Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to announce next week that he will run for president again.
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to announce Tuesday that he will run for president again, according to a person familiar with his thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm Christie’s plans.
Christie, who also ran for president in 2016, has been a longtime Trump ally but broke with the former president over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.
Christie, who also ran for president in 2016, has been a longtime Trump ally but broke with the former president over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.
Since then, he has become one of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics
Christie will make the announcement at a town hall Tuesday evening at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics, according to a person familiar with his thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm Christie’s plans.
The time, that was first reported by Axiosit comes after several longtime Christie advisers started a super political action committee to support his expected bid.
Christie, 60, will join a growing GOP field that also includes former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and businessman Vivek. Ramaswamy.
Christie, who also ran for president in 2016, has been a longtime Trump ally but broke with the former president over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.
Christie has since become one of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics. After Trump’s CNN town hall earlier this month, Christie called Trump “a coward” and “a puppet” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Soon after, former New Jersey Gov he told ABC’s “This Week.” that he thinks Trump needs a challenger who doesn’t “like himself.”
The other Republican candidates, Christie said, “hope he’ll implode and if they’re nice to him, they’ll inherit his voters. It’s all like the political science classroom theory they’re involved in, which I think is a proposition loser for any of these candidates.
“You can’t beat Donald Trump by playing bumper pool and hitting him three cushions and hoping he goes in the hole. That’s not how it works.”
A Quinnipiac University Poll released last week found that 2 percent of Republicans or Republican-leaning voters support Christie, well behind Trump’s 56 percent and DeSantis’ 25 percent.
Christie served as governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. He dropped out of the 2016 presidential race after poor showings in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
