A voter at a precinct in Pontiac, S.C., for South Carolina’s Democratic primary in February. A Supreme Court ruling on Monday upheld the “one person, one vote” principle.
Credit
Travis Dove for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that states may count all residents, whether or not they are eligible to vote, in drawing election districts. The decision was a major statement on the meaning of a fundamental principle of the American political system, that of “one person one vote.”
As a practical matter, the ruling mostly helped Democrats.
Until this decision, the court had never resolved whether voting districts should contain the same number of people, or the same number of eligible voters. Counting all people amplifies the voting power of places that have large numbers of residents who cannot vote legally — including immigrants who are here legally but are not citizens, illegal immigrants, children and prisoners. Those places tend to be urban and to vote Democratic.
Breaking News Alerts
Sign up to receive an email from The New York Times as soon as important news breaks around the world.
Had the justices required that only eligible voters could be counted, the ruling would have shifted political power from cities to rural areas, a move that would have benefited Republicans.
The court did not decide whether other ways of counting were permissible. “We need not and do not resolve,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for six justices, whether “states may draw districts to equalize voter-eligible population rather than total population.”
The case, Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, was a challenge to voting districts for the Texas Senate that was brought by two voters, Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger. They were represented by the Project on Fair Representation, a small conservative advocacy group that successfully mounted an earlier challenge to the Voting Rights Act.
Write A Comment
The group is also behind a pending challenge to affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
Does anybody know what the ballot deadlines for the various states are, vis-a-vis someone doing a third party run?
I could google it, but why do that when someone on TOR will do it for me?
LOS ANGELES >> The names of five candidates will appear on California's Republican presidential primary ballot for the June 7 primary, including two who have suspended their campaigns, Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced.
Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson and former Virginia Gov.
Wow. Most relativists are a little gun-shy about following relativism to its logical conclusion. I guess he's right when he says he has no shame.
Most civilized people agree that so-called “fat-shaming” has no place in our modern world. The unwritten rules of polite society say that a person’s appearance is out of bounds for criticism. That feels right to me.
But we can still shame people for being stupid, evil, or lazy. The thinking here – as far as I can tell – is that people don’t have a lot of choice about their appearance, but they can control their actions and their knowledge. We can criticize people’s choices, but not their genetic makeup.
But there’s one problem with that rule. I’ve never seen a dumb person become smart, an evil person become good, or a lazy person become ambitious. I’m sure it happens to some degree, but generally speaking, it isn’t a thing.
We have some control over our intelligence, ambition, and character, but not much. On the whole, dumb people stay dumb, lazy people stay lazy, and sociopaths (for example) stay evil. Biology is hard to overcome.
My moist robot filter on the world says free will is an illusion. That means nothing is worthy of shame because no one is actually choosing anything. All decisions happen the way they have to happen given the chemistry of a given situation. The laws of physics do not change based on our wants. (As far as I know.)
I was born ambitious. I have no memory of being any other way. Consistent with that observation, I have met lazy people who seem to have been born that way. Does my genetic luck with ambition give me the right to shame the people born without it? I don’t think so. I just got lucky on that one dimension.
I’m also short, bald, and near-sighted. People try shaming me for that stuff on a regular basis. But it doesn’t work because I lost all sense of shame some time ago. In my world view, shame is nothing but a filter some people put on their own observations.
Next time someone tries to shame you, just remember you’re listening to a moist robot with no free will. It takes the sting out of it.
—
I might be on CNN today with Jake Tapper but these things tend to get rescheduled based on breaking new. Follow me on Twitter for updates, or just wait for the clip. @ScottAdamsSays
UPDATE with video: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s first appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live wasn’t what you’d call a love fest. It was, however, riveting TV.
The GOP presidential hopeful, was in Los Angeles raising money, because California has the most Republicans of any state in the country – more than Texas, Cruz said. He told Kimmel about wanting to be an actor, and how he nearly dropped out of school to move to CA to pursue his dream.
“You don’t seem like an actor,” Kimmel…
by By Steve Peoples and Stephen Ohlemacher Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- He is the Republican Party's undisputed front-runner, yet Donald Trump's White House aspirations may now depend on a messy fight for delegates he is only now scrambling to address.
