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How to run against Trump? GOP considers lessons from 2016
How to run against Trump? GOP considers lessons from 2016,Chris Christie, one of the only 2016 presidential candidates to seriously consider taking on Donald Trump again, says he and his fellow Republican rivals made a strategic error in that race. Instead of going after Trump directly, Christie said, each hoped to winnow the GOP field before taking on the combative outsider. More than seven years later, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to run against Trump, a calculation that’s only become more complicated with an indictment of the former president by a Manhattan grand jury.

How to run against Trump? GOP considers lessons from 2016

Chris Christie, one of the only 2016 presidential candidates to seriously consider taking on Donald Trump again, says he and his fellow Republican rivals made a strategic error in that race. Instead of going after Trump directly, Christie said, each hoped to winnow the GOP field before taking on the combative outsider. More than seven years later, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to run against Trump, a calculation that’s only become more complicated with an indictment of the former president by a Manhattan grand jury.