Chris Christie has a super PAC supporting his potential run for president. Word is that he will enter the Republican primary next Tuesday in New Hampshire. The PAC is laying the groundwork for the announcement.

The super PAC, Tell It Like It Is, has brought on Brian Jones to run the PAC’s effort. Jones advised the late Senator John McCain’s presidential run in 2008 and Mitt Romney’s 2012. Those two politicians don’t exactly scream out in alignment with today’s GOP primary voter but we’ll see where this goes. The others named as people involved are all people that have been close to Christie for years.

William P. Palatucci, a longtime adviser to Mr. Christie and a Republican National Committee member, will be the chair. Another long-serving adviser to Mr. Christie, Russ Schriefer, will oversee messaging as a senior adviser; and Brent Seaborn, a veteran data guru, will focus on voter targeting.

Maria Comella, an adviser who also was chief of staff to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, and Mike DuHaime, Mr. Christie’s top political strategist in 2016, are expected to run an eventual campaign if Mr. Christie announces as expected. Anthony Scaramucci, the hedge fund adviser who served for less than two weeks as a communications director in the Trump White House and has become a vocal Trump critic, has said he will support Mr. Christie if he runs.

Frankly, it’s hard for me to take a primary challenger seriously that is working with a former Cuomo person. What lane is Christie hoping to run in? He hopes to appeal to old-school, traditional Republicans. That’s fine but are there enough of them left to win an early state? Which state would it be? He is said to be focusing on New Hampshire. He wants to throw a wrench into Trump’s glide to the nomination, at least as it is standing now. He sees Trump’s big lead and wants to create chaos to try to stop him.

He’s a bitter man, that’s clear, when it comes to Trump. He ran in 2016 and after he played a big role in taking out Marco Rubio, he was not long for the primary himself. He staked his success in the primary on New Hampshire that year, too. Christie came in sixth in New Hampshire. In the 2016 race, Christie was a candidate that had a following as the former governor who wasn’t afraid to hold town halls and verbally smack down teacher union activists. Republicans appreciated someone who would speak up when most Republican candidates were trying to be polite or go along to get along with Democrats. Christie is known as someone who speaks out.

Christie has flip-flopped back and forth so many times on his support for Trump that it is hard to keep up. He ran against him and then when Trump won the nomination, he was on the Trump train. He wanted a job in his administration when he won the 2016 election. When that didn’t happen, he got a gig with ABC as a contributor and now is a regular on their Sunday morning political show. Christie trashes Trump on the regular and the other panelists love it, especially the ultimate Democrat insider and operative, Donna Brazile. So, now Christie is ready to get back into the political fight by running against Trump again.

He also has criticized Ron DeSantis, especially over his war on woke Disney.

But Mr. Christie has also repeatedly taken shots at Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the distant second to Mr. Trump in most public polls, describing Mr. DeSantis’s fight with Disney in particular as an overreach.

“Where are we headed here now that, if you express disagreement in this country, the government is allowed to punish you? To me, that’s what I always thought liberals did. And now all of a sudden here we are participating in this with a Republican governor,” Mr. Christie said last month.

Is there a market for Chris Christie in today’s Republican primary? He’ll be in the same lane as Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence, if Pence gets in. They are all traditional Republicans, the likes of which have pretty much been purged from the Republican Party in primary races. Primaries cater to populist Republicans these days in most races. We’ll see if that’s true in the presidential primary this time around.

Christie permanently split from Trump when Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. Christie is going to have to explain his flip-flops on supporting Trump, if Trump remains the frontrunner.

Mr. Christie “is willing to confront the hard truths that currently threaten the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Jones said in a statement. “Now more than ever we need leaders that have the courage to say not what we want to hear but what we need to hear.”

Trump, DeSantis, and most of the other candidates have been speaking out already. Christie won’t be unique if he enters he race and creates headlines with his opinions. Trump does that daily. DeSantis doesn’t hold back and that’s true with all of them. Nikki Haley caused a stir with her mention of testing for older candidates. It’s going to take some work for Christie to gain the trust of primary voters and take down Trump a peg or two, if that is even possible for him to do. We’ve seen this show before. It didn’t end well for Christie. Christie is skipping Iowa. He knows the Northeast is his best shot.