The National Review is reporting that Christie will announce at his 1:00 PM "news" conference that he is not running for President.
This report is based on the totality of all the indicators, not inside knowledge, but is pretty believable. The report notes,
Media reports are slowly beginning to confirm the emerging Trenton consensus. The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Christie told Republican donors in California last week that he will not run. “[He] told prominent California fund-raisers and donors as recently as last Wednesday he had no plans to seek the White House,” the Journal writes. “One assurance took the form of a pledge Mr. Christie made to Meg Whitman, the newly appointed Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive, said two people familiar with the matter.”
And there's this,
Christie’s team has also not reached out, in any serious way, to early-state operatives. Phones in New Hampshire and Iowa are cold. The buzz in Jersey and inside the Beltway may be hot, but elsewhere, it seems that no one is working on jump-starting a Christie campaign on the ground. Tim Albrecht, a spokesman for Iowa governor Terry Branstad, tells the Star Ledger that “it’s been radio silent.” South Carolina consultants tell me the same.
We now have "confirmation" from the New York Times quoting two unnamed advisors of Christie. It must really, really be true. Shocking.
Damn, I was really hoping he'd run. I was rooting for the Christie/Palin ticket, or was it the Perry/Palin ticket. Oh, never mind. THere's someone else out there for sure. My neighbor is a Republican. Maybe he'll enter the fray