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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As I recall, the moment Trump stopped being a good fiend and became a hated enemy of Christie is when Trump did not make him Chief of Staff of the WH (or other top job). That fact says it all about the character of Chris Christie.
I find this event very puzzling. Who gives a damn about Christie? Who would vote for him to be nominated for President?
We will now have a real heavyweight in the race.
Fat mofo says he is entering the race to take on Trump. He isn’t in it to take on Biden.
Oh well, as usual when pigboy talks, the conversation will evolve into it all being about his fat self.
Can you trust a man that can’t control his own appetite to control the country?
“Rolling” out his campaign.
I think Christie would be better off in the Hot Dog eating contest.
Like Crusty backing into an all-you-can-eat buffet, stern first.
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