Former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie Not afraid to openly oppose anyone, including his former allies and former presidents Donald Trump. But when it comes to the 2024 Republican campaign, Christie is more conservative.
Christie, who had supported the former president before Trump refused to accept his election defeat, said that he did not want to make predictions about the presidential campaign and was not sure whether he or Trump would run again. The former governor is a potential Republican candidate for the White House because the party is waiting for Trump to commit to another campaign.
“I don’t know if he can run. I don’t know if I can run,” the former governor told CNNof Dana Bash In the second episode of CNN’s new “Being…” series, the focus is on Christie.
Bash asked Christie whether he would support the former president’s re-election. Christie responded that although Trump “is seriously considering”, he wants to “see what happens when he does this.”
“Let’s see who he is, what he said, and how he behaved,” Christie told CNN. But he continued to say that he did not want to speculate on the 2024 election or Trump’s future behavior, because it is still three years away.
“I won’t sit here in 2021 to prejudge all this. I voted for him in 16 and 20. On election night in 20 years, I said that what he did was absolutely terrible and wrong, and continue to be,” Christie Say. “You can draw any conclusion you want from it. But in the end, in 2021, the idea of making a prediction for 2024 is stupid.”
He continued: “There is no reason to create a commotion at a party where there is already a lot of commotion.”
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Christie’s said these words before the release of his new book Republican rescue: rescue the party from the dangerous policies of truth deniers, conspiracy theorists, and Joe Biden And echoed his similar remarks about his ambitions for the Republican Party in recent weeks-which sparked criticism from the former president.
At the Republican Jewish League meeting in Las Vegas earlier this month, Christie stated that his party needs to “keep going” and no longer claim that the 2020 election is fraudulent, and urged the Republicans to propose “tomorrow Plan instead of dissatisfaction with yesterday”. “
Christie also emphasized that if Trump is not in the spotlight, candidates can better connect with voters and begin to win more elections.
The former governor has pressured the party in the past to abandon Trump’s theory, which led Trump to hunt down his former allies.
“Chris Christie, who just gave a speech at the RJC in Las Vegas, was completely slaughtered by his remarks Republicans We must move on from the past, which means election fraud in 2020,” Trump said in a statement. “Everyone remembers that Chris left New Jersey with less than 9% approval rate-a record low, they Don’t want to hear that this is his! “
Axios later questioned how Christie responded to the former president’s attack. He said: “I will not argue with Donald Trump. But what I want to say is: When I ran for re-election in 2013, I got 60% of the vote. , When he was running for re-election, he lost to Joe Biden.”
The former governor also told New York Times In an interview published on Saturday, Trump’s actions towards Republican lawmakers were intended to “instill fear.”
“Donald Trump’s own behavior is to instill fear,” Christie said, why some Republicans are anxious about bypassing the former president and being viewed as unfaithful by him.
When Christie, who helped Trump prepare for the October 2020 presidential debate, urged the former president to stop touting the baseless claims that the election was stolen, it became a bad relationship for the Republicans themselves.
Christie also told the media that on January 6, when Christie was “urgently” trying to talk to the then president, he called Trump’s personal cell phone, bodyguard and secretary, but no one answered.
“The president must come out and tell his supporters to leave the Capitol and allow Congress Do their business peacefully.Otherwise it is to give up his responsibility,” Christie said ABC information.
Christie himself ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, but previously told CNN that he will wait until the 2022 midterm elections to determine whether he will run for the 2024 election.
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