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Chris Christie “Slow Jams The News” With Jimmy Fallon

TPM reports: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) paid a visit to “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday to join the host in “slow-jamming” […]

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Christie Has Until 2 p.m. to Respond to Suit Challenging Special Election Date

Remember how Chris Christie scheduled a special election to replace Sen. Frank Lautenberg in October? Just three weeks before the general election already taking place? […]

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Sister of NJ’s New Senator Got Kicked Out of a Springsteen Concert for Being Drunk

New Jersey, as of today, has a new Senator. His name if Jeff Chiesa. Surely there will be more information to report about his work […]

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Chris Christie Appoints NJ AG Jeff Chiesa for Interim Senate Seat

After all the debate about whether and when Chris Christie would hold a special election for a U.S. Senator to replace the late Frank Lautenberg, […]

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Who Will Chris Christie Appoint to Frank Lautenberg’s Seat? (Hint: Probably Not a Democrat)

Sen. Frank Lautenberg was one of the last lion-heharted liberals, as obituaries have noted over the last 24 hours, but New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie—a […]

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Reminder: All Those Times Chris Christie Dissed Frank Lautenberg

Chris Christie delivered what was by all accounts a moving, spirited, and at times, funny eulogy to the late New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg this […]

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U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg Has Died at 89

89-year-old Democratic U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, the oldest member of the upper chamber, has died of pneumonia. Lautenberg was not seeking re-election in 2014. Governor […]

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Video: Christie Obliterates Obama at Boardwalk Football Game

“One and done.” Those were the immortal words from Governor Chris Christie, uttered after vanquishing Barack Obama in a friendly game of Boardwalk football toss, […]

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Reminder: The President Is Down the Shore Today

President Obama and Gov. Chris Christie are getting together today at the Shore for their first post-Sandy tete-a-tete. It won’t quite be the whirlwind tour […]

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When Snooki Met Christie

This is reality television. After a Today show appearance in Seaside Heights in which his wife pretended he wasn’t running for president, Chris Christie finally met his biggest […]

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The Obama-Christie Jersey Shore Bromance Will Resume on Tuesday

Get ready for another round of Chris Christie and Barack Obama walking side-by-side, pointing at stuff and shaking hands. The president will touch down on […]

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Chris Christie: No Link Between Climate Change and Hurricane Sandy

Yesterday at a little Sandy-related event, a WNYC reporter asked Chris Christie whether New Jersey needed to do more to prepare for climate change (and […]

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Video: Chris Christie Tells Brian Williams He’s “Just Not Very Hungry Anymore”

Well that’s got to be the first time a U.S. governor has ever uttered those words on national television. Also divulged in this interview with […]

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Check Out the GIF That Makes Chris Christie Skinny

Since Tuesday, we’ve been a nation of lap-band surgery experts, covering the medical, historical, and political implications of Chris Christie’s weight-loss gambit. Some have looked […]

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WATCH: Chris Christie’s All-Star Tribute To His Fleece

At the risk of paying too much attention to Chris Christie today, he has just released a seven-minute all-star video—Morning Joe! James Carville! Jon Bon […]