Trump's campaign on Monday vowed to pursue legal action against the Republican National Committee to protect his recent victory in Louisiana, one of many states that feature complicated rules allowing campaigns to influence the presidential nominating process weeks or months after their votes have been counted.
The former Republican presidential nominee joked about the billionaire’s foreign-born wives.
“Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won’t do,” Romney reportedly quipped at the annual NRCC dinner.
Mitt Romney at @NRCC dinner: "Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there are really are jobs Americans won't do."
"The crowd knows that violence works against them. But only because social media is watching so closely."
Insert obligatory 1984 Big Brother reference here.
The founders of the United States designed a system in which voters elected smart people and those smart people ran the country. They called it a republic.
Over time, money corrupted the system. Rich people became the real power. The rich controlled the media, and that was enough to control the minds of voters. Let’s call that system a type of “economic fascism.” By that I mean the real power is the top 1% (as opposed to one dictator) and the rest of the country has no real power.
Society has improved a great deal under economic fascism. Slavery ended, women gained equal rights, and gays are getting married. We also have lots of social nets and whatnot. But that stuff only happens because the top 1% is okay with it. As long as the rich get richer, the people at the top are fine with any other change. The rich don’t want the poor to riot, so some policies have to favor the masses. Drug cartels operate the same way. They provide social services to put the locals on their side.
In 2016, our form of government took a new turn. Thanks to social media, the most persuasive ideas can always find an audience. The top 1% are no longer the gate keepers of truth with their control of the media. Now any good persuader can rise to the top of the influence pile. All he or she needs is a smartphone.
In our new form of government, a trained persuader such as Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders gains popularity on social media and forces the traditional media to fall in line. That form of government looks more like populism. The majority has more control than it did under a republic or under economic fascism.
But what about the tyranny of the majority problem? Will social media lead to mob rule because the majority has too much power?
I think the Internet and social media solve for that problem. Consider what is happening at Trump rallies. The entire public is watching every skirmish and dust-up at those rallies. The fear is that the small scuffles will escalate to something terrible. But social media solves for that. Every person at a Trump rally knows the world is watching. And it isn’t just big media that is watching. Every phone in every pocket is a direct link to the world. And Trump supporters know their candidate would be done if a big riot broke out. Social media has already taken control of Trump rallies. We should expect to see more scuffles and punches from individual idiots, but no widespread rioting. The crowd knows that violence works against them. But only because social media is watching so closely.
As a general rule, evil grows where no one is looking. If it grows too big before anyone notices, then it is hard to put the genie back in the bottle. But social media is the ultimate eye on evil. It spots evil fast and shines the light of public scrutiny on it. Is that enough to say our new system is better than the last?
I don’t know. But the bar was low. Economic fascism doesn’t seem too hard to beat.
Inspiration for this topic from Naval Ravikant’s article American Spring.
UPDATE SUNDAY CBS News reporter Sopan Deb describes his Friday encounter with Chicago police in an interview with CBS's Face the Nation. Deb says an officer "bashed my face into the street" as he was filming other officers' encounter with a protester. Deb, who was charged with resisting arrest, also describes the scene inside the canceled Trump rally, with the mostly-student protesters yelling "vulgar chants in multiple languages." Watch the interview below.
UPDATE with vi…
Hollywood is going to vote for Donald Trump, said Donald Trump this morning at a news conference.
Trump says his Hollywood pals have told him, “Everyone out there is voting for you, but they’re not going to admit it.”
“I say, ‘Why? Aren’t you proud? I have a tough stance on crime. I have a tough stance on borders.’ They all know I’m right. But they’re liberal people, and they don’t want to admit it.”
“But, you know what? They’re going to vote for Trump,” the GOP…
Like many young people (and, unfortunately these days, some not so young), my first job was working at a McDonalds franchise outlet, which for me meant a store in Beaverton Oregon. Other than picking strawberries in the summer, which I guess is considered illegal child labor now, I had no experience whatever, but that was not a problem.They needed cheap bodies (I started at $1.55 an hour) and being in high school, I needed a flexible schedule and a way to make a few extra bucks.
Note that I worked for McDonald's in prehistoric times, as in the halcyon pre-breakfast, pre-frozen fries (one of my jobs was slicing and "blanching" hundreds of pounds of potatoes daily) era. Just after the earth-shattering introduction of the ever popular Quarter Pounder. Ahh, for those simpler times.
