Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie played a key role in clearing the field for Donald Trump in 2016 and now he’s trying to sell himself as the one man who can go toe-to-toe with the former president — this being his only real avenue to enter the 2024 Republican primary.
Attacking Trump is his schtick and it plays well on the Sunday political talks shows. Few are loved by the agenda-driven media more than Republicans willing to go on national TV and trash Trump.
Christie appeared on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday and likened the unprecedented political persecution of a former president who leads his party for the 2024 nomination to a “bad divorce.”
“That sounded to me like a guy that you’d encounter in a bar who you’d wind up sitting next to and he’s griping to you about his bad divorce,” Christie said, in response to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago speech following his arraignment last week.
“That’s what it sounded like to me. I don’t think most elections in my experience are won on the past,” he added. “They are won or lost on the future. And that is going to be his problem when the primary comes because the smart primary candidate will be talking about the future and ignoring Donald Trump, except for when he pops up. And then like wacko ball, you hit him down.”
Of course, Christie is selling himself as that “smart primary candidate” but GOP voters have a very different take on that, according to most polling.
Speaking of polling, Christie responded to poll results that suggest Trump would lose to President Biden to say the former president is the “only Republican” who cannot defeat frail, 80-year-old Biden.
“I think Donald Trump is the only Republican [Biden] can beat,” he said. “I don’t think he could beat any other Republican that could get nominated. But the economy will still be the thing that determines this, and I think we have more bumps ahead.”
The assessment plays on the established pattern of Americans voting with their pocketbooks, but the 2020 and 2022 elections bucked that trend, and with Democrats allegedly having election manipulation down to a science it’s highly debatable if the adage still holds true.
Christie essentially regurgitated Democrat talking points in using the politically-motivated indictment against Trump.
“No matter what he says and his people say, being indicted is not good for a political candidate,” he said. “Like that’s just — you know, he can get short-term bump among certain parts of our own party. But in the end, it’s not good to be indicted.”
“Being indicted, the public does still look at that and say that’s not what should be happening to a national leader,” Christie added.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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