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    The 2016 Contenders: Chris Christie
    The 2016 Contenders: Chris Christie
    The 2016 Contenders: Chris Christie
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    The 2016 Contenders: Chris Christie

    By Manuel Roig-Franzia and The Washington Post

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    Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories.

    Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually over the long haul of a presidential campaign.

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s big personality and bold political instincts have put him on the national radar. His willingness to speak from the gut has enabled him to connect directly with voters on both sides of the aisle better than any of the other candidates. But that same bluntness sometimes jeopardizes the very agenda he wants to accomplish.

    In this series of eBooks, The Washington Post is exploring in-depth all these key characteristics of the leading presidential contenders, the very characteristics that could help make one of them the country’s next commander in chief—or forever sink their presidential ambitions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateJul 28, 2015
    ISBN9781682300046
    The 2016 Contenders: Chris Christie
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    Manuel Roig-Franzia

    Manuel Roig-Franzia was born in Spain and is a writer for The Washington Post Style section. His long-form articles span a broad range of subjects, including politics, power, and the culture of Washington, as well as profiling major political figures and authors. He’s covered US and international presidential campaigns, the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, and more than a dozen major hurricanes, including Katrina. Visit him at ManuelRoigFranzia.com.

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      The 2016 Contenders - Manuel Roig-Franzia

      The 2016 Contenders:

      Chris Christie

      By Manuel Roig-Franzia,

      The Washington Post

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      Diversion Books

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      Copyright © 2015 by The Washington Post

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      For more information, email info@diversionbooks.com

      First Diversion Books edition July 2015

      ISBN: 978-1-68230-004-6

      Introduction

      Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in their personal histories.

      Time and again a candidate’s greatest strength also proves to be his or her greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field tend to undermine their campaigns over the long haul.

      It’s Ted Cruz’s ramrod devotion to principle—or, its flip side, an unyielding insistence on getting his way—that could propel him to the front ranks of Republican contenders for president or render him unelectable.

      Rand Paul’s ability to sell himself as the most libertarian of the presidential candidates—defending civil liberties at home and opposing military adventurism and nation-building abroad—is what can set him apart. But those unconventional ideas could also box him in. Libertarians don’t win national elections, unless you count Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and 1804.

      Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is a man in a hurry, whose dizzying political ascent—he has never lost a race—is a testament to his quickness to spot openings and go for them. The question now, as he aims for the White House, is whether voters ultimately see Rubio as refreshing and bold, the inspiring face of a new generation—or just a promising young pol getting ahead of himself.

      It was as a lifelong broadcaster that Mike Huckabee, the onetime pastor on TV, perfected the conservative amiability that helped him win the Iowa caucuses in 2008 and could again set him apart from an increasingly crowded field of Republicans. But

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