Chris Christie
Christie's pick for the Lautenberg seat says it's too soon to talk about votes
Governor Chris Christie announced this afternoon that he had chosen New Jersey's attorney general, Jeffrey Chiesa, to assume the Senate seat of the late Frank Lautenberg, pending a special election. More
Giffords group lobbies Chris Christie to pick a pro-background check senator
In an email to supporters this afternoon, Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun control group formed by former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, urged New Jersey governor Chris Christie to appoint an interim senator who supports background checks.
"Senator [Frank] Lautenberg cannot be replaced," Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, wrote in the email under the subject line "Chris Christie's Big Decision." More
Chris Christie calls a special Senate election, ducks a Cory Booker problem
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced this afternoon that he will call a special election to replace senator Frank Lautenberg, who died yesterday morning. More
Frank Lautenberg's seat; Merryl Tisch's approval
From Capital
In replacing Frank Lautenberg, Chris Christie will have to balance the political imperatives of 2013 and 2016. [Reid Pillifant]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a detailed plan to help homeowners rebuild from Hurricane Sandy. [Dana Rubinstein]
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Lautenberg's death leaves Chris Christie with potentially messy options
The death of Senator Frank Lautenberg presents a political quandary for Gov. Chris Christie. More
Cuomo lags Christie in a national Democratic poll, but he won't always be this retiring
Christie is better known that Cuomo, and Cuomo has the power to change that whenever he wants. More
As Cuomo evolves on medical marijuana, Savino urges him to hurry up
Governor Andrew Cuomo said today that he does not support "medical marijuana at this point," but also said that "the situation is an evolving one." More
(2)Josh Margolin hired away from the 'New York Post' by ABC
Josh Margolin, who helped write the book about the pervasiveness of public corruption in New Jersey and has had several front-page scoops since joining the New York Post's City Hall bureau from the Star Ledger in late 2010, has been hired away by ABC News. More
(1)Cuomo edges a less-known Christie in a presidential poll of New Yorkers
A new Quinnpiac poll of New York State voters shows New Yorks' Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo leading New Jersey's Republican governor Chris Christie 46-38 percent, in a theoretical head-to-head matchup for the presidency. More
(2)Sunday shows: Romney and Rodman try to explain
On Sunday morning, four months after Mitt Romney badly lost an election he thought he'd win, the former Massachusetts governor sat down with Fox News for his first television interview about what went wrong and what his role might be in the Republican Party's future.
"I recognize that I lost, so I'm not going to be the leader of the Republican Party," he said. "Other people will take that mantle. But I want to have influence on getting our party into a position where we can be successful in solving the problems the country has." More
A joke about Cuomo's Christie-esque ambition
Here's Republican state senator Andrew Lanza, making a 2016 joke in the run-up to Governor Andrew Cuomo's speech on Staten Island yesterday.
So much for scripting introductory remarks.
Governors swamp the Sunday shows, and try to wedge their way into 2016
With the National Governor's Association holding its annual meeting in Washington this weekend, the Sunday shows were stocked with state executives, some of whom were clearly auditoning for a part in all the drama leading up to 2016.
The most conspicuous was Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who appeared on "Meet the Press" alongside Massachusetts' Democratic governor Deval Patrick. More
Christie answers a question about fat jokes with a donut
While David Letterman was winding up a question about how New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie feels about being the punchline for a lot of fat jokes last night, Christie pulled a donut from his suit pocket and took a bite from it.
"I didn't know this was going to be this long," Christie deadpanned, to Letterman's amusement.
"All kidding aside is it an issue or is it not an issue," Letterman said. "Tell me how you see things." More
Exit everyman: How the Jersey Democratic bosses destroyed Dick Codey and unleashed Chris Christie
They won’t say it publicly, but there is fear, genuine fear, among New Jersey Democrats that this year’s gubernatorial election will produce a Republican landslide not seen since the Tom Kean-era, threatening Democratic control of the legislature and key county offices. More
(5)Chris Christie now in Clinton 2016 territory, but weak among Republicans
New Jersey governor Chris Christie is the only Republican who comes close to Hillary Clinton in a new national survey from Public Policy Polling.
Clinton bests him 44-42 in a highly hypothetical 2016 race. More
