{"id":1995271,"date":"2023-08-09T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-challenges-trump-to-show-up-to-debate-say-it-to-my-face\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:45:23","slug":"chris-christie-challenges-trump-to-show-up-to-debate-say-it-to-my-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-challenges-trump-to-show-up-to-debate-say-it-to-my-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie dares Trump to debate in person: &#8216;Say it to my face&#8217;"},"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-challenges-trump-to-show-up-to-debate-say-it-to-my-face%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=1995271&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>Chris Christie Challenges Trump to\u2064 Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie has fired back at former President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-challenges-trump-to-show-up-to-debate-say-it-to-my-face\/\" title=\"Chris Christie dares Trump to debate in person: 'Say it to my face'\">weight-shaming comments<\/a> by daring\u200d him to attend the upcoming Republican presidential debate. Christie, who has been one of Trump&#8217;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-questions-on-why-vp-harris-hasnt-spoken-out-on-gov-cuomo-after-doing-so-with-kavanaugh\/\" title=\"Psaki Dodges Questions On Why VP Harris Hasn\u2019t Spoken Out On Gov. Cuomo After Doing So With Kavanaugh\">vocal critics<\/a> within the\u200b Republican primary, responded \u200dto the former president&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-condemns-anti-jewish-hate-in-wake-of-jayapal-controversy\/\" title=\"White House denounces anti-Jewish hate after Jayapal controversy.\">remarks\u2063 made<\/a> during a rally in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Christie \u2014 he&#8217;s eating right now. He can&#8217;t be bothered,&#8221; \u2062Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comments came in response to a member of the audience calling Christie a &#8220;fat\u2064 pig,&#8221; to which Trump urged \u2064for respect.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Sir, please do not call him a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-restaurant-sign-calling-people-who-wear-masks-sheep-is-not-real\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: No, This Restaurant Sign Calling People Who Wear Masks \u2018Sheep\u2019 Is Not Real\">fat pig<\/a>. That&#8217;s very\u2063 disrespectful. Don&#8217;t call him \u2014 see, I&#8217;m\u2063 trying to be nice \u2014 don&#8217;t call him a fat pig. You can&#8217;t do it. You can&#8217;t do that. So now,\u200d because you&#8217;re not allowed to do that, and, therefore, we&#8217;re not going to do it, OK? We want to be very civil, right?&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christie didn&#8217;t back down and challenged Trump\u200d to \u200dconfront him directly at the debate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If you had the \u200bguts, you would show up \u200bto the\u200d debate\u200d and say it to my face,&#8221; Christie responded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump later claimed on Truth Social that he \u2062was &#8220;extremely respectful&#8221; towards &#8220;Sloppy Chris Christie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I was\u2062 extremely respectful of Sloppy Chris Christie today in New Hampshire. During a speech\u200b in front \u2062of a\u200b large crowd of Patriots, somebody shouted out that &#8216;Chris Christie is\u2062 a fat pig.&#8217; Rather than acknowledging that, which many speakers \u2062would have done, I said, &#8216;No, No, he is not a fat pig.&#8217; I&#8217;m sure Chris would have been \u2062very happy\u2062 with my defense of him!&#8221; Trump posted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christie is set to participate in the first Republican presidential primary debate on\u2062 August 23, along with several other GOP candidates. However, it remains uncertain whether Trump will join the debate in Milwaukee, \u200bWisconsin.<\/p>\n<h3>Current Polling Numbers<\/h3>\n<p>According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Christie \u2062is currently in seventh place with 2.3% support for the GOP nomination. Trump leads the pack with 53.9%, followed by Gov.\u200d Ron DeSantis (R-FL)\u2063 with 15.9%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> \u200c to read\u2062 more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie, a Republican candidate, countered Donald Trump&#8217;s weight mockery by daring him to join the upcoming GOP debate. Christie, known for his strong opposition to Trump during the primary, swiftly responded to the former president&#8217;s remarks made at a New Hampshire rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1995272,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1995271","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}