Despite Controversy, Poor Polling, Governor Hasn't Decided On Presidential Run

Despite the alleged appearance that her husband is trying to mount a comeback to make a run at the White House in 2016, Mary Pat Christie said Monday that her husband hasn’t decided yet whether or not he’ll run for president next year.

In what could be a sign that Governor Christie will re-enter the race hard, Mary Pat Christie announced last week she is leaving her $475,000-a-year job to spend more time with her family.

She told NorthJersey.com Friday was her last day as a managing director at Angelo, Gordon & Co., an investment firm in New York City. Her two children, who are 11 and 14, “really need me,” the Garden State’s First Lady said.

Governor Christie previously said he would wait until June to announce whether he is going to run. The first step in this comeback was a multicity “Tell it like it is tour” of New Hampshire, the state where all White House hopefuls begin their campaign.

“John McCain was left for dead in 2007 and 2008, and look what happened,” Bill Greiner, a New Hampshire businessman and Christie supporter, told CNN.com. “Gov. Christie is very similar to McCain. He has a willingness to tell you things whether you like it or not.”

The governor has quite an uphill climb ahead of him if he is to win the GOP nomination. Polls have shown him in the back of the Republican pack in the race for the nomination.

Indictments involving the controversial land closing at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 have could be announced any day. The accusations that Christie had knowledge of or ordered the lanes closed as political payback to local Democrats have hung over Christie’s head the entire campaign.

Prosecutors are likely to bring charges based on allegations of fraud, by which they would argue that Christie’s associates used the bridge, or the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the bi-state agency that runs it, for a purpose other than its intended one, a report by The New York Times states.

E-mails showed that Bridget Anne Kelly, the governor’s former deputy chief of staff, told former Port Authority official David Wildstein that it was “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” about two weeks before local access lanes to the GWB were closed. The closers snarled traffic in Fort Lee and the surrounding area for days. Christie fired Kelly and Wildstein resigned.

Christie said he felt “betrayed” by Kelly and that he thought the land closures were part of a traffic study.