But just became clear pretty fast that there was no republican appetite in 2016 for what he had to offer. And then, interesting decision, Chris Christie saw the writing on the wall earlier than the rest of the republican president ial contenders did. And as he dropped out of the race, again, early on, he endorsed donald trump and that was at a time when no prominent republicans were fixing their cart to that particular horse. I mean, at the time, Chris Christie plighted his troth with donald trump, he was alone. I mean, the closest trump had to some other high profile endorsement at that time was failed 2008 president ial candidate Rudy Giuliani admitting publicly that, yes, okay, hed admit it, he sometimes spoke to trump by phone. I mean, even Rudy Giuliani was not willing to endorse that guy at that point in 2016, but christie came right out and did. And it was an unusual decision. And everybody assumed that maybe some of the political logic there was that christie was gunning for th