Jacob Ogles
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie drew immediate catcalls as he stepped on stage at a Republican gathering in Orlando. But like a heel in a professional wrestling ring, the Republican presidential candidate absorbed the boos.
“When you think about the problems that our country and this world is facing, when you think about this type of candidate, this type of pettiness, is beneath the process of electing a President,” Christie said.
Christie was among seven candidates slated to speak at the Florida Freedom Summit, held Saturday by the Republican Party of Florida. Arguably, he’s made the strongest case in his campaign against re-electing former President Donald Trump, who faces state and federal indictments in four states across the country.
Christie was the second candidate of the day to attract boos from the crowd of party leaders and activists, after former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson elicited a similar response.
But Christie turned on the crowd, calling out the defiant loyalty to Trump.
“The problem is, you fear the truth,” he said. “The problem is, you want to shut down any voice that says anything different than what you want to hear. And you can continue to do it. And believe me, believe me, it doesn’t bother me one bit.”
He compared that to hostile protests against Israel taking place across the country. Christie said that’s antithetical to the principles of democracy, “whether it’s on a college campus in the Ivy League, or whether it’s an auditorium in Orlando.”
Christie touted his own record going after terrorists in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including prosecuting individuals who tried to shoot down planes at Newark Airport.
“We deserve, once again, better character in the White House than what we had for the last three presidents. Much better character,” Christie said. “You can yell and move about it as much as you’d like, but it doesn’t change the truth, and the truth is coming.”
5 comments
James Wilson
November 4, 2023 at 1:14 pm
“Last THREE Presidents?” Christie loves to troll Trump, but he lets his clueless, pandering, inner MAGA shine when he deprecates President Obama to coddle the deplorable horde. Bridgegate revealed his character. Heel, indeed.
My Take
November 4, 2023 at 1:15 pm
Good for him.
BTW: plains & move –> planes & moan?
PeterH
November 4, 2023 at 1:20 pm
The MAGA crowd is married to the cult of Donald Trump. May the GQP go down in flames.
The fact is that there are very few authentic conservatives remaining in today’s Republican Party. The Party has been hijacked by fake Christian grifters and Trump cultists. Millions of conservatives started to migrate from the Republican Party after Reagan tripled the national debt.
Today’s Republicans are not the best of America!
Republicans are America’s worst enemy!
Vote all Republicans out of office!
Ocean Joe
November 4, 2023 at 5:40 pm
Actually a pretty good speech. Who will lead these people out of the wilderness? Romney and Cheney and Kinzinger cant because they are too decent. Another electoral drubbing might do it, but of course Democrats set themselves up for a close election by sticking with Biden.
Scott
November 7, 2023 at 3:41 am
Posterity will remember Chris Christie for perhaps Bridgegate and for recommending to Trump his personal attorney during Bridgegate, Christopher Wray, as FBI Director.
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