It was all brand new to me. When I sat down for my job interview, the manager took notes on a specially prepared form, writing his name in the spot marked "manager": "Head." I thought he was joking or trying to make a point, like "get it, I'm the head manager", until I found out his name was actually Lee Head. I think he enjoyed my momentary confusion. Perhaps that very smart and smug young fellow is still working there. We can only hope.
I was also hired back when they still had the three color "hat system" that clarified your status within the McDonalds ranks. A white hat was a base trainee, unworthy of respect. A blue hat was for a trained employee, a status that mostly meant they took just a little less shit. A red hat was for managers.
Ahh, the managers. Now there was a bunch. When you're 16, 22 year olds in authority positions might as well be 60, but in fact, most of the management crew were indeed in their mid-twenties, maybe one or two in their late teens. Being it was my first job it was difficult for me to pass judgement at the time, but looking back? It's clear these people hated their positions with a red hot passion. There were also occasional visits from the owners (his name was "Ollie") and the district manager, a burly graduate of McDonalds University who liked to order trainees to get on their knees to scrub the floor so he could put his foot on their back. I am not kidding.
Looking back, it's clear that some of their managerial methods would not pass muster in the modern work place. For instance, disciplining an employee by throwing a tray of hamburgers in their face. It happened to me one day when, after being accused of not fully cooking the burgers, I said "no, they're done." This particular manager clearly did not like being contradicted, which prompted the reaction, but that he did it in front of a crowd of customers seemed to a little over the top. Suffice to say, the gesture provoked one of the five times I quit the McDonalds empire (I can still remember stuffing my paper blue hat into the grill's grease trough), only to return months later to make some easy money...
But those are stories for another time. Today I'm going to talk about a car-wash. Specifically, the coin-operated hand-nozzle car wash that was located directly behind this particular McDonalds location.
Remember those hats I mentioned earlier? Well, at this particular McDonalds, the managers and long time employees had come up with a unique and rather sadistic way of celebrating someone's promotion from white-hat trainee to blue-hat regular employee. They would wait for the graduate's shift to end, then forcibly drag him to the car-wash, pump quarters into the coin-op and jam the nozzle spraying scalding hot water down the initiate's pants.
Remember what I said about managers making dubious decisions? I think this one qualifies.
So my graduation day finally came. I was about to dispense with my white hat and step up into the glorious world of blue. All during that shift, the managers and other blue hats were gleefully tormenting me about the hell to come. How there would be no escape. In fact, the manager asked me to point out my car so they could box it in, forcing me to stay on site until the deed was done.
I spent my shift wondering, is this was adult life is like? Waiting for a group of work-mates, most of whom I was friendly with, to turn into snarling animals so they could force the same humiliation on me that they themselves had suffered earlier? (The answer, of course, is yes, but I was still naive back then).
Anyway, the hour neared. Tension built. When quitting time finally arrived, I punched out at the time-clock and walked outside, where a small gang had assembled. "You're not going anywhere, Verheiden," the manager snarled. "Get him!" With a jolt of adrenaline (augmented I'm sure by the gallons of shitty Coca-Cola I'd been drinking all night), I bolted across the parking lot toward my car.
Which, by the way, was not the car they had blocked in. When asked to identify my car earlier that evening, I had, of course, pointed to someone else's weather-worn beater. That car wasn't goin' anywhere.
Me? I threw myself into my '66 Dodge Wagon, gunned the engine and burned rubber across the parking lot. As my headlights washed across the back of the store, I could see disappointment and anger welling on the faces of the mob. Because tonight they would be denied their victim! Enraged, the manager somehow grabbed a pan full of water-soaking dehydrated onions and threw it across my back window, a starry burst of white and wet, but it was too little, too late. I was in the wind...
I left those onions on the car, mostly out of sloth, but also as a badge of honor. I was still picking flecks off the bumper weeks later, and loving it, because this was a total victory. They only got one shot at the car-wash torture, that was also part of the graduation protocol. So I had beaten the bastards, and in the process learned an important life lesson. When someone asks you, "is that your car?", always lie.
I would enjoy another two years, of and on, of McDonalds glory... meaning, more stories to come!
