The former New Jersey governor reportedly thinks he’s the Republican who can stop Trump’s 2024 bid — despite already losing to him badly.
Politico, he’s testing a rationale for candidacy among old friends and past supporters in New Hampshire in quiet gatherings:
Christie challenged Republicans to find someone who can do to Trump “what I did to Marco” Rubio — a callback to his 2016 debate-stage evisceration of the Republican senator from Florida — “because that’s the only thing that’s going to defeat” Trump. “You have to be fearless, because he will come back — and right at you,” Christie said. “And that means you need to think about who’s got the skill to do that, and who’s got the guts to do that, because it’s not going to end nicely.”
It’s easy to forget about Christie, who in retrospect probably missed his best chance at running for president. He hasn’t held any significant public office since leaving the New Jersey governorship at the beginning of 2018. And his relationship with Trump over the years has been far from heroic. Indeed, he probably lost his final chance to become attorney general or White House chief of staff when he during 2020 debate-prep sessions.
So it’s a bit hard to credibly view Christie as a sort of “Never Trump” avenging angel who will stop the former president’s comeback by sheer bravado. Christie’s claim that he will do to Trump what he did to
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