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Born to Run: The Life and Times of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
TIME takes a photographic look at the formative years of the Garden State’s larger-than-life governor.
What You Missed While Not Watching the First Night of the Republican Convention
7:14 p.m. The hurricane couldn’t stop it. The weak economy didn’t underfund it. The orange-bottomed girls at the Hooters down the street won’t distract from it. Day One of the 2012 Republican National Convention has …
Chris Christie’s Race to the Bottom
In honor of his keynote speech Tuesday night, I thought I’d recount a revealing story about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. If you think of …
Handicapping the Veepstakes: Why the Clamor for Christie May Go Unheeded
Part 4 of our ongoing series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio, Rob Portman and Mitch Daniels.
The candidate: Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor
The bio: A native Garden Stater, Christie grew up middle-class and …
As Newt Rises, the Romney Campaign Remains Restrained in Iowa
West Des Moines, Iowa
Chris Christie had barely begun his pitch for Mitt Romney when the familiar refrain cut in. “Mic check! Mic check!” shouted some two-dozen protesters, several of whom sneaked onstage behind the New Jersey governor for this campaign rally at the corporate headquarters of Kum and Go, a Des Moines-based gas and …
Chris Christie Endorses Mitt Romney
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid on Tuesday afternoon the latest jolt of momentum for a campaign that steadily gathered strength with less than three months before the first wave of …
Christie Passes on 2012: ‘Now Is Not My Time’
Even after weeks of fevered divination and his September Sermon on the Mount at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, it should surprise no one that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn’t running for President.
Chris Christie Delivers an Electrifying Speech, but He’s No Conservative Savior
Despite the entreaties of wealthy Republican donors and reporters yearning for a hot new storyline, Chris Christie looks like he’s not going to run for President. Speaking at the Reagan library in California on Tuesday night, …
Mr. Christie Comes to Washington
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took both Republicans and Democrats to task for political cowardice on entitlement reform in his first big Washington speech today at the American Enterprise Institute.
“The President’s not talking about it because he’s waiting for the Republicans in Congress to start talking about it,” said …
Dogs, Homework and New Jersey’s $400 Million Mistake
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has been promoted as a model of effective Republican governance, has been faced this week with a clerical error that prevented New Jersey from being in the running for a Race to the Top grant of $400 million. The governor had initially defended his education commissioner Bret Schundler, saying that …
The Christie Model
Taking on the media is always something that endears Republicans to their base, and this from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has just the right mix of unapologetic directness, snark and indignation to make conservatives swoon.
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