and everyone is blaming the prosecutors. he did it. it s his conduct. and you can hear him there, jake, he s almost mocking trump. and for chris christie to do that, who s obviously been a very outspoken critic of trump lately, is not surprising. but when you look at the entirety of the relationship, it certainly is. obviously, i covered trump on the campaign trail the first time around. kristie dropped out, endorsed trump, was boosting him on the campaign trail. i was there in 2020, when christie was inside the white house, helping trump prepare for the debates against president biden. and tonight, obviously, he s running against him for this nomination, but offering a very fierce criticism and essentially making fun of trump for taking the boxes and having this obsession with him, an obsession that is clear when
in front of voters. he is very natural and comfortable in that setting. and he understands how to navigate these questions and get to the heart of the question. i think you saw someone just like nikki haley in some ways who is very practiced very rehearsed, this is not their first rodeo. and when you ask the question of who is going to be willing on the debate stage to do that not just in front of voters but to donald trump s face, and then you can see christie being able to do that. and jamie, one of the things that s interesting also in terms of the criticisms that you gave, that he gave president trump which were numerous and frequent. was he basically called him incompetent on the issue of immigration. donald trump didn t offer one piece of legislation the past on immigration period now he s blaming joe biden calling him incompetent i think it bothered donald trump more than calling him vein, i don t think being called vain bothers him. but loser loser came out early and
but again, this will be one of the defining debates of our time, and certainly of this coming election. and i think that that group he is trying to appeal to and stands to grow with, which is independents and moderates, he s going to have to define and lane in terms of where he is on jobs in the post-dobbs era. yeah, and that, paul, he did not do that. no, he is a guy who does not want to live and die on social issues. he is not a right-wing social warrior. you know, ron desantis, to paraphrase joe biden, every sentence is a noun a verb and woke. just christie doesn t want to live there. i thought i was refreshing as a democrat. and i bet you there are a lot of republicans who feel that way. it s kind of like taking on trump for being too selfish, rather than to corrupt. and he did, he almost had it,
when he said trump, i want to be your retribution. the next line has to be i want to be your economic recovery. right, something about you. he was on the saying he ll get there. i m sorry to be such a campaign manager. but that s where he wanted to get. and when he was talking christie has a reputation as a bully. and his town hall meetings in new jersey, he was famous for calling people jerks, like teachers who is fighting with. yes, oh yeah, i remember some of these soundbites. i was really pleased. you can see the chip go off. he was talking at that poor man. but in mid answer, it changed. something happened. and that s great, it shows he s living in the moment. i don t know how anyone can live with that man s pain. and how many politicians can look at him and not feel that pain. so, good, good for him for making that mid course correction. you know, he said, he said
kristie made it about you. he said i m going to be a fighter for you. don t fight for himself. i hope joe biden was watching because this, i think biden did that that s what he won. the way to take on trump is not simply to attack trump s character,, it s not to attack trump s voters. i m real tired of people running the it s to say to those voters he has failed you. 82 counties with the heidi s, the highest opioid addiction, 75 voted voted for trump. 85 of the ten trump has failed you, read america, he has failed you, trump america. this is what christie is getting it. i think he is on his way to a really powerful way to take on trump. he got a question from the woman in south carolina, one of the first questions anderson took, who had brought up the baby formula issue. she said she was a trump voter ,