While addressing a crowd at the Annual Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner in New Hampshire, presidential hopeful Chris Christie gave his vision of a presidential agenda focused on taxes, energy, and foreign policy.
According to NJ.com:
“Within the first 100 days, if I were to run for president and be elected, we would change this tax system in this country so that people and companies aren’t leaving the country anymore,” Christie said during a brief question and answer session with audience members at the Concord and Merrimack County GOP Annual Lincoln Reagan Day Dinner.
“Secondly, we would pass a national energy policy, and one that takes full advantage of all of the resources that we have available to us to help grow our economy and make the world a more peaceful and stable place,” he said. “And the third thing is … is to reestablish American leadership around the world.”
Christie has traveled to New Hampshire five times in the last year, and some strategists believe the state to be crucial to his presidential bid.
“For Mr. Christie, New Hampshire “could very well be his do-or-die moment,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist who worked on Sen. John McCain ’s 2008 presidential bid. “It would do a lot for Christie to provide him a pathway forward.”
However, other political pundits are less optimistic about a Christie presidency. Pollster and statistician Nate Silver states on his website FiveThrityEight that Christie’s chances are most likely overrated, because he is “too moderate.”
“But the party has become more conservative since 2008, and it has a deep field of potential 2016 candidates. Republicans can afford to be picky. So far, Bush’s candidacy has not been received that well by influential Republicans.
Christie, however, ranks to the left of Bush by the statistical systems that measure candidate ideology.
Any voter who opposes Bush for ideological reasons probably won’t find a lot to like in Christie either.”
The question concerning a Christie run for president now seems to whether or not he can win over what is looking like an increasingly conservative Republican voter base.
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