Chris Christie vows to match Trump’s 2016 loyalty pledge.

Chris Christie Vows to Support GOP Nominee in 2024

Republican 2024 presidential candidate Chris Christie is determined to uphold the party’s pledge to support the eventual nominee, just as former President Donald Trump did in 2016.

During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Christie highlighted how Trump, despite signing the pledge to participate in the debates, had reservations about supporting the nominee depending on their identity.

“As you’ll remember, Reince Priebus had to go up to Trump Tower to get him to sign it, to ask him to do so. He did, and then we went to a subsequent debate, and we were all asked if we would reaffirm our support of whoever the nominee was going to be by raising our hand. There were 10 of us on the stage; nine of us raised our hands. The one who didn’t was Donald Trump. And so I’ll take the pledge in 2024 just as seriously as Donald Trump took the pledge in 2016,” Christie said.

However, Christie expressed his skepticism about the effectiveness of a signed pledge, stating that he had conveyed his concerns to Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

“All my life, we never had to have Republican primary candidates take a pledge. You know, we were Republicans. And the idea is you support the Republican whether you won or lost. And you didn’t have to ask somebody to sign something. It’s only in the era of Donald Trump that you need somebody to sign something on a pledge. So I think it’s a bad idea. I’ve expressed that to Ronna Romney McDaniel personally, directly. This is not the first time she’s hearing it,” Christie said.

Furthermore, Christie held Trump responsible for the Republican Party’s losses in the 2022 midterm elections, labeling him a “three-time loser.”

“I will do what I need to do, to be up on that stage and save my party and country from going down the road of being led by three-time loser Donald Trump,” said Christie. “Loser in 2018 by losing the House; Loser in 2020 by losing the White House, and the United States Senate, and the worst midterm performance we’ve seen in a long long time led by Donald Trump-selected candidates, with Donald Trump as the main issue in most of those races. Loser, loser, loser,” he continued.

Despite Trump’s current lead in the GOP field according to polling data, recent polls suggest that his advantage may be diminishing at the national and state levels.

According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is in second place, while former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, and the rest of the field trail behind the two Florida contenders.

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