Source:CNN– former New Jersey Governor & 2023 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, talking to Poppy Harlow.

Source:The New Democrat

“GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie joins Poppy Harlow on “CNN This Morning” to discuss his candidacy in the upcoming election, and to take a look back at the 2020 presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.”

From CNN

I think there are a few interesting points here:

Poppy Harlow asked Chris Christie essentially whose worst: Donald Trump or Joe Biden as President. And Chris Christie ducked it like someone was firing a machine gun at his face (I guess the Governor has great political reflexes, even for a big man) and basically said: “That’s like asking me would I rather drown or be strangled” after she kept pushing him on that.

Just the way Governor Christie has been attacking former President Trump and President Biden, makes it pretty obvious that Christie thinks Trump is a bigger threat to the country and I’m sure the Republican Party, than the current President. He attacks Trump on issues of the former President’s character, (or lack of character) or honesty, (or lack of honesty) or the fact that he believes that Donald Trump believes that he’s not accountable to anyone. But he attacks President Biden based on policy and not calling the President a liar, bad man, etc.

Chris Christie has the reputation as being straight-forward, honest, holds no punches, you know, things that Americans say that they want in politicians, but then vote for and reelect people who lie about their height, shoe sizes, what they like to eat, as well as what they do in office and try to cover up whatever trouble that they may get in while in office and before in office. And during this interview, Governor Christie comes off more as the former politician whose trying to get back into power, then the guy whose running to shake things up in Washington.

Senator Mitt Romney (who I like a lot more than presidential candidate Mitt Romney) wrote an article arguing that Republican donors should essentially make a decision and just give money to the most electable Republican presidential candidates (who are not named Donald J. Trump) and try to narrow the Republican presidential field that way and get it down to 3-5 Republican candidates against Trump by Iowa, instead of 10-15, so the 2023-24 Republican presidential primary season, doesn’t look like Donald Trump’s latest political reality TV show: Who Wants to Replace Donald Trump.

I think Senator Romney is right here. The problem is how do you do that. How do you convince 5-7 Republican presidential candidates who are at 3-5% in the Republican polls, that they’re simply not ready for national prime time and they should just get out and leave it up to Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, and maybe Mike Pence, to try to take down Donald Trump, or at least severely weaken him in Iowa and New Hampshire. Once a career politician has the presidential political bug, it might take an army of exterminators to get rid of that bug.