"If he were female and Asian – with exactly the same policies – would we be comparing him to Hitler every five seconds?"
YES. In fact, we would.
Can we agree that calling the candidate with German ancestry “Hitler” is racist? It sure feels that way to me. I’m about half German, same as Trump. And it feels like a racial insult to me.
I’m not easily offended, but I don’t see any other way to interpret the incessant Hitler analogies directed at Trump. If he were female and Asian – with exactly the same policies – would we be comparing him to Hitler every five seconds?
I don’t think so.
I’m not defending Trump’s policies. His views don’t align with my own. (None of the candidates agree with my crazy-ass opinions.) All I’m saying is that if you are calling the German guy Hitler, and you are not German (which somehow makes it okay), then I see you as a racist.
I’ll say again that I’m not defending anything Trump says or does in terms of policies. He’s on his own to defend that stuff. Consider me disavowed. My fascination with Trump is limited to his persuasion skills.
Now let’s talk about Hitler analogies in general.
As I have explained in this blog before, analogies are not part of reason. Sometimes things just remind you of other things. That’s the beginning and end of the story. So if your opinion of Trump, or any other candidate, rests on an analogy to Hitler, it would be fair to say you are not using rational thought.
Analogies are excellent tools for explaining a new situation for the first time. And sometimes analogies help you recognize situations that are potentially dangerous before you have all the facts. It is completely rational to use analogies in those two contexts. It is not rational to make a final decision based on an analogy.
Consider the Trump=Hitler analogy that is clogging the Internet. I’ll mention just a few flaws with the analogy.
For example, Hitler wanted to conquer other countries. Trump is opposed to war unless for defense. That’s sort of a big difference right there.
Also, Hitler tried to exterminate minorities. Trump’s policies lean pro-minority:
1. Veterans are disproportionately minorities.
2. Aborted babies are often minorities.
3. Trump wants to avoid people “dying in the streets” with no healthcare, and that benefit is good for minorities.
4. Trump wants to keep Social Security strong, which helps everyone, but mostly people at lower incomes.
5. Trump’s spokesperson is half African-American. Trump’s daughter converted to Judaism. And so on, and so on.
6. Stopping illegal immigration reduces job competition for lower-income families. Some say it also reduces violence to women of all ethnicities.
7. Trump wants citizens to be armed. Hitler didn’t want that.
I could go on. The point is that Trump’s policies are nearly the opposite of Hitler.
Unlike Hitler, Trump is happy to invite anyone with useful technical skills to the country, no matter their ethnicity. And unlike Hitler, Trump has never made reference to ethnicity. Trump often mentions countries of origin and also religion. But so far, not ethnicity. Not ever.
You might THINK Trump has said some ethnically insensitive things during this campaign, but that’s an illusion. He has railed against illegal aliens (regardless of ethnicity) and proposed a ban on Muslim immigration. I remind you that Islam is comprised of all types of ethnicities. Iranians are mostly non-Arabs, just to name one ethnic distinction.
Trump has indeed suggested discrimination against incoming Muslims. But I think you have to see this situation as a special case because Sharia law is incompatible with the Constitution of the United States. And conquering infidels is part of the Islamic belief system in some corners of Islam. If we can’t tell the good people from the bad, it boils down to national security and risk-management. And we also have to assume Trump’s “opening offer” on totally halting Muslim immigration would get negotiated down to something that looks more like a deep vetting process than a ban.
People have asked me whether Trump has made any mistakes in persuasion so far. The answer is yes, emphatically. Asking his crowds to raise their hands and take a voting pledge creates Nazi-looking optics. How in the world – you ask – could a Master Persuader make such an obvious mistake?
I can explain that.
For starters, and according to science, asking people to do something – no matter how minor – greatly increases the odds that those same people will do the next thing you ask of them. So from a persuasion standpoint, asking people to raise their hands and take a pledge is solid-gold persuasion. The only way it could go wrong is if the optics looked like the start of a Nazi movement. And …they do.
So how did Trump miss that?
Easily. We all see through our own filters. I assume Trump does not identify himself with Hitler. So from his perspective, nothing he does fits that analogy. It is only YOUR perspective that makes the voting pledge look ominous and dangerous. All Trump saw was a bunch of enthusiastic supporters.
