{"id":1916547,"date":"2023-04-19T04:25:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-says-he-will-decide-his-presidential-candidacy-in-next-couple-weeks\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:30:14","slug":"chris-christie-says-he-will-decide-his-presidential-candidacy-in-next-couple-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-says-he-will-decide-his-presidential-candidacy-in-next-couple-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie Says He Will Decide His Presidential Candidacy in \u2018Next Couple Weeks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-christie-says-he-will-decide-his-presidential-candidacy-in-next-couple-weeks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0418\/ca7df3db-aa87-4687-a9b3-80cd8849a86a\/audio.mp3?length=5321133&#038;duration=443\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has not decided on another run for president yet, but he is testing the waters.<\/p>\n<p>In an April 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H3xSnrb2h6Q\">interview<\/a> with Semafor editor-at-large Steve Clemons, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate revealed that he will make a decision on a potential campaign \u201cin the next couple weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRNC [Republican National Committee] is setting up some rules for the debates that are going to require certain milestones to be met by mid-August to qualify for the stage,\u201d Christie noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re talking about requiring 40,000 individual donors to qualify for the stage, so, you know, that takes a little time to do. And so, if you\u2019re going to be serious about this\u2014and I think you have to be on the stage to be serious about it\u2014then you probably have to make a decision by May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To date, five Republicans have declared their candidacy for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, including former President Donald Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and businessman Perry Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina recently announced an exploratory committee, and speculation that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will enter the race continues to mount.<\/p>\n<p>Christie, however, appeared undeterred by the expanding field of competition, noting that he had faced worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis looks like a vacant field compared to what I dealt with in 2016,\u201d he said. \u201cIn 2016, we had 17 candidates for the Republican nomination, and we had to have two separate debates because there were so many people. And even with the debates that I was in, there were 10 of us. It was a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Shift in Perspective<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In February 2016, Christie dropped out of the presidential race after a disappointing New Hampshire primary in which he finished sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, he became the first establishment Republican to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=christie+endorses+donald+trump&#038;tbm=vid&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwja7O7A1LP-AhV-m2oFHfC6CYEQ0pQJegQICRAB&#038;biw=1280&#038;bih=569&#038;dpr=1.5#fpstate=ive&#038;vld=cid:7aab6a2a,vid:ptvQ7B3szcU\">endorse<\/a> then-candidate Donald Trump, whom he said had been a \u201cgood and loyal friend\u201d to him for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in recounting the story on April 18, he gave the impression that he supported Trump because he did not want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen anybody\u2019s ever critical of my support of Donald Trump, I tell them, \u2018Well, I made the decision that I didn\u2019t want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can agree or disagree with that, but my only two choices were those two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd let me say this, it\u2019s not like I supported him from the beginning\u2014I ran against him. I didn\u2019t think he was the best choice for president. I thought I was, but that didn\u2019t work out, so then we\u2019re left with a choice. And I think the American people were disgruntled with that choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While at one point, Christie counted himself among the 45<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">th<\/span>\u00a0president\u2019s supporters, according to the former governor, that support ended after the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe morning after the election, after the president was done giving his speech where he said the election was stolen \u2026 I said, \u2018That is beneath the office that he has held. You cannot stand up there and say the election was stolen when you have absolutely no facts to support it, and I cannot be supportive of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing Trump\u2019s assertions that the election was stolen as \u201clies,\u201d Christie added, \u201cTo me, that\u2019s where the line was crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Currently, Trump leads the Republican pack by a wide margin that has only grown wider since his recent indictment by a Manhattan grand jury on falsification of business records charges.<\/p>\n<p>That case, brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, allegedly relates to hush money payments made during the 2016 election cycle to women who claimed to have engaged in extramarital affairs with Trump, including adult film actress Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in on the matter on April 16, Christie, a former prosecutor, said: \u201cAs a prosecutor, I wouldn\u2019t have brought the prosecution Alvin Bragg brought because I don\u2019t think <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has not decided on another run for president yet, but he is testing the waters. In an April 18 interview with Semafor editor-at-large Steve Clemons, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate revealed that he will make a decision on a potential campaign \u201cin the next couple weeks.\u201d \u201cRNC [Republican National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":1916548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[18574,4270,7905,11660,11708,3816,3849,11266],"class_list":["post-1916547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-candidacy","tag-chris","tag-christie","tag-couple","tag-decide","tag-next","tag-presidential","tag-weeks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}