Chris Christie: Trump ‘reruns will be worse than the original show’

HENNIKER, N.H. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered his opening arguments towards Donald Trump on Thursday, sounding just like the prosecutor he as soon as was and the presidential candidate he may turn into once more.

“Tonight is the beginning of the case against Donald Trump,” Christie stated in New Hampshire, the place he devoted his total opening remarks at a city corridor assembly to pounding on the previous president he as soon as supported.

“You’re not going to beat someone by closing your eyes, clicking your heels together three times and saying, ‘There’s no place like home.’ That’s not going to work,” he stated. “In American politics you want to beat somebody? You have to go get them.”

Christie referred to as out a number of Republican candidates and potential candidates – together with former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley – for barely uttering Trump’s identify and argued that Trump’s coverage and character failures would solely develop if he returns to workplace.

“Donald Trump is a TV star, nothing more, nothing less,” he stated. “Let me suggest to you that in putting him back in the White House, the reruns will be worse than the original show.”

As he nears a call on his personal marketing campaign, Christie is spending two days within the state the place he completed a dismal sixth place within the 2016 GOP main. He endorsed Trump quickly after dropping out of that 12 months’s race and later labored on his presidential transition staff. In 2020, he labored with Trump on his debate prep towards Joe Biden however broke with Trump after he refused to simply accept his lack of the election and spurred the Jan. 6 rebel on the U.S. Capitol.

Since then, Christie has emerged as one of many few distinguished GOP Trump critics, largely by way of his place as an ABC political analyst.

He stated Thursday he gained’t stand by and let Trump win.