Op-Ed: Chris Christie Had The ‘Worst Week In Washington’

You know you’ve had a bad week when you hear yourself uttering this sentence: “I want people to know who were concerned I was not being held hostage.”

That was Chris Christie on Thursday at a press conference in the Garden State defending his appearance on Tuesday night in Florida introducing Donald Trump after the real estate mogul’s victories on Super Tuesday.

After brief remarks touting Trump, Christie stepped to the back of the stage — just off of the Republican frontrunner’s right shoulder. And there he stood. And stood. And looked. And gaped. And stood some more.

Even as Trump was speaking, the Internet was exploding.

Mockery from the Internet is one thing. You can take that as a sort of badge of honor.

But, there was plenty of other bad news for Christie this week.

Six newspapers in his home state published an op-ed calling on Christie to resign. Here’s how the op-ed started: “We’re fed up with Gov. Chris Christie’s arrogance. We’re fed up with his opportunism. We’re fed up with his hypocrisy.”

Then there was the Fairleigh Dickinson University poll released this week that showed Christie’s already-not-good approval rating dropping six percentage points following his decision to endorse Trump last Friday.

Christie quite clearly was hoping to keep his political career alive with his surprise endorsement of Trump. Instead he may have doomed any future prospects he had. The look on Christie’s face Tuesday night was that of a man who suspects he has made a very big mistake and knows there is no easy or quick way to fix it.

Chris Christie, for watching your future pass before your eyes, you had the Worst Week in Washington. Congrats, or something.