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Chris Christie
Less than a week after his Virginia tea party straw poll victory, Republican supporters have launched a “Draft Chris Christie for President” website. The freshmen governor from New Jersey has been reluctant to show interest in running for the higher office, but his popularity nationally has continued to grow (he was just in Iowa campaigning for Republican gubernatorial hopeful Terry Branstad).
Politics Daily’s Matt Lewis reports former New Jersey Republican Assembly Executive Director Donald Sico runs the website, having no official ties to Christie or the New Jersey Republican Party.
The rather simple website — with the masthead complete with a mosaic that includes Christie, the White House, the American flag and the Statue of Liberty — has only one post entitled, “Ask Yourself: If Not Chris, Then Who?”
Before delving into the different popular choices for the Republican nod for president and their shortcomings Sico writes, “In 2012, our Nation will be at a crossroads and facing the most important election of a generation. Our ‘choice’ will dictate our future for a long, long time. Are there many of you out there who do not now believe that the collective ‘choice’ made by Americans in 2008 has put us on the path to fiscal ruin? In 2012 we get to change all that.”
The main objective of the site is to collect the names of supporters to show the governor the support behind his candidacy. Sico does not request money, but merely asks supporters to fill out a form.
“We have to make him run because, quite frankly, he is the right person for the job at the right time,” Sico said announcing the site. “America has never needed someone with his fiscal common sense than she does right now.”
With the launch of the new site and last weekend’s straw poll victory, Christie could now emerge as a possible “dark horse candidate,” as Lewis describes, and make big headlines in the months ahead.
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