Story by Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald • Yesterday 6:51 PM
Republican candidate for President Chris Christie speaks at Saint Anselm in Manchester Staff Photo by Nancy Lane/Boston Herald (Tuesday,June 6, 2023). on the Boston Common on Tuesday, in Manchester, NH. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald) June 6, 2023© Nancy Lane/Boston Herald/TNS
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Gov. Chris Christie made clear from the start that his campaign for the White House will not be the same as other Republicans, launching his run for the presidency with direct attacks on the leading conservative candidate, former President Trump.
Where other GOP hopefuls have attempted to strike a very delicate balance — stuck somewhere between making clear that they should be the party’s pick to face President Biden in November of 2024, while not insulting the 45th president directly lest they alienate his MAGA-movement base — Christie launched his campaign with broad-ranging historical references to successful political leaders from the past and then promptly began an unapologetic assault on Trump’s record and public scandals.
“A lonely, self-consumed, self-serving, mirror hog is not a leader,” he said. “So now we have pretenders all around us, who want to tell you ‘pick me, because I’m kind of like what you picked before, but not quite as crazy, but I don’t want to say his name.’ Because for these other pretenders, he is — for those of you who read the Harry Potter books — like Voldemort. He is he who shall not be named.”
“Well let me be clear, in case I have not been already,” he said to laughter.
“The person I am talking about, who is obsessed with the mirror, who never admits a mistake, who never admits a fault, and who always finds 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” Christie said in New Hampshire during a town hall style appearance at Saint Anselm College, before officially announcing his candidacy for the GOP nomination.
Christie, who served two terms as New Jersey’s governor, has run for president before.
He left the 2016 race after coming in sixth in New Hampshire’s first in the nation primary. He would later endorse and lead Trump’s White House transition team. Since then, he has become something of an oddity among his party, calling Trump responsible for the events of January 6 and openly opposing his obviously false claims the 2020 election was somehow stolen.
Background of taxing everything. Has he figured out how to tax taxes yet?
ReplyDeleteHe’s had his problems but I actually think he is the most politically cunning and sharpest minds in the race. He commands a room.
ReplyDeleteDon’t lower yourself to name calling. Pretty childish. Something Trump would do.
ReplyDeleteHe will just bash Trump. That is his job.
ReplyDeleteTrumps new nickname for him, "Chris P Cream". What a fat piece of shit.
ReplyDeleteImbicile
ReplyDeleteMarxist elite
ReplyDelete