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On the Republican presidential campaign trail, Governor Chris Christie brags about fending off a “crazy liberal” New Jersey legislature with more than 400 vetoes.
Not once since Christie took office in 2010 have majority Democrats mustered enough votes in both legislative houses to overturn any of those vetoes. The streak would end Thursday if enough of his own party members in the Assembly defy him on a gun-control measure he rejected in August.