The none-too-subtle cover story on the latest issue of TIME. Photo: Facebook.com/TIME
President Obama hasn’t even started his second term as president, but from all appearances it looks like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is already positioning himself for the 2016 presidential campaign.
Of course, Christie told ABC News this morning that it would be "crazy" for anybody to try to "plan four years from now."
He added: "What I want to do now is be the governor of New Jersey, as I said, for the last three years, I’d like to do it for the next four."
But with Christie’s face gracing the cover of this week’s TIME magazine and his approval rate soaring in his home state, it’s hard to take him at his word.
A new Fairleigh Dickenson poll shows Christie crushing three potential Democratic challengers in his re-election later this year. With no formidable opponents, its easy to understand why Christie might embrace the national attention. And with Republicans currently facing a national leadership void in their party, Christie appears willing to fill it.
He even hinted at possible national ambitions, noting he'll be more prepared to run in 2016 than he was in 2012.
"I will be more ready than I was in 2012 because I will have done my job for longer and hopefully gotten better."
Taegan D. Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political websites. He also runs Wonk Wire and the Political Dictionary. Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and COO of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. senator and governor. Goddard is also co-author of You Won — Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and Christian Science Monitor. Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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