{"id":738227,"date":"2021-09-10T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=738227"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:50:16","slug":"former-presidential-candidate-chris-christie-takes-apparent-shot-at-trump-amid-2024-hints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-presidential-candidate-chris-christie-takes-apparent-shot-at-trump-amid-2024-hints\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Presidential Candidate Chris Christie Takes Apparent Shot At Trump Amid 2024 Hints"},"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%2Fformer-presidential-candidate-chris-christie-takes-apparent-shot-at-trump-amid-2024-hints%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=738227&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/christie-reagan-foundation-e1631293234449.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican New Jersey Gov. and former presidential candidate Chris Christie called on Republicans to \u201crenounce conspiracy-theorists and truth deniers\u201d during a Thursday speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part of an apparent dig at former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Christie gave his speech as part of the library\u2019s \u201cA Time For Choosing\u201d speaker series, which has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganfoundation.org\/timeforchoosing\/\">featured<\/a> former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pence, Pompeo and Christie are all considered likely to seek the Republican Party\u2019s nomination for president in 2024, as are future speakers for the series, including former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton.<\/p>\n<p>Christie has floated a 2024 run, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/21\/chris-christie-open-running-against-donald-trump-2024\/\">telling<\/a> the Daily Caller News Foundation in December 2020 that he would decide on a 2024 campaign \u201cwithout <span id=\":1uq.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">regard to anybody else who\u2019s running.\u201d<\/span> After <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/07\/20\/gop-donors-beg-chris-christie-to-reconsider-run-for-president\/\">declining<\/a> to run in 2012, he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/02\/10\/christie-creamed-nj-gov-to-drop-out-of-presidential-race\/\">dropped<\/a> out of the 2016 Republican primary following a sixth-place finish in New Hampshire. Friends of Christie <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/21\/report-chris-christie-considering-2024-presidential-run\/\">told<\/a> Axios in April he is \u201cseriously considering\u201d a 2024 run.<\/p>\n<p>Despite supporting Trump after dropping out of the 2016 primaries, including briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/01\/05\/christie-thinks-he-governed-as-well-or-better-than-anybody-whos-ever-had-the-job\/\">serving<\/a> as his transition chief, Christie has since soured on the former president. During the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Christie <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/06\/chris-christie-donald-trump-capitol\/\">said<\/a> that Trump \u201ccaused this protest to occur,\u201d and was \u201cthe only one who can make it stop.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/13\/chris-christie-unloads-trump-team-absurd-legal-theory\/\">(RELATED: \u2018An Absurdity\u2019: Chris Christie Unloads On Trump Team\u2019s Legal Theory)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Onstage at the Reagan Library with Governor Chris Christie\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kwcky1Ef-iM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Christie saved some of his harshest words in the speech for \u201cthe extremists in our midst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Republicans, we need to free ourselves from the quicksand of endless grievances. We need to turn our attention to the future and stop wallowing in the past. We need to face the realities of the 2020 election and learn, not hide from them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to renounce the conspiracy-theorists and the truth deniers, the ones who know better and the ones who are just plain nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we create a new era of American exceptionalism? And how does our party turn the page from our 2020 electoral defeat and move our country forward?\u201d Christie asked.<\/p>\n<p>Christie blamed \u201cprofessional political operatives\u201d for \u201ctelling Republican politicians to\u2026 pander to the lies and the liars. The lies are crazy but just nod and pretend to agree. Say as little as you can and get away and duck when the reporters come to follow up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he urged Republicans to \u201cgive our supporters facts that will help them put those fantasies to rest so everyone can focus with clear minds on the issues that really matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to learn to win, both as Republicans and as Americans,\u201d Christie added.<\/p>\n<p>Many consider the speech an apparent rebuke of Trump, who has remained active as GOP kingmaker, endorsing candidates in both open elections and in primaries against Republican members who voted to impeach him. Trump most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/donald-trump-endorse-harriet-hageman-bid-oust-liz-cheney\/\">endorsed<\/a> Harriet Hageman, a Wyoming-based attorney who is running against one of his harshest intra-party critics, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is also considered a heavy favorite for the GOP\u2019s 2024 nomination if he steps into the race. A June <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/poll-51-republicans-believe-2020-election-results-change\/\">poll<\/a> found that 59% of Republicans want him to play a major role in the future of the party, while 51% believe that he could still become president via state-level challenges to Joe Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also repeatedly floated his candidacy, most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/10\/donald-trump-greg-gutfeld-interview-run-2024-cnn\/\">agreeing<\/a> with Fox News host Greg Gutfeld\u2019s assessment that his 2024 candidacy\u2019s biggest problem would be that he would \u201csave CNN\u201d from falling ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican New Jersey Gov. and former presidential candidate Chris Christie called on Republicans to \u201crenounce conspiracy-theorists and truth deniers\u201d during a Thursday speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738227","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=738227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}