If you are still hung up on the Hitler analogy with Trump, spend two minutes trying to make a Hitler analogy with Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Gandhi. It’s easier than you want to believe. Confirmation bias allows us to fit any observations to any hypothesis.
Although analogies are not part of reason, people do have a lot of fear about Trump. I have witnessed that fear first-hand. I’ll blog about that another time. In my opinion – and at this writing – Trump is not qualified to be president because he scares the pants off of about half the country. That’s Trump’s third-act problem. If he can’t solve it, he can’t be president.
So you might wonder how hard it would be for a Master Persuader to remove people’s fears about him in less than a year. Answer: Easy.
Most politicians couldn’t pull off that sort of persuasion. But they don’t have Trump’s tool set. The fun hasn’t even started yet. This gets better.
—
On a related note, if this were a movie script, the third-act moment was when Trump asked his crowds to raise their hands and take the pledge. That turned his already-bad image into complete poison for two-thirds of the country. No one escapes from the Hitler meme.
But escape he will. That’s what makes this such a good movie. Get your popcorn.
—
If you hate Hitler, you might like my book because I don’t mention him once.
The Republican Party establishment found an unlikely ally in its last-ditch effort to keep Donald Trump from becoming GOP nominee for POTUS: Stephen Colbert. CBS’ Late Show host last night took a super-sized look at the GOP front-runner’s Really Big Hands claim, made at last week’s GOP debate.
“I'm sure it's true. Why would a guy with a small penis put his name in giant letters on the top of a skyscraper? It's got to mean something, right?” Colbert insisted, in his first…
The adult-film actress who caused Ted Cruz’s campaign to pull an ad attacking Marco Rubio returned to Jake Tapper’s CNN show, as promised, to announce who she was endorsing for president.
Donald Trump.
Amy Lindsay , who performed in such steamy movies as Carnal Wishes, Insatiable Desires and Timegate: Tales of the SaddleTramps — but also appeared in Star Trek: Voyager and the 1996 film The Portrait of a Lady — said on The Lead with JakeTapper this afternoon she’s been a…
by By Nancy Benac and Jill Colvin The Associated Press
WASHINGTON >> Republican leaders on Sunday grappled with the prospect that the best hope for stopping Donald Trump's march to the nomination may be Ted Cruz -- the only candidate who causes as much heartburn among party elites as the billionaire businessman, if not more.
The Texas senator split contests with Trump in Saturday's voting, bolstering his argument that only he can defeat the real estate mogul.
Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t exactly joined the Dump Trump party, but today the former Governator officially endorsed Ohio governor John Kasich for the Republican presidential nomination – snubbing the man who inaugurated the Celebrity Apprentice gig that Schwarzenegger will assume this spring. "I want John Kasich to be the next nominee of the Republicans and also to be the next president of the United States," said Schwarzenegger in a Snapchat video posted late this morni…
RIP, Gary. I met him once, when the producers of BSG gave me a tour of the set in Vancouver. He was a very nice, very friendly man.
Gary Hutzel, four-time Emmy winning visual effects artist whose work helped define much of the Next Generation era of Star Trek and later, the Battlestar Galactica reboot, died Thursday in Vancouver from an apparent heart attack. He was 60.
Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Hutzel attended The Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, studying photography. His career in entertainment took off in 1987 when he joined the Star Trek: The Next Generation as a VFX Coordinator. He…
NEW YORK -- You could say politics has reached a new low with the "small hands" remarks from the Republican debate.
But the exchange over the size of Donald Trump's, um, hands is merely the most recent vulgarity in American politics. The history of crude remarks goes back to the Founding Fathers.
Spurred by Donald J. Trump’s mounting victories, a small but influential — and growing — group of conservative leaders are calling for a third-party option to spare voters a wrenching general election choice between a Republican they consider completely unacceptable and Hillary Clinton.
Does this sound like anyone you know who is running for president in 2016?
He is credibly credited with being actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism. He probably does not know himself just what he wants to accomplish. The keynote of his propaganda in speaking and writing is violent anti-Semitism. His followers are nicknamed the "Hakenkreuzler." So violent are Hitler's fulminations against the Jews that a number of prominent Jewish citizens are reported to have sought safe asylums in the Bavarian highlands, easily reached by fast motor cars, whence they could hurry their women and children when forewarned of an anti-Semitic St. Bartholomew's night.
