Chris Christie knocks Trump's 2024 bid: 'It's not going to end nicely'
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday predicted former President Donald Trump’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination could be blocked if an opponent is able to challenge him on the debate stage.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday predicted former President Donald Trump’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination could be blocked if an opponent is able to challenge him on the debate stage.
“You better have somebody on that stage who can do to him what I did to [Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.], because that’s the only thing that’s gonna defeat Donald Trump,” Christie said during a town hall at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, according to the Associated Press.
Christie recalled a notable moment from his unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign, in which he challenged Rubio's lack of experience on a debate stage three days before the first primary in the campaign cycle. In response to Christie, Rubio repeated himself twice, and Christie replied: “There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody.”
“And that means you gotta have the skill to do it. And that means you have to be fearless because he will come back and right at you,” he added.
Christie then suggested that Trump’s 2024 challenger must have the “skill” to debate the former president, predicting that such a scenario is “not going to end nicely” for Trump.
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