Pinning much of the blame on former President Donald Trump, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie now claimed that he is tired of his Republican Party losing to Democrats.
While speaking on a panel on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Christie lamented Walker’s underperformance when compared with all other Republicans in statewide races in the Peach State as the roundtable conversation focused on Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who last week defeated Trump supporter Herschel Walker in the runoff election; Christie who was once an ally to Trump after withdrawing from the 2016 GOP primary race. Since then, Christie has grown more critical of the former president. And while assessing Republican struggles in recent years in the TV appearance, Christie even put a new spin on one of Trump’s old campaign promises.
“We all remember, in 2016, he said, if he got elected, there was going to be so much winning and winning and winning and winning, they’d get sick of winning. None of us knew at the time he was actually talking about the Democrats were going to do all that winning, not the Republicans. And that’s what he’s wrought,” Christie said.
As Trump, who had supported former Sen. David Perdue in the Republican primary, and did not support Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, in contrast to Walker. Kemp ran a campaign for Walker in an effort to garner more votes, but it was insufficient to advance the former NFL star. Now, Christie pointed out that Kemp defeated Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams in the general election of November with 200,000 more votes than Walker.
Christie referred to Walker as a “creation” of Trump, saying,
“Bad candidates lose. Good candidates have a chance to win. And Herschel Walker was not a good candidate. And, you know, he wasn’t a good candidate because of a whole variety of issues that we saw that came out during the campaign.”
Trump put his political clout to the test by endorsing more than 250 candidates in the 2022 midterm elections, and according to The New York Times, he had an 82% success rate. But still, most of those candidates were incumbents and heavily favored to win, as the report stresses.
Christie who recently chastised Trump for suggesting that parts of the U.S. Constitution should be terminated to overturn his 2020 election defeat, was rumored to be considering running for president in 2024. One of the few republicans that would face Trump— but the only Republican to have declared—again.
He stated last weekend on ABC’s “This Week” that it “should not be hard to say that the 2020 election is over.”
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Sources: Dailywire, Breitbart, ABCnews, NYtimes
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