Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie arrives to talk on the Religion and Freedom Street to Majority convention on the Washington Hilton on June 23, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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Former New Jersey Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie launched his newest blitz in opposition to Donald Trump on Fox Information on Sunday.
He claimed that the previous president has lied concerning the measurement of his rally crowds and did not maintain his coverage guarantees.
“The folks within the Republican Occasion, and fairly broadly throughout America, are uninterested in having political candidates who’re snake oil salesmen who simply do not inform them the reality, who inform them no matter they suppose they need to hear for the time being,” Christie informed Fox Information.
Christie deemed the estimated sizes of Trump’s rally crowds “absurd.”
“Tens of 1000’s do not present up anymore. That is one other one of many massive lies,” he added. “All you must do is have a look at the photographs.”
Christie has turn into one among Trump’s most vocal critics, whilst the previous president who’s presently embroiled in a number of felony investigations carries a big polling lead within the GOP’s crowded candidate pool.
Trump and Christie additionally diverge on Social Safety reform.
Trump has rejected reducing this system in any respect. Within the Sunday interview, Christie was much more staunch in his stance on means testing for Social Safety, which might exclude folks at greater incomes from receiving these advantages. He additionally stood by his proposal to boost the retirement age.
“Do the terribly rich want to gather Social Safety? Do we actually must have Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk amassing Social Safety?” he mentioned.
A former U.S. lawyer, Christie additionally criticized the five-year-long investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes, saying it’s “both a lie or it is incompetent.”
“There is no approach that it ought to take 5 years to get to a two-count misdemeanor tax plea after which to dismiss the gun fees” in opposition to President Joe Biden’s son, he mentioned.
Christie launched his long-shot bid on June 6 and is trailing Trump’s numbers at round 2.5%, although he has gained some steam relative to different candidates, based on aggregated polling from RealClear Politics. The previous governor has additionally touted massive donors supporting his marketing campaign.
To safe a spot within the Republican major debates beginning in August, the GOP candidates must get 40,000 contributor donations and ballot above 1% in both three nationwide polls, or two nationwide polls and one state ballot.
