set to depart the governor\u2019s mansion in\u2062 Trenton \u2063was a historically low 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Christie\u2019s response, according to Politico?\u2063 \u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u2064 poll that matters is when people actually\u2063 go in and vote,\u201d Christie told reporters at a June 2017 news conference. \u201cIt would be nice if people actually\u200c polled voters or people who are likely \u2063to vote, because everybody \u200belse\u2019s opinion, quite frankly, doesn\u2019t matter about whether\u200b you\u200c like\u200c a public official or you don\u2019t \u2014 unless you\u2019re willing\u2064 to \u2062move forward and exercise that preference at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">polling places<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, polls generally do reflect \u200creality \u2014 and the reality remains that, if you average out all the national surveys, Christie has to make up 51.1 percentage\u2063 points on Donald Trump to take the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Putting \u2064Trump\u2019s mug shot \u2014 a photo which, contrary to Christie\u2019s\u2063 hopes, seems to have \u200csolidified support for the \u200dformer president, not \u2062diminished it \u200b\u2014 in an advertisement isn\u2019t the way to start closing that huge\u200b gap. Turns\u200b out Republicans aren\u2019t \u200c\u201ctired\u201d of what Christie wants \u200bto \u2064paint as \u201cdrama,\u201d \u201cdistractions\u201d and \u201clies.\u201d Nice try, \u200dthough.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/attack-ad-trumps-mug-shot-hits-airwaves-chris-christie-pac-behind\/\">Attack Ad with\u200c Trump&#8217;s\u2064 Mug Shot \u2062Hits the Airwaves &#8211; Chris Christie PAC Behind It<\/a> appeared \u2064first on \u2062 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie&#8217;s sole chance for the Republican nomination lies in attacking Donald Trump, as it is his only skill. Essentially an insult bot, Christie strategically selects the weakest target during debates and launches his verbal assaults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2016683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}