Blog 9

When I did a Google news search for Chris Christie, there are a lot of articles that come up that having headlines indicating conflict going on between Christie and another candidate.  ABC wrote the first article and the headline reads “ Chris Christie Explains Why GOP Voters Are Supporting Donald Trump.”  Below this main article are a list of other articles that deal with both Christie and Trump. Some of the articles that stuck out to me was one about Christie warning the public of a Trump and another one has a heading that states “Chris Christie Imitates Donald Trump”, this article will be an interesting story to follow to see how Trump responds if he feels the need to do so. PoliticusUSA wrote the next main article and the heading was “GOP Email Scandal Explodes As Chris Christie Accused of Hiding 9,428 Emails And Documents”. This is not the type of publicity Chris Christie needs right now with the way his numbers have been. A scandal like this could be detrimental to the campaign and force him to drop out of the race. This also makes Christie look really bad especially of how adamant he has been for getting Hilary Clinton to release her emails.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chris-christie-imitate-donald-trump/story?id=35155377

 http://www.kmbz.com/Chris-Christie-Imitates-Donald-Trump/22170406

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/12/clinton-attack-dog-chris-christie-accused-hiding-9428-emails-documents.html

When it comes to who is covering Christie, it really is a variety of people and not just one new outlet. The most of one outlet I saw was the New York Times with two articles. The first set of articles about Christie and Trump come from Christie generating the news because he is making the statement and he was the one who chose to do the imitation. With the new scandal that has just came out this is all from the media. Christie’s campaign would not want this type of news to get out because of how badly this may hurt the campaign and now it is reminding people about the bridge scandal Christie was involved in earlier in his career as governor of New Jersey.

Currently the stories the media are writing about Christie are not setting him up for success in 2016. None of the top stories are about any policies or plans he has if he were to be elected president. With this new email scandal coming out about him, this is not the publicity that will boost him in the polls, it will only hurt the few supporters he has currently. The publicity Christie should be seeking moving forward should be stories about a great debate performance or about good things he has done on the campaign trail. Right now it seems like he is getting sucked into the Trump way and he is trying to use Trump’s strategy of arrogance in attacking him and it really does not look good for Christie in my opinion. He also needs to get more media attention on his policies because after doing this search, I do not believe I saw one posting in the top news stories about Christie’s policies. If people are unaware of good policies Christie may have, then it will make it harder for people to support him because they will not know about the good and the negative stories will overshadow the good.