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At RedState Gathering, the U.S. Chamber is Enemy No. 2

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during the RedState Gathering in Buckhead Friday August 7, 2015. Christie said Republicans need to embrace their pro-life choice and not run from it. The two day event will feature Republican presidential hopefuls speaking at the Intercontinental Buckhead on Peachtree Road. BRANT SANDERLIN/BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during the RedState Gathering in Buckhead Friday August 7, 2015. Christie said Republicans need to embrace their pro-life choice and not run from it. The two day event will feature Republican presidential hopefuls speaking at the Intercontinental Buckhead on Peachtree Road. BRANT SANDERLIN/BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
By Jim Galloway
Aug 7, 2015

Those of you unfamiliar with GOP factional politics might not understand that, at this RedState Gathering in Atlanta, Hillary Clinton may be Enemy No. 1.

But the U.S. Chamber is Enemy No. 2. Here’s a question that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was hit with from the audience:

"The single largest problem conservatives have with the Republican party now is that the Chamber of Commerce has too much influence. How would you give regular people more of a seat at the table?"

Here was Christie’s answer:

"...The reason we're not dealing with immigration as strongly as we need to be, in my opinion, is because of the Chamber of Commerce. They don't want to use E-Verify…."

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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