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When Charles Krauthammer speaks, people listen. And the candidate Krauthammer believes has the strongest chance right now to win the Republican nomination for president may shock some people.
On Friday’s episode of Special Report with Brett Baier, Krauthammer faced off with fellow panelists Juan Williams and Nina Easton on the regular feature “Candidate Casino.” Using $100 in poker chips, Krauthammer placed a $35 chip on Donald Trump, a $30 chip on Ted Cruz, a $25 chip on Marco Rubio, and a $5 chip on Chris Christie and a $5 chip on “Wine, Women, and Song” (Krauthammer’s candidate “to console myself.”)
The reason Krauthammer’s opinion is so important comes from who he is. Besides being a vocal critic of Trump who has tangled publicly with the billionaire since Trump’s campaign started, Krauthammer has had an interesting variety of careers in his life.
Before joining Fox News as a commentator, Krauthammer was actually a trained physician, practicing psychiatry in Massachusetts. Krauthammer found his passions for writing outweighed his desire to remain in medicine so he left medicine and began writing, eventually becoming an editor for a newspaper. He joined Time magazine thereafter, and later the Washington Post. As a columnist for the Post, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
Today, many Americans know him as the soft-spoken commentator who packs powerful verbiage as a contributor on Fox News. According to the Fox News Channel’s bio, “Krauthammer makes frequent appearances on Special Report with Bret Baier, The O’Reilly Factor and FOX News Sunday. He is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated journalist and physician as well as a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a weekly panelist on PBS’ Inside Washington. Additionally, Krauthammer joined The Washington Post in 1984, where he continues to write a weekly political column. He began his journalism career at The New Republic.”