Christie’s bridge scandal and the muddled search for a GOP nominee
By Dan Balz, WashPost, Saturday, January 11, 11:45 AM
The bridge scandal that has engulfed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has also brought more disruption to the already-muddled early stages of the Republican Party’s search for a 2016 presidential nominee. Republicans appear headed for the most wide-open and unpredictable nomination campaign in decades.
Their prospective field of candidates is mostly untested on the national stage, and a number of them spent the past year generating questions about their readiness rather than burnishing their credentials. Christie is only the latest.
But that’s not the only reason the coming GOP campaign is likely to be neither tidy nor predictable. Right now, a power struggle is underway between the party’s establishment and insurgent wings — the business elite and the populist tea party factions. No one is certain what the balance of power in the party will be when the primaries and caucuses begin.
The GOP’s nomination process threatens to be more disorderly this cycle because customs and traditions that have informally governed the party’s nomination process in past years seem to be out the window this time.
(More here.)
The bridge scandal that has engulfed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has also brought more disruption to the already-muddled early stages of the Republican Party’s search for a 2016 presidential nominee. Republicans appear headed for the most wide-open and unpredictable nomination campaign in decades.
Their prospective field of candidates is mostly untested on the national stage, and a number of them spent the past year generating questions about their readiness rather than burnishing their credentials. Christie is only the latest.
But that’s not the only reason the coming GOP campaign is likely to be neither tidy nor predictable. Right now, a power struggle is underway between the party’s establishment and insurgent wings — the business elite and the populist tea party factions. No one is certain what the balance of power in the party will be when the primaries and caucuses begin.
The GOP’s nomination process threatens to be more disorderly this cycle because customs and traditions that have informally governed the party’s nomination process in past years seem to be out the window this time.
(More here.)
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