Chris Christie on Donald Trump: ‘The idea of making predictions for 2024 is folly’
“I do not know that he will run. I do not know whether or not I will run,” Christie, a longtime good friend and high-profile supporter of Trump, advised CNN’s Dana Bash in a clip from “Being… Chris Christie,” the second episode in CNN’s “Being…” collection that may air in full on Monday, November 15 at 10 p.m. ET.
Pressed by Bash if he would assist Trump ought to the previous President run once more, Christie stated that whereas the previous President is “severely contemplating it,” Christie want to “see what occurs when he does.”
“Let’s examine who he’s and what he says and the way he conducts himself,” Christie stated.
Regardless of Trump’s actions since Election Day 2020, Christie is just not going to invest about how he might behave transferring ahead whereas there are nonetheless three years till the following presidential election, he stated.
“I am not going to sit down right here in 2021 and pre-judge all this. I voted for him in ’16 and in ’20. On election night time in ’20, I stated that what he was doing was completely horrible and flawed and continued to be. You possibly can draw no matter conclusions from that you really want. However in the long run, in 2021, the concept of constructing predictions for 2024 is folly,” Christie stated.
“There isn’t any purpose to create tumult in a celebration that already has quite a lot of tumult in it,” he stated.
Christie, whose new e-book “Republican Rescue: Saving the Celebration From Reality Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Harmful Insurance policies of Joe Biden” comes out Tuesday, has in current weeks been vocal about his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the GOP. He is delivering a message to Republicans that the one approach for the social gathering to proceed constructing on this month’s electoral successes is to maneuver past previous elections.
“We are able to not discuss concerning the previous and the previous elections — irrespective of the place you stand on that problem, irrespective of the place you stand, it’s over,” Christie advised a number of the Republican Celebration’s most influential donors and bundlers on the time. “Each minute that we spend speaking about 2020 — whereas we’re losing time doing that, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are laying wreck to this nation. We higher deal with that and take our eyes off the rearview mirror and begin wanting by the windshield once more.”