Gov. Chris Christie is making noise that he just might throw his hat in the 2024 GOP Presidential race – and he is ready to take on Donald Trump. Christie, whose strong debate performance in 2016 unnerved then-candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, is saying he is ready to be the guy to go after Trump in the debates.
Chris Christie is sharpening his attacks on his former friend and ally Donald Trump as the ex-New Jersey governor considers challenging the former president for the GOP nomination in 2024.
Christie, famous for his acerbic remarks, knows the former president well and is comfortable going on television with ready-made sound bites about Trump that make headlines.
On Monday, he said the GOP field needed a candidate who would go after Trump and do what Christie did to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a 2016 debate, when he questioned Rubio’s lack of experience and mocked the senator for using the same “25-second memorized speech” over and over.
“You better have somebody on that stage who can do to him what I did to Marco [Rubio], because that’s the only thing that’s gonna defeat Donald Trump,” Christie said during a town hall at Saint Anselm College on Monday.
“And that means you gotta have the skill to do it,” he added. “And that means you have to be fearless because he will come back and right at you.” . . . .
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