Tag Archives: Chris Christie

The New York Post reports: Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is preparing to announce his entrance into the 2024 GOP presidential race “in the coming days,” according to a report. The report came from “New Hampshire Today” host Chris Ryan on Thursday, who cited “multiple sources with direct knowledge.” The report notes that the Christie campaign will focus …

Semafor reports: Hedge fund founder Anthony Scaramucci plans to back former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the Republican presidential primary and expects billionaire Steve Cohen will support him, too. Speaking to Semafor at his SALT conference in New York, Scaramucci said Wednesday that Christie will draw interest from Wall Street donors with whom he has close ties. Christie has …

USA Today reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continued testing the waters for a long-shot presidential bid in New Hampshire, the primary state where he finished virtually last in 2016 and soon prompted his exit from the presidential field. Christie sought to set himself apart from the rest of the 2024 Republican field, pointing out by name how his …

“I don’t think most elections, in my experience, are won on the past. They are won or lost on the future. That’s gonna be his problem when the primary comes, because the smart primary candidate will be talking about the future and ignoring Donald Trump except for when he pops up. I think Donald Trump is the only Republican [Biden] …

“I think it’s interesting that someone says they’re going to refuse to extradite someone who’s not asking. I mean, Trump and his lawyers are negotiating a voluntary surrender, which is what they should do. It’s the responsible thing to do. “And Ron DeSantis comes out and says, ‘I won’t extradite him.’ Well, who the hell asked you? The governor has …

Axios reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is seriously considering a 2024 presidential campaign, told Axios that he will never support Donald Trump for president again — even if he wins the Republican nomination. No potential GOP candidate has made such an explicit pledge, underscoring the degree to which Christie is betting on the viability of an anti-Trump …

Mediaite reports: In a panel on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos asked Christie if he thought Congressional Republicans made a “mistake” by yelling at Biden during his speech. The former governor agreed — calling it a “big mistake,” and saying “you don’t want to rise to the bait, and they did. A number of them did.” “The better response would …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: ‘Sloppy’ Chris Christie, the failed former Governor of New Jersey, spent almost his entire last year in office campaigning in New Hampshire for the Republican Nomination for President. Much like his term in office, where he left with an Approval Rating of just 9%, his Presidential campaign was a complete disaster. He endorsed me …

The Hill reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, two prominent moderate figures in the Republican Party, both predicted on Sunday that former President Trump could not beat President Biden if they were in a rematch for the White House in 2024. An ABC-Washington Post poll conducted over the last week showed that there …

ABC News reports: “I’ve known Joe Manchin for a long time, he was my mentor governor when I got elected in 2009. He’s never going to be a Republican in my view,” Christie said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I think Joe Manchin is a Democrat going all the way back to his mom and dad, it’s part of who he …

The New York Post reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s niece was likely drunk and high when she was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight, displaying “unusual strength” and foaming from the mouth as she fought off cops and shouted, “Do you know who I am?” Shannon Epstein allegedly caused the ruckus on a 6 a.m. flight from New …

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: After getting forced off an airplane for asking passengers who appeared to her to be Latino whether they were drug mules, a niece of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie bit, kicked and spit on Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies trying to detain her. Shannon Epstein, 25, boarded the Spirit Airlines flight to New Jersey on …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of the country’s most prominent young white supremacists, at Mr. Trump’s private club in Florida, advisers to Mr. Trump conceded on Friday. A Holocaust denier and unabashed racist, Mr. Fuentes openly uses hateful language on his podcast, …

The Hill reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Saturday urged the Republican Party to move on from Donald Trump, just days after the former president announced his third bid for office. “It is time to stop whispering,” Christie said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting. “It is time to stop being afraid of any one …

Axios reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received huge applause at an annual meeting of Republican governors Tuesday morning after blaming former President Trump for GOP failures in the last three elections, according to three sources in the room and a fourth person familiar with the speech. The chorus of Republican office-holders calling for the GOP to move on …

“We lost in ’18. We lost in ’20. We lost in ’21 in Georgia. And now in ’22 we’re going to net lose governorships, we’re not going to pick up the number of seats in the House that we thought and we may not win the Senate. “There’s only one person to blame for that and that’s Donald Trump. The …

The Hill reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) indicated during a television appearance that aired Friday he was not ruling out another run for president. During an appearance on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Maher presented Christie with a viewer question, asking him if there’s any truth to the speculation that he’s considering a 2024 presidential bid, to …

The Hill reports: “The more you absolutely antagonize with nonsense arguments on television that your lawyers won’t make in court — because they’re afraid they’ll be sanctioned if they do because they have no evidence — you’re pushing yourself closer to a self-inflicted indictment,” Chris Christie said on ABC’s “This Week” with host George Stephanopoulos. “I think these are all …

Yahoo News reports: Former President Donald Trump has continued using his custom-built Twitter knockoff Truth Social to bully his political detractors, this time taking aim at former Republican governor of New Jersey Chris Christie. Mr Trump’s account posted an image of a man leaning over a buffet counter with his back to the camera, along with a caption needling Mr …

The Hill reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) criticized former President Trump on Twitter after Trump’s comments about Christie and several other GOP governors supporting Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R)’s push for reelection instead of Trump-endorsed candidate, former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.). His tweet came after Trump called Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) …