Chris Christie Won’t Support Trump Even if He Wins GOP Nomination: ‘I Can’t Do That’
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie revealed on Monday that he would not support former President Donald Trump even if Trump became the Republican nominee against President Joe Biden in 2024.
On Newsmax’s The Balance, host Eric Bolling asked Christie, “Wouldn’t it be better if you just united [behind Trump] and said, ‘Look, he’s got— he’s beating everyone by 50 points or more. Let’s get behind him and show the Democrats that we that we can unite as a party to beat them’? I mean, love him or hate him, he’s going to be better than Biden, right?”
Christie replied, “He doesn’t have a good word to say about any of us, whether it’s the people who have been for him or the people who have been against him. Why would we unite behind him? He doesn’t have a good word to say about anybody, and the only time he has a good word to say about anybody is if you kiss his behind. I mean, that’s it.”
“So what?” declared Bolling. “Even if you don’t like Trump, it’s got to be better than Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris, or Gavin Newsom, or Michelle Obama, no?”
Christie said:
Look, I don’t think any of those choices are good choices, that’s why I’m running, and I’m sure if you had Ron on the show right now, or you had Nikki, or you had Tim, they would say the very same thing to you. The only one who probably would say something different is Vivek since I don’t even really understand why he’s running for president, given that he thinks Donald Trump is the greatest president of 21st century. I think he’s just running for a cabinet position. But look, in the end, I think each one of us think we would be a better president than he was and a better nominee than he could possibly be.
Asked whether he would support Trump if he had to drop out of the race, Christie said bluntly, “No, I won’t, and I won’t support him against any of these other candidates. I think all these other candidates are better.”
“How about when he becomes the nominee? Then will you support him?” pressed Bolling, to which Christie replied, “The former president has conducted himself in a way which I think has been disrespectful to the Constitution, violative of the Constitution, and I just can’t be supportive of a guy who does those things and then just recently said that Mark Milley should be subject to execution.”
He concluded, “No. I can’t do that.”
During the first Republican primary debate in August, Christie and Asa Hutchinson were the only two candidates who said they would not support Trump as the Republican nominee in 2024 if he was convicted in a court of law.
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