Christie repentant, lays blame on key aide
He started with the most contrite apology of his political career. Next he said he had fired a trusted senior staff member, calling her a liar and saying her actions were stupid. Then he said he had dismissed his campaign manager and close political adviser.
And finally, he ended the day in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, where he reached a détente with the mayor who had become his most vocal critic.
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Through it all, Governor Christie displayed the full range of emotions that have endeared him to and sometimes alienated him from voters and all of it before the cameras. Christie laid out a message to the public that, win or lose, he was banking his political future on that larger-than-life persona, the one that put him in the upper ranks of national politics until a traffic jam that most Jersey of lifes troubles threatened his popularity and his clout.
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