New Jersey newspaper rips Union Leader on Christie endorsement
New Jersey Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Chris Christie may have gained a glowing endorsement from New Hampshire’s largest circulation paper, but a publication from his home state isn’t as smitten.
After the New Hampshire Union Leader published their recommendation Saturday, the New Jersey Star Ledger got in touch to ask them how much they knew about Christie’s record as governor of the Garden State.
Not a whole lot, apparently.
According to the Star Ledger, when asked about well known Jersey incidents such as Bridgegate, the Hurricane Sandy response, and credit downgrades, the Union Leader didn’t consider them relevant, or otherwise discounted their importance.
“I hate to second-guess a fellow editorial board,’’ said the Star Ledger. “But this one is national news, and the paper’s publisher has been giving interviews all over the country. So they are in the game now, not just in the audience.’’
The recipient of the Union Leader’s endorsement can receive an 11-percentage-point bump in the polls, making the backing pretty important in the pivotal early-voting state,The New York Timesreports.
The predictive power of the paper’s endorsement has been mixed, however. The Union Leader endorsed Newt Gingrich in 2012 and John McCain in 2008. Before that, the paper backed Steve Forbes in 2000, Pat Buchanan in 1996 and 1992, and Pierre du Pont in 1988.
Read the full Star Ledger piece here.
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