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Despite being indicted for a second time, former President Trump remains the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. The crowded GOP field added one more challenger with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie entering the race.
While some observers call his chances of winning the nomination a long shot, Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman says Christie’s moderate views and sharp debate skills could make him the biggest threat to Trump in the GOP primary.
Chris Christie has had a sort of spineless energy to him in a way. And that’s in the sense that in 2016, even after brutally attacking Trump and saying Trump’s got no business here, he endorsed Trump, and he stood up there behind Trump and he looked sick to his stomach, but he did it. He endorsed Trump.
He has been increasingly critical of Trump over the last couple of years, particularly since the end of Trump’s presidency into Joe Biden’s presidency. And he is now running and I have to tell you, Chris Christie is a good debater. Ron DeSantis is not a good debater. Nikki Haley is a mediocre debater. Mike Pence stays on message but he’s extraordinarily milquetoast. Chris Christie can and has made people look really stupid during debates. Go back and check out some of the 2016 exchanges with Marco Rubio, for example.
In addition to that, Chris Christie is smart, even though his politics don’t align with mine. He is a smart guy — you can tell when listening to him talk that he is a much smarter guy than many of the other people running. [Christie is a] former prosecutor and importantly, he is more moderate. He’s still well to my Right — I’m on the Left, he’s a Republican — but he is way more moderate than religious extremist Mike Pence or wacky anti-woke clown Ron DeSantis, or totally off-the-wall extremist Donald Trump.
