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For Trump, bloated 2024 Republican race points to a 2016 redux
- Chris Christie, Mike Pence and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum are all set to join the race for the 2024 Republican nomination this week
- Donald Trump is already the runaway front runner and is set to benefit further as the chasing pack begins to resemble the sprawling field from 2016
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With three denizens of the Republican establishment launching presidential campaigns this week in the United States, the race for the 2024 nomination has begun to resemble the sprawling 2016 field that proved a huge boon to unfancied outsider Donald Trump.
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This time the 76-year-old tycoon is the runaway front runner but the conventional wisdom remains the same: the larger the chasing pack, the more likely he is to win by dividing the anti-Trump vote.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who was trounced by Trump in 2016, is expected to launch a fresh tilt at the White House on Tuesday, a day ahead of ex-vice president Mike Pence and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.
Christie, who will announce in New Hampshire, presents a novel challenge as the only contender so far willing to land genuinely damaging blows on Trump as he makes his case for four years in the Oval Office.
The 60-year-old Newark native has already begun needling his former friend, arguing last month that the former reality TV star and real estate tycoon was “afraid” of debating serious opponents.
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