{"id":2010317,"date":"2023-08-24T01:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-chris-christie-scoffs-over-receiving-concluding-ufo-question\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T01:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:46:56","slug":"republican-debate-chris-christie-scoffs-over-receiving-concluding-ufo-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-chris-christie-scoffs-over-receiving-concluding-ufo-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie dismisses UFO question at Republican debate."},"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\">16<\/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%2Frepublican-debate-chris-christie-scoffs-over-receiving-concluding-ufo-question%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=2010317&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 \u200dGov. Chris \u200dChristie&#8217;s Reaction to UFO Question<\/h2>\n<p>During Fox News&#8217;s first Republican presidential primary debate, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-requires-competency-former-pennsylvania-senator-rick-santorum-on-whether-john-fetterman-can-do-the-job-with-serious-health-issues\/\" title=\"\u2018It Requires Competency\u2019: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum On Whether John Fetterman Can Do The Job With Serious Health Issues\">moderators posed<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-clinton-winfrey-team-up-to-convince-manchin-to-kill-filibuster-report\/\" title=\"Obama, Clinton, Winfrey Team Up To Convince Manchin To Kill Filibuster: Report\">lightning round<\/a> of questions on various topics. However,\u2062 one question stood out from the rest &#8211; it was about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets\/\" title=\"Schumer pushes for UFO secrets to be revealed.\">unidentified\u200d flying objects<\/a>\u200b (UFOs). And it didn&#8217;t sit well with Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI get the UFO \u200dquestion?\u201d Christie exclaimed, clearly amused \u200cby \u2063the unexpected topic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But despite his \u2062initial reaction, moderator Martha MacCallum pressed on, causing laughter to fill the room.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing a lot of\u2063 testimony in Congress, and people \u200bare\u200d taking this a lot\u200c more seriously. If you were\u2062 president &#8230; would you level \u200bwith the American people about what the \u200bgovernment \u200dknows about these\u200d possible encounters?\u201d MacCallum\u2063 asked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christie couldn&#8217;t \u2064help but respond with\u200c a touch of humor,\u2063 still finding the\u200b question amusing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s horrible that just [because] I\u2019m from New \u2063Jersey,\u200d you asked \u2063me about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-dni-chief-ufos-seen-that-replicate-technology-unavailable-to-humans\/\" title=\"Former DNI Chief: UFOs Seen That Replicate Technology Unavailable To Humans\">unidentified flying objects<\/a> and Martians,\u201d Christie chuckled.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, despite his initial \u2063displeasure, Christie proceeded to provide \u2063an answer.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe job of\u200c the president \u200bof the United States is \u2064to level with \u2063the American \u200bpeople about \u2063everything. The job of the president of \u2064the United States is \u2063to stand for truth, the job of the president of the\u2063 United \u200bStates is to\u2064 be a\u200d role model \u200bfor our children and our grandchildren,\u201d he stated, before \u2064shifting the \u200bfocus to \u2062the issue of\u200d education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s reaction resonated with other commentators who also found the \u200cUFO \u2062question out of place.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is\u200d a dumb subject \u200bfor a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-undecided-on-if-hell-participate-in-first-republican-debate\/\" title=\"Trump unsure about joining first GOP debate.\">presidential \u200cdebate<\/a> \u2062(ufos),&#8221; journalist \u200dMegyn\u2063 Kelly posted on X, formerly known\u200c as Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>unidentified flying objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010318,"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-2010317","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\/2010317","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=2010317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}