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.
A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."
Late-night shows taped before Super Tuesday primary results were in, but that didn't stop hosts from joking about it. Late Night's Seth Meyers noted the storms in some states voting, while The Daily Show's Trevor Noah compared Donald Trump to General Zod.
Hillary Clinton's 2003 book Living History is full of childhood photos of the Democratic frontrunner, but one featuring Clinton with her childhood pet has caught eyes recently. In the photo, Clinton is holding a cat named Isis. Late Show's Stephen Colbert joked about the obvious connections to terrorism Tuesday night, comparing Isis to Jimmy Carter's pet Ayatollah Khatmenei, as well as comparing cats to the Islamic State group. After all, they both both viral videos on the Internet and they both poop in sand.
"If Mr. Trump should win the presidency, he might want to consider Mr. Christie for transportation secretary, since he already knows so much about traffic patterns on commuter bridges."
Donald Trump and Chris Christie Start a Bully Bromance
Those who have witnessed Gov. Chris Christie’s performance both in New Jersey and in the national arena over the past couple of years almost could have seen Friday’s sweaty embrace of Donald Trump coming. Almost.
Once upon a time, the governor put his state first, for good and ill. Today, he is driven by twin demons: national political ambition and vengefulness. By cozying up to Mr. Trump, he feeds both.
Having staked his presidential hopes on the New Hampshire primary only to finish in sixth place, and facing the end of a so-far disastrous second term as governor, Mr. Christie needs a new job. Perhaps he’s hitching his ambitions to Mr. Trump because he’s promised to make him a winner, like Mr. Trump promises America. Mr. Trump, at least, has managed to do what Mr. Christie couldn’t: hoodwink his way to the front of the Republican presidential pack.
Consistency has never been Mr. Christie’s strong suit, and that showed in his endorsement on Friday. During the final days of his failed campaign, Mr. Christie said this of Mr. Trump: “We are not electing an entertainer in chief. Showmanship is fun, but it is not the kind of leadership that will truly change America.” On Friday he said of Mr. Trump: “He’s a good friend. He’s a strong and resolute leader and he is someone who is going to lead the Republican Party to victory in November.”
Heinous politics and deviant personalities aside, how could anyone consider voting for an obese or pancaked comb-over for president! What a...
J D R
Oh, please, NYT. Stop acting surprised and shocked. This was predicted and foreseen. It's not any less horrible but it's not exactly...
Patrick
Ya' know what? I don't want us attacked and if any of this crop of Republican bullies wins the Presidency, I anticipate we will be.
See All Comments
Write a comment
Mr. Christie’s good friend is the enemy of his enemy. Marco Rubio’s attack ads helped Mr. Christie along to defeat. He started to take his revenge on the debate stage in New Hampshire by savagely mocking Mr. Rubio for his robotic performance. Now Mr. Trump, embarrassed by Mr. Rubio’s slashing ridicule in Thursday night’s forum, is giving Mr. Christie a chance to finish the job. They lost no time about it on Friday, spinning up a medley of playground insults toward the Florida senator.
The bombastic governor may not fully realize that while he damaged Mr. Rubio in New Hampshire with his attack, it also showed voters who Mr. Christie really is. He may help his new best frenemy forever take Mr. Rubio down, but it’s near certain that Mr. Christie will further cement his national reputation as a venal, vindictive political bully in the process. His endorsement has already demonstrated that Mr. Christie will say anything in service of his ambition. Asked what he hopes to get in return, Mr. Christie played coy, saying that after his term ends in 2018, he wants to “go into private life and make money like Trump.”
After his performance on Friday, Mr. Christie had better hope that Mr. Trump, wherever he winds up, can find a little something for his new apprentice to do. If Mr. Trump should win the presidency, he might want to consider Mr. Christie for transportation secretary, since he already knows so much about traffic patterns on commuter bridges.
Donald TrumpCruz suggests O'Reilly moderate one-on-one debate with Trump Romney mocks Trump at GOP dinner Republicans demand shift in Obama’s ISIS strategy MORE at a GOP dinner Tuesday night. 
