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Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and one of five remaining GOP primary candidates, received boos from the audience during the fourth GOP debate. The audience voiced their disapproval at comments Christie made regarding Donald Trump — specifically, that Trump might not even be able to vote in the next election on account of the 91 criminal charges pending against him.
Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman applauds Christie for his honesty but laments that the former governor is only polling at around 3%. Pakman concludes that GOP voters are “addicted to Trump” like a drug and do not want to hear anything that threatens their addiction, regardless of the facts.
Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Christie is saying everything right, and the Republican Party wants nothing to do with him.
This conflict between 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie and the other Republican candidates vying for the slot almost certainly to be filled by Donald Trump and Republican voters came to a head in the fourth and final [sic] 2023 Republican debate, hosted by News Nation. Chris Christie was brutally booed by the audience of that debate when he said, “Hey, you know what, we’re all going to go vote next year. And that’s something Trump may not even be allowed to do, because he’s going to be convicted of felonies, and he’s going to lose his right to vote.” And the crowd booed and they went crazy, and nobody else on stage agreed with him.
We have an extraordinary situation right now. Chris Christie, from the beginning, has been the one candidate who is not running for second place. He is not auditioning to be Donald Trump’s vice president. And he has been by far the most honest and direct about the crisis facing the Republican Party.
The Republican Party failed in 2018, failed in 2020, failed in 2022, failed in November’s 2023 election, and now they seem destined — 60-plus percent of the Republican primary electorate supports Trump — they seem destined to select the guy facing four criminal trials [and] 91 felony charges to be their nominee. Chris Christie thinks this is a bad idea. Chris Christie is not beating around the bush.
