Who Are These Sad-Looking People Sitting Behind Chris Christie?

Look at the faces. They’re miserable. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who until Wednesday was running for president, was standing before them to suspend his campaign. I get that. What I don’t get is that these people actually looked like they believed he ever had a chance. Just look at them. Feel free to click the video and listen to Christie if you want, but that’s not the point. The point is these people—and these people somehow expected their candidate of choice to go the distance.

Politics can do strange things to people. Blinding and deafening them are two of those things. And you’d have to be both to think that come next January, we would have been saying the words “President Chris Christie.”

Christie’s campaign was all about attacking Trump. Even his decision to drop out was about stopping Trump from winning.

Christie had no chance himself to win even before he entered the race. Remember Bridgegate? That was the scandal revolving around the closure of the George Washington Bridge by Christie aides reportedly to exact political payback against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, who did not support Christie’s campaign for governor. The goal, which was successful for four days, was to create traffic jams in Fort Lee.

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This whole thing was a mess, which turned into a legal matter, as well as a danger to public safety. As governor, Christie was right in the middle of it all, although he claimed he had no knowledge of what transpired. At the end of the day, while some heads rolled, Christie’s remained intact, though some deem this scandal to be the beginning of the end of his political career. People still remember.

People also still remember his Obama hug. Seems like a small thing, but not to many Republicans, who viewed it as a kiss of betrayal.

Christie’s run for president in 2016 was followed by his obvious ambition to land a job in the first Trump administration, but not just any job; his hope was to be attorney general or vice president only. That hope was dashed.

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So Christie went from pulling out all the stops to get a job from Trump to the 2024 presidential race, where Christie postured himself as the taker-downer of former President Donald Trump. His constant bashing was as sad as his poll numbers—the only thing sadder being the faces of the people who somehow thought Christie was anything more than a thorn in Trump’s side. Several times as this race has unfolded, I wondered who the people were who were donating to his campaign and giving him any poll numbers at all. When I saw this video and the people sitting behind him, I had my answer.

The race continues without the former governor of the Garden State as we head to the Iowa Caucus on January 15 and then to the “first-in-the-nation” controversial New Hampshire Primary on January 23.