On Tuesday, Chris Christie, a former Governor of New Jersey, announced his presidential campaign for 2024 and immediately criticized former President Donald Trump. He filed the necessary paperwork in the afternoon and spoke to a group of voters in New Hampshire, where he expressed his disapproval of Trump on different topics.
During a speech, Christie criticized the former president for failing to fulfill his promises while in office. He specifically mentioned the border wall as one of the unfulfilled promises. Additionally, Christie commented on Trump’s character, noting that he has a tendency to never admit mistakes and instead, blames and attacks others when things don’t go as planned.
“Beware, because that leader not only will not serve you, they will not be able to find anybody who will serve them. And a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog is not a leader,” Christie said. “Let me be clear, in case I have not been already, the person I am talking about who is obsessed with the mirror, who never admits a mistake, who never admits a fault, and will always find someone else and something else to blame for whatever goes wrong, but finds every reason to take credit for anything that goes right, is Donald Trump.”
Trump responded to Christie’s announcement with a post on social media: “How many times did Chris Christie use the word SMALL? Does he have a psychological problem with SIZE? Actually, his speech was SMALL, and not very good. It rambled all over the place, and nobody had a clue of what he was talking about. Hard to watch, boring, but that’s what you get from a failed Governor (New Jersey) who left office with a 7% approval rating and then got run out of New Hampshire. This time, it won’t be any different!”
According to polling analyst Steve Kornacki, Christie has a difficult path to becoming the GOP nominee in 2024, but he has the potential to harm Trump’s campaign significantly. Christie’s aggressive attacks during the 2016 Republican debates helped eliminate Senator Marco Rubio from the presidential race, earning him widespread recognition.
“So while the general assumption is that Trump benefits with every new candidate who enters, I do wonder if Christie could be an exception — that he ends up serving as a battering ram for DeSantis (or whoever has the clearest shot at Trump) in a key moment — a reversal of ’16,” he said. “The effect may not be to boost his own chances of winning, but more to land meaningful blows against Trump that no other Republican has figured out how to land, thereby boosting a non-Trump candidate.”
Earlier this month, Republican strategist Mike Murphy stated in an interview that Christie’s campaign would be like lighting a stick of dynamite and running straight towards Donald Trump.
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