Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie may have a conservative media problem.
It’s conventional wisdom that GOP candidates will always be able to find some sympathy on talk radio or Fox News, even if they are covered less favorably in the national media. But some conservative hosts indicate that may not be true for Christie, who officially declared his White House ambitions on Tuesday.
“I had a radio program, I tried to get him on,” Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said on Fox’s “The Five” after Christie’s announcement. “He has shunned friendly media. Friends I’ve talked to say his press office doesn’t even return calls. Even as recently as this week. Is he really serious about this? There’s been this sort of New Jersey-esque, sort of like blocking of friendly outlets.”
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, where all of the Republican White House hopefuls spoke in February, popular conservative radio hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity said similar things.
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