{"id":1945652,"date":"2023-06-06T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/born-to-run-chris-christie-files-paperwork-for-presidential-run\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:32:30","slug":"born-to-run-chris-christie-files-paperwork-for-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/born-to-run-chris-christie-files-paperwork-for-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie files paperwork for presidential run."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fborn-to-run-chris-christie-files-paperwork-for-presidential-run%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=1945652&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--><h2>Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Launches 2024 Presidential Campaign<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie on Tuesday formally launched his 2024 presidential campaign, joining a growing Republican field led by former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christie, who served as an adviser to Trump&#8217;s successful 2016 campaign but has since become a vocal critic over his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/born-to-run-chris-christie-files-paperwork-for-presidential-run\/\" title=\"Chris Christie files paperwork for presidential run.\">filed paperwork declaring<\/a> his candidacy. He is scheduled to announce his White House bid later on Tuesday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<h3>Christie&#8217;s Unique Selling Point<\/h3>\n<p>A former federal prosecutor, Christie, 60, has argued he is the only potential rival with the skills and willingness to attack Trump directly.<\/p>\n<p>Christie has not fared well in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fight-night-kamala-v-pete\/\" title=\"Fight Night: Kamala v. Pete\">public opinion polling<\/a> thus far, however. He netted just 1 percent support from potential Republican primary voters in a Reuters\/Ipsos poll in May, compared to Trump&#8217;s 49 percent support and Florida governor Ron DeSantis&#8217;s 19 percent support.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Republican Contenders<\/h3>\n<p>Other Republicans seeking to challenge President Joe Biden include former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and U.S. senator Tim Scott. Former vice president Mike Pence is set to enter the race on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h3>Christie&#8217;s Past Presidential Bid and Bridgegate Scandal<\/h3>\n<p>Christie ran for president in 2016 but ended his bid after a disappointing finish in the New Hampshire primary and became the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-tees-up-kamala-2028-with-changes-in-primary-calendar-as-her-popularity-sinks\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Tees Up Kamala 2028 With Changes In Primary Calendar As Her Popularity Sinks\">major party figure<\/a> to throw his support behind Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He first emerged as a national figure on the strength of his two terms from 2009 to 2017 as governor of Democratic-leaning New Jersey, where his confrontational approach to politics earned him plaudits from admirers and accusations of bullying from detractors. His tenure was tarnished by the so-called &#8220;Bridgegate&#8221; scandal, in which two allies deliberately shut down lanes at the heavily trafficked George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City to punish a local mayor for failing to endorse Christie&#8217;s reelection. Christie has said he was unaware of the plot at the time, but witnesses at a criminal trial for the two allies testified that the governor knew about the lane closures.<\/p>\n<h3>Christie&#8217;s Role in the 2024 Presidential Race<\/h3>\n<p>That strategy may entice Republican voters who are ready to move past Trump, but it remains unclear whether any Republican can prevail without the support of Trump&#8217;s still-loyal base. As an underdog, Christie could end up playing the role of spoiler, a position he found himself occupying in 2016, when his dissection of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio at a debate days before Christie dropped out of the race blunted Rubio&#8217;s momentum.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Joseph AxEditing by Colleen Jenkins and Alistair Bell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor, has launched his 2024 presidential campaign, joining a Republican field led by Donald Trump. Christie, who was an adviser to Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign, filed paperwork. Despite this, he has become a vocal critic of Trump&#8217;s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1945653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[4270,7905,5665,15560,3849,9250],"class_list":["post-1945652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-chris","tag-christie","tag-files","tag-paperwork","tag-presidential","tag-run"],"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\/1945652","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}