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The Christie Tracker
Find WNYC’s archival coverage of the former New Jersey governor, his ill-fated presidential run and the Bridgegate scandal under the "stories" tab. Our weekly Christie Tracker Podcast ran for three years, between January, 2015 and January, 2018. It was hosted by David Furst and featured award-winnin...
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72 EpisodenThe Christie Tracker Podcast: And That's a Wrap
OK, you caught us. The Christie Tracker Podcast actually wrapped up back in November of 2016 - after the Bridgegate trial of former Christie staffer,...
The Christie Tracker Podcast Answers Your Questions
The Bridgegate trial is done. Governor Christie is heading into his last year in office. And the Christie Tracker Podcast is closing up shop.
Be...
The Christie Tracker Podcast: Bridgegatepalooza!
The Trial is done. The guilty verdicts are in. So in an effort to turn the page on this chaotic chapter in New Jersey's history, we present Bridgegate...
The Christie Tracker Podcast: The Bridgegate Trial Verdicts
After seven weeks, the Bridgegate trial is done and the verdicts are in. Former Chris Christie staffer, Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, the former...
The Christie Tracker Podcast: The Bridgegate Trial - Week 7
Now in week 7, the Bridgegate trial is in the hands of the jury. And so as we wait for verdicts for former Christie staffer Bridget Kelly and former P...
The Christie Tracker Podcast: The Bridgegate Trial - Week 6
Former Christie staffer Bridget Kelly finally hit the stand in week 6 of the Bridgegate Trial. Governor Christie has always maintained that he had no...
The Christie Tracker Podcast: The Bridgegate Trial - Week 5
Bill Baroni, the former Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority was on the stand this week in the Bridgegate trial. He, and former Christie st...
The Christie Tracker Podcast: The Bridgegate Trial – Week 4
We're only a third of the way through the Bridgegate trial.
Testimony from the prosecution's star witness David Wildstein wrapped up last week....
The Christie Tracker Podcast: The Bridgegate Trial – Week 3
It was another busy week in Christie world.
Over the past several days, Governor Christie announced a deal to allow a gas tax hike to pay for tr...
The Christie Tracker Podcast: The Bridgegate Trial – Week 2
Week 2 of the Bridgegate trial featured more show-stopping testimony from David Wildstein.
The former Port Authority official who has pleaded gu...
Christie Tracker Podcast - The Bridgegate Trial: Week 1
The 'Bridgegate trial' has begun for former Christie staffer, Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, the former Deputy Executive Director of the Port Aut...
The Christie Tracker: The Bridgegate Trial
We've been on hiatus for a while.
But summer break is over. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band wrapped up their tour. Beach season is done....
Governor Christie's Achilles Heel
From Bridgegate to the Chairman’s Flight... and from the scuttling of the ARC Hudson River tunnel project to the precarious finances of state’s deplet...
Will Chris Christie Do Anything to Stay Out of Jersey?
Depending on who you were talking to, it was either the most shocking thing the governor has ever done or not surprising at all. But certainly everyon...
New Bi-weekly Schedule for Christie Tracker Podcast
With Governor Christie out of the presidential race and his budget speech out of the way, the Christie Tracker Podcast is shifting to a bi-weekly sche...
Shorn of 'Candidate' Status, Governor Christie Reemerges
It was the first sight most New Jerseyans had of Chris Christie since he dropped out of the presidential race. The governor was back behind a podium,...
Christie's Presidential Dreams Meet Cold Granite
Chris Christie has suspended his campaign for the White House. In a statement he said, "I leave the race without an ounce of regret."
This week,...
How Does Chris Christie Rebound From 10th Place?
After months of campaigning, primary season just got real.
And real ugly for Team Christie.
Iowa dealt a major blow to the guy hoping to b...
Christie: Mopping Up the Political Damage After Blizzard
First, Governor Christie says he’s not coming back to New Jersey. Then, he arrives in time for the winter storm and says he was planning to all along...
