Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took time out from attacking former President Donald Trump to huck some mud at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis while campaigning on Friday in the Sunshine State.
Christie blasted DeSantis for his recent tap dance around a question from a high school student about the events of January 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
“Do you believe that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power – a key principle of American democracy that we must uphold?” the 15-year-old asked DeSantis.
It was a straightforward question, but DeSantis’s answer was anything but direct.
(Video: YouTube)
“You in high school?” DeSantis asked the young man, to which the teen replied, “Yeah.”
“Where do you go to school?” DeSantis wanted to know. “You go around here?”
“Vermont,” the student replied, “but I live in New Hampshire.”
“Oh, ok. So, you’re from Vermont,” the governor said. “Well, thank you for the question.”
“So, here’s what I know,” DeSantis continued. “If this election is about Biden’s failures and our vision for the future, we are going to win. If it’s about re-litigating things that happen two, three years ago, we’re gonna lose.”
“And I can tell you this,” DeSantis said. “I can point you to Tallahassee, Florida on, I believe, January 5, 2023. We had a transition of power from my first administration to my second ’cause I won reelection in a historic fashion. And at the end of the day, you know, we need to win and we need to get this done.”
“So, I wasn’t anywhere near Washington that day,” he told the young man. “I have nothing to do with what happened that day. Obviously, I didn’t enjoy seeing, you know, what happened. But we gotta go forward on this stuff. We cannot be looking backwards and be mired in the past.”
Christie, like many who saw DeSantis’s remarks as a non-answer, was not impressed.
“When he got asked up in New Hampshire by a 15-year-old about his point of view on the January 6th riot, he said, ‘Well, I wasn’t in Washington that day, so I don’t know as much about it,'” Christie told the South Miami crowd.
“Well, sh*t, man, I wasn’t in Washington either, ok?” he stated. “But I have a TV set and I saw what was going on and I got an opinion about it.”
“Well sh*t, man!” Chris Christie rips Ron DeSantis for not being able to answer simple question about Jan 6. (Video: CNN) pic.twitter.com/gTNwOsyVWj
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As BizPac Review reported earlier this month, Christie boasted to Fox News’s Bret Baier that some polls show him in a second-place tie with DeSantis, despite a Real Clear Politics polling average that showed he was tied with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) in third place at just 6.7 percent.
“In just the last two days there were two more polls that have come out that now have me tied for second with Governor DeSantis, one at 11 percent and one at 9 percent so we feel like it’s really moving in our direction,” Christie stated, though he failed to mention which polls he was referring to.
Boasting Chris Christie claims he’s tied with DeSantis, sets his sights on Trump https://t.co/1DVEwHw3uG via @BIZPACReview
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“Our momentum is going the right way,” Christie insisted. “Governor DeSantis is going in the wrong direction, and so first job is to get past Governor DeSantis here in New Hampshire. We’ve now caught him, now we need to pass him, and then we’re gonna take on Donald Trump one-on-one.”
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