“This is not speculation,” the Republican and former supporter of Trump who could become president himself said on ABC’s “This Week.” “This is based on the polls that I did before the 2020 election and what happened in the 2020 election. And since then it has gotten worse,” he said.
Add to that “what you see happening in 2022 with the election denial” will come down across the country, Christie said. “I think Republicans understand” the impact, he said.
“We could go through the whole list: Losers, losers, losers, losers,” he said, listing the names of defeated extremists Trump supported, including Republicans Kari Lake for governor of Arizona, Doug Mastriano for governor of Pennsylvania, Blake Masters for senator from Arizona, and Tim Michels for governor of Wisconsin.
A Bloomberg columnist on Saturday warned that it would be “politically stupid” for Trump to alienate a larger group of Americans and have any hope of winning the presidency.
Columnist Robert A. George was referring in particular to Trump’s appallingly racist attack on former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, wife of political enemy Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
That would certainly kill many Asian Americans, a powerful voting bloc with “rising influence,” George warned.