Katz on Christie: The Book
Wait no more, Gov.
American Governor: Chris Christie’s Bridge to Redemption is officially on the shelves this week.
Back when he inked a d...
Christie’s State of the State: “I Will Never Stop Fighting for the People Who Elected Me”
He's fighting an uphill presidential campaign and still losing popularity at home, but Governor Christie reminded the state house – and a national aud...
Christie: Just Dropping In to See What State My State is In
261.
That’s how many days Governor Christie spent out of New Jersey in 2015.
And according to New Jersey Public Radio’s Matt Katz, “There’...
Christie in College: A Chief Executive in Training
Ah, schooldays. Things were different for Chris Christie back at the ol’ University of Delaware. The carefree scamp would spend his days building coal...
Christie's Head Fakes
In basketball, the head fake can be used to trick a defender. Essentially, you pretend like you're gonna go one way... and then you do something else....
Governor Christie’s Debate Performance: In 140 Characters
GOP debate #5 is a wrap.
Governor Christie was back on the main stage and needed to make the most of this moment. With less than two months to g...
Chris Christie's New Suitor and the 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Debate
The Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran has been locked in a war of words with Grant Bosse, Editorial Page Editor of New Hampshire’s Union Leader, over the paper’...
Christie: 'Our World War Is Happening Right Now'
For months, pundits have been saying that Governor Christie’s presidential aspirations were dead in the water. But lately, whispers about a potential...
Christie's Bold Defense of Muslim-Americans (Four Years Ago)
From Governor Christie’s comments about Syrian orphans to Donald Trump’s assertion that he saw thousands cheering in Jersey City on 9/11, New Jersey h...
Christie Closes Door to Syrian Refugees
In the days following the terrorist attacks in Paris, shock and sorrow quickly shifted to outrage and blame on the Republican campaign trail. From Don...
Christie the Big Kid at the Table
It’s been a bumpy month on the Christie Campaign Express.
At first, things were looking up. There was a good response to his 3rd debate performa...
Christie and Cruz: Fighting to Move from the Edge of the Stage
Senator Ted Cruz. Governor Chris Christie.
Neither man lacks for confidence. Or ambition. Both are fighting for a shot to take on the Democratic...
Chris Christie's Watershed Moment
52 times the New Jersey legislature attempted to override a Christie veto.
52 times it ended in failure, with nearly every Republican legislator...
A Campaign Stuck in First Gear
Is the campaign money bag half full or half empty? Or wait, maybe the bag is just way too small.
Reaction to the first fundraising reports from...
Chris Christie: The Springsteen Tracker
To understand Chris Christie you need to consider his Bruce Springsteen obsession.
Come on, the man has been to over 130 Bruce shows.
This...
Hurricane Dodged, but Christie Can’t Avoid Rough Political Weather at Home
It’s enough to make a guy want to spend some quality campaign time in New Hampshire.
Governor Christie spent much of last week preparing for a n...
The Untouchable Mr. Fox
Jamie Fox. Christie cabinet member, former United Airlines lobbyist, long-time New Jersey political operative.
Oh, and a guy with connections to...
Governor Christie: Humble Servant of the Middle Class
After a few weeks as "The Law and Order Guy" and "That Guy Who Wants to Use FedEx to Track Immigrants," Governor Christie is shape-shifting again. Thi...
The Chairman's Plight
The scrapheap of officials laid to waste by Bridgegate and its spin-off scandals expanded last week to include three United Airlines executives.
...
Two Years After Bridgegate: The Truth Serum Question
It's hard to pinpoint exactly why Governor Christie’s presidential campaign hasn’t caught fire. But his decline in the polls started with a traffic ja...
When You're Down in the Polls, It Helps to Have a Superfan
The summer of 2013. It doesn’t seem that distant. But it might as well be a political lifetime ago for Chris Christie.
This was post-Sandy and p...