WATCH: Chris Christie’s First Presidential Campaign Video

He’ll make it formal on Tuesday. But this new Chris Christie video makes it clear, at long last, that he’s running for president.

CNN reports: “The video comes just two days before he’s set to make an announcement in New Jersey about his 2016 presidential decision. While he claimed on Thursday that he still hadn’t made up his mind, he’s been promoting a new website — ChrisChristie.com—this weekend and sent invitations to supporters to a ‘presidential launch announcement’ on Tuesday.”

The New York Times: “The video, titled ‘Telling It Like It Is,’ which is expected to be Mr. Christie’s slogan, affirms a basic fact about his candidacy: It will be built first and foremost on selling his personal style. There is no mention in the video of policy; Mr. Christie is at odds with some of the most conservative voters over an array of positions.”

Politico says Christie enters the race an unexpected underdog. “In place of the original plan — the one before the governor was battered by Bridgegate and the bottom fell out of his poll numbers — is a bank-shot strategy, a narrowly tailored approach that leaves Christie with little room for error,” Alex Isenstadt reports. “The hope, according to advisers — who spent the weekend in a flurry of last-minute planning meetings — is that by exceeding expectations in debates and town hall events, and by performing well in a few select primary contests, he can reestablish himself as a top-tier candidate.”

Former Inquirer reporter Matt Katz talked to the Washington Post about Christie’s candidacy: “The governor has too much confidence in his tremendous communication skills to think that the deflated poll numbers after Bridgegate are insurmountable. He believes he can win over voters one by one with townhall meetings, and watching the way he woos people in those settings he may be right. His advisers think he’s one YouTube moment or knock-out debate punch away from vaulting back to the top tier. And they’re counting on Republican primary voters paying little attention to his woes in New Jersey, like a 30 percent approval rating, economic problems and an overall slowdown in governance in his second term.”