Following in the footsteps of Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), former Saturday Night Live star Joe Piscopo said he was seriously considering running for governor of New Jersey next year, a decision he would probably make in January.
“They just want to see change. They want us to rip up Trenton inside out and backwards,” Piscopo is quoted as saying. The problem for Piscopo is he would run as a Republican, and Chris Christie has been governor since 2009. He still has another year left in office, but he is already a lame duck in large part because of Bridgegate. Christie received a 19 percent approval rating in a new Quinnipiac University poll, the lowest of any governor in that poll’s history. That kind of political environment would make it very difficult for any Republican to run.
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