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Can Christie Stop the Bleeding?

April 21, 2015 · 6:00 am ET · 14 Comments

“To put it mildly, this is not the presidential campaign Chris Christie would have envisioned for himself,” Bloomberg reports.

“No wonder the New Jersey governor and one-time Republican rock star is heading to Washington D.C. on Tuesday. At the State Department, where he’s scheduled to deliver a foreign policy speech at the Washington Conference on the Americas, he’ll get a break from Monday’s double barrel shot of bad news on the home front: The defection of a longtime political ally and personal friend to a political rival and a Quinnipiac poll showing him with a record-low approval rating of 38 percent in his state.”

“All of these developments have unfolded against a more ominous backdrop: Christie awaits word on whether he or members of his staff will face criminal indictments in the so-called Bridgegate scandal.”

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