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Christie Can’t Endorse Haley Now

Plus: The Huge Legal Questions Ahead in 2024

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Jan 02, 2024
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A.B. STODDARD: Christie Can’t Endorse Haley Now

Republican presidential candidate former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a "Tell It Like It Is" town hall at the Bedford Event Center on December 19, 2023 in Bedford, New Hampshire. (Photo by Sophie Park/Getty Images)

SHOCK REVERBERATED ACROSS the political landscape after Nikki Haley’s deliberate omission of “slavery” when asked the cause of the Civil War. Starting on the night of December 27, when Haley gave her answer, and continuing well into the next day, reactions were swift and abundant—from television to tweets, from Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, the DNC, outraged liberals, and the online MAGA voices who never trusted Haley.

But Chris Christie was, for hours, conspicuously silent.

Perhaps Christie was spending that morning fielding calls, texts, and emails from frantic establishment Republicans who want Haley to face Trump alone in the coming primary contests.

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🚨OVERTIME🚨

Happy New Year! Let’s not talk about Ohio State’s abysmal loss to Missouri, or why Ryan Day should be fired. Instead, let’s talk about another Ryan who is near and dear to Ohio football fans. The late, great Dr. Frank Ryan, the last quarterback to win a championship with the Cleveland Browns. Here’s his highlight reel.

He died yesterday at the age of 87. And he was one of my favorite Browns QBs—and we have had a glut of them since the 1980s—and not just because he was a winner. Go read this old SI profile of him, it’s great. The guy’s brilliant.

The reason why I really like Dr. Ryan is because of what he did after football: He helped modernize Congress, having devised the way the now House votes, by computer. A system that they still use to this day. Every time I am in the House chamber and they’re voting, I think of Dr. Ryan, and I always will.

You could spend an evening going down his wormhole, so be careful. I’ve picked the best two reads for you, but there are others! I had hoped that if the Browns somehow make it to the Super Bowl, a feat they’ve never accomplished since its creation, that Ryan could see it. Alas, it was not to be. But how about Joe Flacco, huh? (Jimmy Haslam should sell the team, I maintain.)

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