then we were divided in 2020. so, the way i would go about it is very direct and very simple. that there is no bad opinion. you want to express your opinion in this country, express it i want to hear. and then everybody gets a round table and resolve our issues. one of the time. the same way we used to do at dinner parties for the last eight or ten years. it wasn t like there weren t political differences to discuss. it s just that people did not start throwing their cutlery and it was a little more civilized. and it was not as if our democracy was at stake. see, in the end if you make everything a crisis, and it will be. and i heard the president today, joe biden earlier today talking about how he was concerned about democracy of donald trump getting elected again. and then i heard donald trump yelling and screaming about how badly he s been treated, these two guys need to stop worrying so much about themselves and start worrying about you. my approach to being president wou
to this that is not constructive in our country. joe biden looked all of us in the eye in 2020 and said, elect me and i ll bring us together. and then he ran far left and abandoned most of the country philosophically. so, how could he be the uniter in a second term? a second term all he ll do is keep doing what he s doing, which is dividing the country even more than we were divided in 2020. so, the way i would go about it is very direct and very simple, that there is no bad opinion. you want to express your opinion in this country, express it. i want to hear it. and then everybody gets around the table and resolves our issues one at a time. the same way we used to do at dinner parties before the last eight or ten years. wasn t like there weren t political differences discussed. it s just people didn t start throwing the cutlery. it was a little more civilized. and it wasn t as if our democracy was at stake. see, in the end, if you make everything a crisis, then it will be. a
Authentic quality of chris christie. now, does it making a culture warrior? does it make him a very partisan idealogue? which in some ways is in vogue right now. but it does make him engaging. make some serious. and honestly, it makes him seem humbled to me. when a politician looks at you and says i don t have all the answers, but i ll do my best to get to the most unifying answer i can, that is a pretty humble statement in a world that doesn t really reward that right now. all right, but what about on the accuracy of this, right, that there can be more down on the federal level? there are things that could be done at the federal level, if you chose to do them at a federal level, whether be about bump stocks or loophole.
His career had been for an assault weapons ban. here, he was making the argument of i don t really know, and i don t think there s anything else the federal government can do. yeah, he really did not want to lean into some of the culture war topics, guns being one. but republicans want to hear of course is that you are going to defend the individual right to keep and bear arms at all costs. that s what most republican voters want to hear. but he did not want to get into that. numerous times tonight, when he got a question from an audience member, he did it with the south carolina, he did it with that gentlemen, he really lean into their personal story more than sloganeering. the empathy of it. to me, that s the real authentic quality of chris christie. now, does it making a culture warrior? does it make him a very partisan idealogue? which in some ways is in vogue right now. but it does make him engaging. make some serious. and honestly, it makes him seem humbled to me. when a