Chris Christie, the Republican governor of Jon Stewart's home state of New Jersey, jumped in the already-very-crowded 2016 GOP presidential race Tuesday morning; Stewart got around to mocking him on Wednesday's Daily Show. In a recent survey, 65 percent of New Jersey residents said Christie would make a lousy president, he noted, but that's not the governor's biggest problem.
"Let's do some straight talk," Stewart said, laughing. "It's not that New Jerseyeans love you too much to let you go, it's that you've already finished second in the loud Northeastern egomaniac primary," with the winner being Donald Trump. "How far must Christie have fallen to be a two-term governor unfavorably compared to a perfume-selling escalateur" like Trump, he mused. But his No. 1 problem is that "he has crossed a red line for Republicans," Stewart said, committing "the unpardonable crime of treating Barack Obama like a person." Well, it's a theory. Peter Weber
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