The Daily Rundown   |  February 26, 2013

The Gaggle: No CPAC for Christie

The Gaggle talks about why Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., did not receive an invite to CPAC and give their shameless plugs.

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>>> mark murray , former senator blank lincoln, conservative political action committee . it it used to be established outside the republican party . this year we were commenting it looked like every major republican party was invited, sarah palin , john mccain , but one person they did not invite was chris christie . what's up?

>> you've got a very popular in his state pro life tax cutting governor who has taken on the public sector. so of course you don't want him. and this is a group that has invited the prime minister of canada who has also been a very successful candidate for canada.

>> by the way, to the left of every --

>> exactly.

>> it is -- christie, i'm sure in an election year, he doesn't mind. he doesn't want to be seen as too partisan.

>> chuck, msnbc was the first to report that last week that christie wasn't getting invited to the cpac. you're right. he has no election this year. his approval ratings are in the 70%. that's where you want to be when you're facing re-election. but you never know, when you're running for new jersey governor, you probably don't want to be at some place like cpac.

>> right now do you think democrats be running against a guy in a blue state ?

>> somebody what is willing to sole have the problems. these ideology stuff --

>> some point you wonder when voters are going to be turned off by it. they haven't yet.

>> shameless plugs. blanche, you first.

>> small business . my mom is watching today.

>> well, good.

>> she has operated a small business for years.

>> what's the business?

>> farming. farming. yes. and these gals have got to do something about the regulations.

>> we have a brand-new msnbc wall street journal poll coming out at 6:30 tonight. tune in.

>> go to bloomberg view and find out what reince priebus told me about the future of his party and what kind of name reince is.

>> all right. that's it. much more on that brand-new " wall street journal " poll. coming up,