Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has filed the paperwork to run for president with the FEC.
Christie is expected to make a formal announcement tonight and has positioned himself as the Republican candidate most willing and capable of challenging former President Donald Trump.
The New York Times reports:
In making a second run for the presidency, Mr. Christie, 60, has positioned himself as the person most willing to attack both Mr. Trump, his former friend turned adversary, and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has been in second place in nearly every public Republican primary poll for months. Mr. Christie’s presence in the race could be unwelcome for Mr. DeSantis, for whom every additional candidate harms his ability to consolidate support.
Mr. Christie, who is set to announce his run at a town-hall-style event in New Hampshire Tuesday evening, has already begun laying out an aggressive case against Mr. Trump based on the former president’s policies — namely, that he made a number of promises that he never delivered. That case is one that other hopefuls have generally sidestepped, instead largely avoiding saying Mr. Trump’s name. By contrast, Mr. Christie has gone directly at him.
He has mocked Mr. Trump’s dwindling crowd sizes, called him a loser and said that he crossed a line with his actions that led a pro-Trump mob to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
And he has described himself as able to capture the nomination. “I am the viable Trump alternative,” Mr. Christie recently told The Daily Beast.
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< 1% of conservatives by weight like Christie.
Christie’s as phony as Biden. Get lost loser.