While saying that Kamala Harris should pick Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate, Chris Christie explained how Trump created Shapiro with his ridiculous stupidity.
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CHRISTIE: It should be Josh Shapiro. I don’t think this is a hard choice. He’s a very talented politician. He’s extraordinarily popular, 65 percent job approval in a state she needs to win. This is really important. And I’ll tell you this. What — if she picks Shapiro on Tuesday, Donald Trump created Josh Shapiro.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How so?
CHRISTIE: He endorsed Mastriano, the weakest Republican candidate in that field. What it allowed Josh Shapiro to do was, instead of playing to his base to try to win a narrow election, he saw an opportunity for a coalition-building election, and that’s what he did.
Sp now he’s seen as a coalition builder because he did it, but the only reason he could do it is because Trump made another ridiculously stupid endorsement by endorsing Mastriano, who was a flawed, weak, bad candidate. If Josh Shapiro winds up winning and they — and Trump loses Pennsylvania, he can go back to his decision in 2022 as planting the seeds for that loss.
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Josh Shapiro was always going to beat Doug Mastriano. By wading into the race, Trump took what was going to be a Democratic victory and turned it into a coalition-building blowout that allowed Shapiro to define his political brand and seize the state’s moderate vote. Shapiro’s center-left coalition is still visible in his approval ratings today, and it might not have happened without Donald Trump.
A solid consensus seems to have built around Josh Shapiro being the running mate pick, but Christie was right. If Trump loses Pennsylvania, he will only have himself to blame.
