Posted on 06/05/2023 9:39:49 PM PDT by conservative98
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is set to launch his bid for the Republican nomination for president at a town hall in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening.
The campaign will be the second for Christie, who lost to Trump in 2016 and went on to become a close on-and-off adviser before breaking with the former president over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. He has cast himself as the only candidate willing to directly take on former President Donald Trump.
Christie will enter a growing primary field that already includes Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. Former Vice President Mike Pence will be formally launching his own campaign in Iowa on Wednesday.
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Christie has cast himself as the only person with the guts to take on Trump directly and has warned of a repeat of 2016 if candidates fail to confront him.
“I’m not dumb. The way to win is to beat the guy who’s ahead. And so what would a campaign look like? A campaign would look like a direct frontal challenge to Donald Trump trying to return to the presidency,” Christie recently said in a podcast interview.
Anti-Trump Republicans are particularly eager to see Christie spar with Trump on a debate stage — if, of course, Trump agrees to participate in primary debates and Christie meets the stringent fundraising criteria set by the Republican National Committee for participation.
But Christie has also said he would not run as a kamikaze candidate to take down Trump if he didn’t believe there was a viable path to his own victory. “I’m not a paid assassin,” he recently told Politico.
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Did he get the endorsement of the Fey Wray?
He couldn’t launch himself off a lawn chair.
Same here. Why people keep going back to get kicked in the teeth is beyond me.
I donut believe you for one minute. 😁
This is huge!
Whew! He must be relieved NH governor
Chris “Who Knew?” Sununu dropped out
(quickly) of the prez race.
Launching a presidential campaign
can help put a pol on the map and
earn them money and attention somehow.
Seth Moulton of MA North Shore made a quick entrance—and exit—like that.
I recall an Indiana pol who tried
to stop a “performance royalty” from being
added to radio. Later Trump picked him...to be
his running mate..Mike Pence. Ugh.
Visited Concord NH and saw near the
state house an exhibit about great
moments in the NH Primary and a list
of winners.
Ed Muskie—tears on his face, or
melting snow?
Reagan at a NH debate—”I am
PAYING for this microphone, Mr
Breen!”
Delusional
Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum!
I could believe that. He’s actually got speaking skills. I’m sure most here remember when he made minced meat out of Marco Rubio in the 2016 primary debates. It was a sight to behold. The problem is, he’s a swamp rat so that’s all irrelevant.
He is an charismatic conman.
Consider among his legal specialties is election law and exactly how many times he has spoken up about the election laws being violated in HD.
I WOULD NOT PLAN MOTHERHOOD WITH A 'VACCINATED' MAN PATHOLOGIST - ARNE BURKHARDT
He's dead now.
Rest In Peace Dr Arne Burkhardt who pioneered work in the pathology of the COVID "vaccines"
What’s his campaign symbol going to be? The Goodyear Blimp in the shape of a giant donut??
How do you launch 8oo pound tub of lard?
#FACT
He can’t win so what’s the purpose? A multi-million dollar campaign to weaken President Trump.
Prediction: he will lose the primary with less than 3% support and will endorse Biden “to save the country.”
Deep State doesn’t have a deep bench, but it does have a YUGE collection of dunce chairs.
Including bariatric.
Christie has been making me angry ever since his virtual arm in arm walk with Obama after a hurricane in year 2012.
Even still, I can’t deny Chis Christie has high energy and a wide range of political knowledge.
Dare I say it, Christie can be a riveting, charismatic speaker, whether you agree with him or not. Sort of a poor man’s Newt Gingrich. This is his natural, showboat, man in charge personality on display.
The polar opposite of someone like Mike Pence. Pence is “ pensive” or more stoic by nature.
After 23 years, I wish I knew how to post Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction saying “shut the F up fat man. This ain’t none of your damn business”…..
RLTW
I hope they break a bottle of champagne over his head and push him into the Atlantic.
Never forget Chris Christie is Obama’s butt boy.
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