By Tom Moran | Star-Ledger Editorial Board
Liz Cheney said yesterday that she intends to swallow hard and pull the lever for Kamala Harris in November, making good on her stated belief that Donald Trump is a maniac who has a knife to the throat of our democracy.
“I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in other people’s names, especially in swing states,” she told students at Duke University. “Not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”
Can Chris Christie show that same kind of courage, that same patriotism? Like Cheney, he tells us Trump is a low-down hustler who is unfit for office. But unlike Cheney, he has not done all he can to stop him. She’s jumped into the fight. He hasn’t.
And let’s remember, he is the Dr. Frankenstein who helped create this monster, the first major Republican to endorse Trump in 2016, and his debate coach in the 2020 campaign. He owes America a debt for that.
But so far, he’s been playing it safe. The easy option is to vote for Ronald Reagan, his hero. That would keep his own fingerprints of the gun this time. But if he really believes what he says about Trump, then it’s a cop out of historic dimensions.
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