Donald Trump known as one-time ally Chris Christie “sloppy” after the previous New Jersey governor predicted the ex-president wouldn’t win in 2024 and needled him for dropping his re-election bid in 2020 — saying “that loss to Joe nonetheless stings.”
The confrontation erupted Sunday after Christie posted on Twitter that Trump, 76, was the one candidate to “lose to Biden outdoors of Delaware.”
The forty fifth president shot again that Christie’s 2016 marketing campaign “went down in flames.”
Trump who introduced his third straight White House run Nov. 15, took to his Truth Social platform to lambaste Christie after his look on ABC News’ “This Week.”
“‘Sloppy’ Chris Christie, the failed former Governor of New Jersey, spent nearly his whole final 12 months in workplace campaigning in New Hampshire for the Republican Nomination for President. Much like his time period in workplace, the place he left with an Approval Rating of simply 9%, his Presidential marketing campaign was an entire catastrophe,” Trump stated.
“He endorsed me the next day, later really useful Chris Wray for the FBI (how did that work out?), went down in flames, after which was SALVAGED by ABC FAKE NEWS. I by no means needed him!” he added.
That led to Christie’s response on Twitter.
“I’m the goal of Donald Trump’s new tantrum. None of his lies about me at the moment bothered him when he requested me to prep him for each common election debate or provided me 3 totally different cupboard posts,” the previous governor stated.
“He’s the one man to lose to Biden outdoors Delaware. That loss to Joe nonetheless stings,” Christie reiterated.
Christie, who endorsed Trump after dropping out of the 2016 Republican presidential major, apparently ruffled the forty fifth president’s feathers when he responded to a query from moderator Jonathan Karl about whether or not the previous president can beat Biden in 2024.
“I don’t assume so,” Christie said bluntly.
Christie, a contributor to ABC News, additionally doubted the 80-year-old Biden’s odds for victory in 2024, noting that the president didn’t win the election in 2020, however that Trump “misplaced.”
“Politicians, after they run for workplace, you don’t at all times win. Sometimes the opposite man loses. Joe Biden’s president as a result of Donald Trump misplaced. Joe Biden didn’t win. And Joe Biden’s by no means taken possession of that reality. And so he continues to do what he did when he was operating, which he thinks was nice ‘as a result of I gained.’ No, you didn’t win. Trump misplaced,” Christie stated.
He went on to level out Biden’s age, his poor ballot numbers, and doubted whether or not the octogenarian might stand up to the pains of a re-election marketing campaign.
“He just isn’t able to operating a conventional American race,” Christie stated. “And what he had in ’20 was a present. He had Donald Trump, who was poisonous.”
