Republican strategist Mike Murphy called Chris Christie’s entry into the race for the 2024 Republican nomination “entertaining.”
The former New Jersey governor will reportedly
announce his candidacy “in the coming days.”
He ran against Trump in 2016, but dropped out and became the first major ex-candidate to endorse Donald Trump. Christie has since become one of Trump’s
harshest critics on the right.
Some have speculated that Christie is not running to win, but rather to try to sabotage Trump in his bid to win the nomination again. Christie denies the charge.
“I’m not a paid assassin,” he
said last month.
Chris Christie’s relentless attacks on Marco Rubio during a 2016 Republican presidential that effectively knocked the Florida senator out of the race was at the time likened to a “murder-suicide.”
Now news that the former New Jersey governor is considering launching another longshot presidential bid has fueled speculation that Christie could be on another such mission, only this time, his target would be former President Donald
Trump,
The Washington Post reports.
The Post’s Aaron Blake writes that despite abysmal poll numbers, “signs are building that Christie will again decide to run for president at what is decidedly the wrong time — even more than 2016 was. And while he has insisted
this isn’t just a kamikaze mission to take down Donald Trump, it’s difficult to see how it could amount to much else.”
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Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is preparing to announce his entrance into the 2024 GOP presidential race “in the coming days,” according to a report.
The report came from
“New Hampshire Today” host Chris Ryan on Thursday, who cited “multiple sources with direct knowledge.”
The report notes that the Christie campaign will focus on New Hampshire and have the “financial backing” of billionaire New York Mets owner Steve Cohen.
Hedge fund founder Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served in the Trump administration, said Wednesday that he
plans to back Christie in the GOP primary and also expects Cohen and other Wall Street execs to bankroll the campaign.
Cohen spent millions supporting pro-Christie super PACs during the former governor’s failed 2016 bid for the White House.
