Posted on 06/23/2023 7:09:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
2024 GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie went ballistic over President Donald Trump for previously suggesting he may not participate in the GOP primary debates.
During an interview on Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade played a clip from Trump’s recent interview with Bret Baier, where he said he didn’t feel the need to participate in the primary debates because his poll numbers were demolishing other Republican candidates.
“Christie is, I guess, 1% or less. Many of them, Nikki Haley’s is a 2%. So why would I allow people at one and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions? You know, I don’t think it’s fair,” Trump said.
Kilmeade asked Chris Christie to respond, who had a total meltdown over the prospect of Trump not taking part in the debates.
“Oh, it’s not fair, Brian. It’s not fair.” Christie snapped.
“Poor Donald Trump,” he added.
Christie went on to mock Trump as “the guy who wants to be president of the United States, the guy who says that he’s the toughest person to lead this country, doesn’t want to get up in front of Republican primary voters and defend his record and make a case for the future of America.”
“Look, every Republican primary voter should have the opportunity to see all those people who qualify up on the stage debating with each other,” he continued before plugging his website for donations.
“He can’t avoid this, Brian. It’s not fair to the Republican Party voters,” he said.
“I think it’s disrespectful. He thinks he should just default to the nomination. I don’t think so. And I believe that everyone should have the right to get up there and debate who qualifies under the rules,” Christie added.
“And Donald Trump has an obligation to be up there and do it. And by the way, I think he will debate Bryan. I don’t think you’ll be able to stay away.”
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This isn’t the first time Christie has had a meltdown over Trump.
024 GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie suffered a meltdown when Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer praised former President Donald Trump
During an interview on “America’s Newsroom” earlier this month, Fox host Hemmer noted Trump is “crushing it” in the polls, leading him to ask if voters actually want a Trump critic like Chris Christie in the Republican primary.
Christie, a “Trump critic,” did not handle this well.
After trying to shrug off Trump, Christie turned his attention to President Joe Biden, which led to Hemmer bringing up the border,
Then Hemmer noted that Trump’s policies “did much better on everything you just mentioned.”
Christie couldn’t handle it.
“Wait a second, Bill. His policies did not do better at the border. Not true,” Christie retorted.
“Remember what he promised in 2016? He was going to build a wall across the entire border in the first four years, and Mexico was going to pay for it. We got a wall that’s about a quarter of the way done, and Mexico hasn’t given us one peso yet.” he said.
“So Donald Trump in 2016 was the guy who had no record, so he couldn’t be examined in a very specific way. He now said he was going to do that with immigration. And by the way, he had Congress for the first two years fully controlled by the Republicans. Not one change in the immigration laws,” Christie added,
“You can go down to the border today and see piles of steel that are just laying there in the Arizona desert,” Hemmer said.
“Those piles of steel have been sitting there since Donald Trump was president,” Christie shot back.
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If you don’t have 5% polling, no debates for you Christie.
Looks more like trying to make Trump the nominee, so he can lose the whole shebang.
That would have been a major conflagration..........................
Reagan did.................
Christie’s life is dependent on media appearances like this one. Otherwise he is just another fat unhappy man in the street.
Trump passed up a debate in the past. He could do it again, with no ill effects.
He’s a lawyer.
Lawyers aren’t interested in ‘fair’..................
Trump would be a fool to skip the debates. He needs some practice handling 2024 issues if he wants to win the November 2024 election.
He won’t, he loves them.....................
Darn it! Don't do that! I'm still drinking the morning pot of non-Starbucks coffee! :)
Trump is being smart.
Let the 10 pygmies debate their heart’s content.
It’ll be hilarious how they address the Orange Elephant that isn’t in the room with them.
Looks more like trying to make Trump the nominee, so he can lose the whole shebang.
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Trump will be the Republican nominee without breaking a sweat.
We just don’t know which way the American Establishment will rig the General Election.
2016 rigged for Trump
2020 rigged for Biden
2024 rigged for ??
A “total meltdown”? Really?
This is the type of writing that passes for journalism these days. The hyperbole is tiring. We can thank those with low intellect and a short attention span for this crap. Everything has to be an extreme, or it doesn’t matter.
Don’t fall prey to bloggers pushing emotional buttons for clicks.
I understand why Trump doesn’t want to debate. This just means that there will be NO debates with poll leaders or major candidates throughout the entire election cycle because Biden isn’t going anywhere near a stage.
In the end, the country will get their information from these hyperbolic bloggers and not from their own eyes and ears. That is a bad and sad thing.
Is he fat? I don’t think anyone noticed.
The grammar school “fat jokes” are tiresome and lazy.
I suppose having NJ DOT close multiple entrances to the Hudson River crossings into NYC for two years (because you didn’t get your political protection money from the Mayors of those jurisdictions) is Christie’s definition of “fair”.
Chris Christie is just another politician willing to whore himself out to the highest bidder, in this case - the Democrats. Politicians like him are what makes politics fetid swamp that it is.
DJT was protecting CC. The latter would have had a heart attack climbing the five steps up to the stage.
Nope, Trump is not nearly popular enough to win the general.
So, you think it was rigged FOR Trump in ‘16?
I know the Dems gripes about that, but that surprises me to see that from a fan. Interesting.
Anyway, Trump didn’t even win the pop vote in’16, but the electoral. Like Bush. And he couldn’t have been cheated in ‘20 if he was as beloved as devotees here think he is.
That was my point. Trump will lose the general, doesn’t matter if it is rigged or clear.
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