Posted on 11/11/2021 3:32:52 AM PST by RandFan
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, lacing up for a possible presidential run in 2024, told "Axios on HBO" he won't back down from a fight with former President Donald Trump, taunting his longtime friend for losing the last election.
"I've never walked away from an argument, no matter who stood on the other side," Christie told me during a wide-ranging interview in New Jersey.
Why it matters: This is the first hand-to-hand combat of the 2024 Republican presidential race.
Many Republican candidates fear crossing Trump. But Christie — who said he still considers Trump a friend, despite their falling-out over the president's behavior during the Jan. 6 riot — relishes political combat.
What's happening: Christie got great press for remarks he made last weekend at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, where he argued Republicans need to focus on future fights rather than rehashing the 2020 election.
That got under Trump's skin. He issued a harsh statement Monday saying Christie "was just absolutely massacred by his statements that Republicans have to move on from the past, meaning the 2020 Election Fraud." "Everybody remembers," Trump added, "that Chris left New Jersey with a less than 9% approval rating — a record low, and they didn’t want to hear this from him!" Christie had a zinger ready when I sat down with him Tuesday.
"I'm not gonna get into a back-and-forth with Donald Trump," the former governor told me. "But what I will say is this: When I ran for reelection in 2013, I got 60% of the vote. When he ran for reelection, he lost to Joe Biden."
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Fat dooooish
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
while stuffing his face with donuts
Kristie Kreme is surely enjoying all the lefty attention. Icing on the donuts.
Deep State sends another clown to chip away at Trump. What a pos
Just cue the Obama campaign photo of him strolling the Jersey Shore boardwalk on his romantic date with Obama a week after Obama oversaw the Benghazi murders
Remind me again, Chrissy; How many times were you elected President???
Chris, any such taunting is not easily forgivable. This was not your usual election loss. Certainly you must know this. Your approach is not working to increase your status.
Delusional this fat ass is.
I just don’t know who supports this guy.
They are delusional.
The only way that gelatinous hunk of putrid mindless blubber would get elected nationally is by voter fraud, and if the Leftists are going to break the law, they will do it for their own candidates, not those of the opposing party.
Christie stole his primary race from Steve Lonegan in 2009 using the same Dominion machines that were used against Trump
He knows it.
We know it.
He knows we know it.
We know he knows we know it.
That’s why “The Fat Man” is against any election audits. He is going down in flames worse than Jeb Bush. He is just positioning himself for a cabinet seat in the DeSantis administration.
Have a donut, Chris.
No Republican in his right mind would give an interview to Allen, founder of Axios. Christie is desperate to remain relevant. And isn’t.
Christie has never walked away from an open buffet
That giant, gelatinous blob can go F himself all by his lonesome on a closed beach.
Chris Christie continuously loses battles against every cookie, cupcake, and candy bar he goes up against.
Allen is the one always wanting me to have a great day. I hate that.
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