A.G. Gancarski
With new polling showing Chris Christie in second place in New Hampshire, the former New Jersey Governor is talking smack about the man in third.
During a Fox News interview, Christie ripped Florida’s Governor amid the latest evidence of a collapse of his once-solid position in the 2024 GOP field.
“I’m in this race for 2 1/2 months and I’ve gone from nowhere to second place in New Hampshire. If you’re Gov. Ron DeSantis this morning, you’ve got to be wondering what the hell happened here,” Christie said.
“He’s been the presumptive front challenger (to Donald Trump) since before he was re-elected Governor of Florida. I’m now past him in New Hampshire after 2 1/2 months,” Christie added.
DeSantis has tumbled to just 8% in the latest Emerson College New Hampshire survey of the race, 1 point behind Christie and 41 points behind former President Trump, seemingly fulfilling Christie’s conviction that he’d achieved parity with the Florida Governor in the Granite State.
“Our momentum is going the right way. Gov. DeSantis is going in the wrong direction. And so our first job is to get past Gov. DeSantis here in New Hampshire, we’ve now caught him. Now we need to pass him,” Christie said last week during another Fox News interview.
DeSantis has had little to say, as of yet at least, about Christie. But Christie hasn’t held back on diagnosing DeSantis’ problems.
During an interview that aired Friday on WMUR’s “Conversation with the candidate,” Christie depicted DeSantis as consumed by anger and unable to heal the divide nationally as a result.
“He sounds like a really angry guy. He’s squinting his eyes all the time and pissed about something, you know, so I’m skeptical, right. I’m skeptical that somebody who’s that angry cares about healing the divide or has the ability to do it,” Christie said.
20 comments
PeterH
August 15, 2023 at 11:56 am
Looming in today’s Republican Party are three voting blocks that will challenge Chris Christie’s rise to the national leadership position he deserves. EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS, MAGA TRUMPSTERS and WHITE NATIONALIST!
He needs them all to win but the second he starts pandering to any faction ….. Christie is toast with real conservatives lurking in the Independent voting block. After all, neither Democrats nor Republicans decide on which party wins elections…..INDEPENDENT VOTERS DECIDE.
Terri
August 15, 2023 at 12:56 pm
Chris Christie is far more seasoned than Ron DeSantis and he is much more desirable than him. Ron DeSantis is too far right for me. His racism is not what I believe in.
Silly Wabbit
August 15, 2023 at 1:44 pm
You good.
SteveHC
August 15, 2023 at 1:52 pm
I’m by no means a Christie fan but I would ABSOLUTELY take him over the Trump or DeSantis fascists ANY day.
Mark
August 15, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Totally agree! Best news I’ve heard today
Horace Rumpole
August 16, 2023 at 5:56 am
Amen, Bro.
Dont Say FLA
August 15, 2023 at 2:24 pm
What happened was KC and the Never Back Over PAC, along with the Rhonda campaign, blew loads of money introducing Rhonda to people all around New Hampshire.
And that is where they went wrong.
Once they’ve encountered him… Everybody Hates Rhonda!
What happened
August 15, 2023 at 4:28 pm
What happened was, in stock market parlance, a “correction.”
The real question is why Ron ever polled highly.
Joe
August 15, 2023 at 6:05 pm
Look at his opposition. He barely beat Gillum with all his problems,, and Charlie was Republican light so many Democrats wouldn’t even vote for him.
JS
August 15, 2023 at 7:17 pm
This is one bridge I am very thankful Chris Christie shut down!
Bob
August 16, 2023 at 8:48 am
I live in Florida ! HELP! I cannot move out or I would. I have voted Republican in every presidential race EXCEPT 2 since 1968 when I began voting. We need someone to be nominated who is not crazy which means someone who does not live in Florida!
Lex
August 16, 2023 at 9:13 am
Bob, please leave our state. My bet is you were not born here and left a state for being terrible. Go back and ruin your old state and stay out of ours.
Eddie McCormick
August 16, 2023 at 11:15 am
You CAN DO IT BOB, You CAN MOVE out of Florida. Just got! Sounds like you’re needing California or somewhere to fit YOUR wants, or maybe Cuba is better for you.
Dont Say FLA
August 17, 2023 at 8:50 am
Perhaps Rhonda should arrange Florida state funded travel out of state via private charter jet for Bob and other US citizens currently in Florida who would prefer not to be in Florida.
But Rhonda won’t do that.
That would cut into his campaign fund that folks used to refer to as the Florida State Treasury.
Lex
August 16, 2023 at 9:11 am
Chris Christy is a clown. I am not sure why anyone thinks he is relevant. The last time I heard talk about him, he was closing a bridge out of spite (making his whole state mad) and hugging Obama at an airport during an election. Christy is just not going to be the guy, so he doesn’t need to be throwing rocks for no reason at Desantis.
Dont Say FLA
August 16, 2023 at 11:16 am
Lex is right.
There’s no reason to be throwing rocks at DeSantis.
Anymore.
My Take
August 17, 2023 at 7:08 am
no reason to be throwing rocks at DeSantis.
Anymore.
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Roadkill
Buzzard buffet.
Rocks For Liberty
August 17, 2023 at 8:48 am
Chris Christie won’t be President. He’s not trying to be President. He’s just in there throwing Rock For Liberty. And Why? Easy. Nobody else was doing it, but it needed to be done.
Unlike Moms For Liberty, these Rocks For Liberty being thrown by Christie, they truly are for liberty. They are rocks for USA. USA rocks, if you will.
Trump and Rhonda both need Christie’s USA rocks to hit them in the face repeatedly until such time that the USA is safe in its position as a going concern in the free world.
Tropical
August 16, 2023 at 10:05 pm
What happened?
He was caught being himself.
Parky Lott
August 17, 2023 at 8:57 am
He finally got caught?
Did he get caught outside the Publix or the Target?
Was there a mom? Or was it just some kids?
Every accusation from a GOP….
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