Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Latest Jersey Chris Christie arrives to talk on the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference on the Washington Hilton on June 23, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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Former Latest Jersey Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie launched his latest blitz against Donald Trump on “Fox News Sunday.”
He claimed that the previous president has lied concerning the size of his rally crowds and did not keep his policy guarantees.
“The people within the Republican Party, and quite broadly across America, are bored with having political candidates who’re snake oil salesmen who just don’t tell them the reality, who tell them whatever they think they need to hear in the mean time,” Christie told Fox News.
Christie deemed the estimated sizes of Trump’s rally crowds “absurd.”
“Tens of hundreds don’t show up anymore. That is one other one among the large lies,” he added. “All you may have to do is have a look at the images.”
Christie has turn out to be one among Trump’s most vocal critics, whilst the previous president who’s currently embroiled in several criminal investigations carries a big polling lead within the GOP’s crowded candidate pool.
Trump and Christie also diverge on Social Security reform.
Trump has rejected cutting this system in any respect. Within the Sunday interview, Christie was much more staunch in his stance on means testing for Social Security, which might exclude people at higher incomes from receiving those advantages. He also stood by his proposal to lift the retirement age.
“Do the extraordinarily wealthy must collect Social Security? Can we actually need to have Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk collecting Social Security?” he said.
A former U.S. attorney, Christie also criticized the five-year-long investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes, saying it’s “either a lie or it’s incompetent.”
“There is no way that it should take five years to get to a two-count misdemeanor tax plea after which to dismiss the gun charges” against President Joe Biden’s son, he said.
Christie launched his long-shot bid on June 6 and is trailing Trump’s numbers at around 2.5%, though he has gained some steam relative to other candidates, in keeping with aggregated polling from RealClear Politics. The previous governor has also touted big donors supporting his campaign.
To secure a spot within the Republican primary debates starting in August, the GOP candidates can have to get 40,000 contributor donations and poll above 1% in either three national polls, or two national polls and one state poll.