{"id":19239,"date":"2017-01-16T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19239"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:36:47","slug":"gov-christie-we-hardly-knew-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19239","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Christie, we hardly knew ye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We’re two weeks and two days into 2017, so why not take a quick look back at the biggest political winners and losers of 2016?<\/p>\n

The biggest winner? No question: Donald J. Trump<\/strong>. He’s the next president of the United States. He won an election almost no one thought he’d win. Not me. Not most of the so-called “experts.”<\/p>\n

One of my Facebook friends, though, said she called it early on. She knew Trump would win all along. Bully for her.<\/p>\n

Enough of that.<\/p>\n

The biggest loser? It’s not who you think. I am going to give the Biggest Loser Award to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sure, Hillary Rodham Clinton lost big in 2016. Christie, though, imploded in a curious way.<\/p>\n

He started the year running for the Republican presidential nomination. He was full of bluster, bravado and boastfulness. He was going to kick a** and take names. He was no pushover.<\/p>\n

Then he got steamrolled by Trump, who flattened the field of 15 other GOP contenders\/pretenders.<\/p>\n

Christie then endorsed Trump and became his go-to guy. He would run his transition if Trump got elected.<\/p>\n

Then what happened? Trump actually got elected and just like that Christie was removed as transition boss; Trump gave that task to the vice president-elect, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.<\/p>\n

Christie, meanwhile, has been fingered in that on-going, never-ending “Bridgegate” scandal emanating from\u00a0the closure of the George Washington Bridge because Christie was mad at a New Jersey mayor who declined to endorse him for re-election in 2014 … allegedly!<\/em><\/p>\n

Christie’s poll numbers have tanked. He is coming up for re-election and he now stands a good chance of being thumped.<\/p>\n

There you have it. Stand tall, Donald Trump and Chris Christie.<\/p>\n\n

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We’re two weeks and two days into 2017, so why not take a quick look back at the biggest political winners and losers of 2016? The biggest winner? No question: Donald J. Trump. He’s the next president of the United States. He won an election almost no one thought he’d win. Not me. Not most … Continue reading Gov. Christie, we hardly knew ye<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[74,749,965,1424,1902,2139,3067,6839],"class_list":["post-19239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-bridgegate","tag-chris-christie","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-washington-bridge","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-mike-pence","tag-trump-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19241,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239\/revisions\/19241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}