"Chris Christie just threw a Hail Mary in New Hampshire.
Behind in the polls, with his former staffers facing indictments in one court and his signature pension reform facing implosion in another, the New Jersey governor rushed to defend a scandal-plagued leader Granite State voters can definitely get behind: Tom Brady.
“I think there’s a little bit too much attention on this,” said Christie of reports that the New England Patriots quarterback was probably complicit in a plot to tamper with the footballs he used in games,
“I don’t think anybody is really trying to say that Tom Brady won four super bowls or became a future Hall of Famer because the balls were a little under inflated,” Christie added. “I think the media and others love for somebody who is married to a beautiful model, who is richer than you can imagine and who is a future Hall of Famer, to take a couple of shots at him? People like that every once in a while.”
Any plausible path to the nomination requires Christie to win the New Hampshire primary or come close, and the moment that Bridgegate met Deflategate may look like desperate pandering from a politician struggling to keep his presidential aspirations alive. But as Christie narrows his focus on the state and completes a two-day swing there, the state’s Republican powerbrokers say it’s too soon to count him out and that his low-cost, high-touch strategy is the right one — right down to his Brady comments." Politico
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