{"id":2043322,"date":"2023-09-24T17:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-weighs-in-on-running-against-bob-menendez-in-the-u-s-senate\/"},"modified":"2023-09-24T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:22:43","slug":"chris-christie-weighs-in-on-running-against-bob-menendez-in-the-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-weighs-in-on-running-against-bob-menendez-in-the-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie considers challenging Bob Menendez for U.S. Senate."},"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\">18<\/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-weighs-in-on-running-against-bob-menendez-in-the-u-s-senate%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=2043322&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: No Interest in Running\u2062 Against Indicted Senator<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republican\u200d presidential candidate Chris Christie made it clear that he has \u2063no intention of running against \u2063Senator Bob Menendez, who was recently indicted on federal corruption charges. During an interview on NBC News&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press,&#8221; Christie addressed the indictment and the Republican party&#8217;s claims of a two-tiered justice system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christie, a former U.S. attorney in New Jersey, \u2063expressed his satisfaction with the Justice Department&#8217;s\u200c actions, stating, &#8220;I commend\u2063 the Southern District of New York for doing the right thing.&#8221; He emphasized the severity of the charges against Menendez, highlighting the discovery of\u2063 large \u200csums \u2062of cash\u2064 and gold bars with incriminating\u2063 evidence.<\/p>\n<p>While Christie acknowledged that not all of the Department of Justice has engaged in wrongdoing, \u2062he did \u2062express concern over a plea \u200ddeal offered to Hunter Biden by U.S. Attorney David Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he would consider running against Menendez if \u2064he didn&#8217;t win the presidential election, Christie firmly responded, &#8220;No, I have no interest \u2062in being in the United States Senate.&#8221; He explained that he had the opportunity\u2062 to appoint himself to \u2064the \u200bSenate in 2013 but chose not to, making it clear \u200cthat he has no desire to\u200d pursue a Senate seat.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the interview:<\/h3>\n[insert video link here]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican candidate Chris Christie stated that he is not interested in running against Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) following Menendez&#8217;s recent federal corruption charges. Christie made this clear during an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press,&#8221; addressing the topic and the indictment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2043323,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2043322","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}