“The wealthy are doing well. I’m not looking to protect them, but I’m not looking to hurt them either,” he said at an annual dinner hosted by New Jersey’s Chamber of Commerce. “We need to be lifting each other up.”
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“The fact is, there is not a finite pool of donors as some seem to suggest,” said Mike DuHaime, a close adviser to Christie. “An essential part of Gov. Christie’s appeal is his ability to bring new people into the political process, whether they be donors or activists. He has proven this ability time and again in the past, winning handily in a blue state. If he decides to run, it is clear he will have the resources to run an aggressive, winning race.”
The governor is also in Washington this weekend to attend meetings for the Republican Governors Association, which he chaired last year, and the National Governors Association.
