GOP Donors Quietly Celebrate Christie’s Marriage Surrender

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s base of supporters couldn’t have been happier than when he gave up his fight today against same-sex marriage, McKay Coppins reports.

“Indeed, amid all the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth on the religious right, the GOP’s donor class quietly rejoiced that Christie — widely viewed as the golden boy of his party’s moderate, Northeastern, corporate establishment — had chosen to abandon this particular culture war battle. Though few of them are eager to acknowledge it on the record, the monied tri-state-dwelling donors who made up Mitt Romney’s core base of donors and are likely to fund Christie’s 2016 campaign generally support same-sex marriage. More importantly, they see it as a losing issue for their party.”