- Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday called former President Trump’s 2024 bid a “vanity campaign.”
- Christie said on WABC radio that the Biden-Trump matchup was “bad” for the Republican Party.
- The former governor is considering his own campaign for 2024 and is expected to make a decision this month.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday again denounced former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, calling the former president’s 2024 efforts “a vanity exercise to make you feel better.”
Christie, a former Trump ally who is pondering his own presidential campaign, has criticized the state of the White House race. WABC radio interview With New York businessman John Kachmatidis — meanwhile, he opposed the prospect of a 2020 rematch between President Joe Biden and the former president.
“I am very concerned that what we are heading for is a rematch between Trump and Biden,” Christie said.
“Donald Trump has been losing since he won the election in 2016,” he continued. “We lost the House in 2018. We lost the Senate and the White House in 2020. In 2022 we underperformed and lost even more governor and Senate seats. Donald Trump won. do not have”
In recent weeks, Christie has traveled to New Hampshire, a key early voting primary state, to test potential campaigns, while also arguing why Trump shouldn’t be the Republican party’s standard-bearer again next year.
“He’s doing vanity exercises to make him feel better. It’s not going to make the country any better,” Christie said. I’m afraid it’s reluctant, so that’s why I’m considering it.”
“The only way to beat the frontrunner is to go directly to the frontrunner,” he added.
So far, the leading Republican candidates declared in non-Trump elections include the former governor. Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, conservative radio host and his 2021 California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder.
Christie led Garden State from 2010 to 2018 and ran for president in 2016. However, he put his presidential campaign on hold as a result of disappointment in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The former governor has suggested making a decision on the 2024 campaign this month.