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Chris Christie

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Chris Christie is a prominent Republican politician from New Jersey, best known for serving as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. During his tenure, he focused on fiscal reform, education, and infrastructure improvements, gaining national attention for his outspoken style and bipartisan efforts, particularly in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Christie has also served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, where he gained recognition for his work in combating public corruption and organized crime.

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Feb 5, 2024

I think it's a very tight, concise decision. I don't think there's any grounds for appeal.

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Feb 5, 2024

The problem is they don't want to do the hard work that's necessary to lead and change the party.

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Feb 5, 2024

What Reagan would do is if there was parts of it he didn't like, he'd get in there and negotiate it and try to make it better.

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Feb 5, 2024

Not my experience of being governor for eight years in a state where I presided over divided government with the Democratic Legislature.

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Jan 13, 2024

I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again.

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Jan 9, 2024

It's clear to me tonight that there isn't a path for me to win the nomination, which is why I'm suspending my campaign tonight for the United States.

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Jan 9, 2024

Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States or fit to be the nominee of the Republican Party. He will sell the soul of this country. He is angry, he is bitter. He is such a spoiled baby, completely self-centered…

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Jan 9, 2024

anyone who is unwilling to say the former president is unfit for office is unfit themselves to be president.

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Jan 9, 2024

if you can't say the former president is unfit, you're unfit yourself.

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Jan 9, 2024

If it's Trump versus Biden, Biden is going to sweep the floor with him.

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Jan 9, 2024

I want to promise you this, I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump ever be president of the United States again, and that's more important than my own personal ambition.

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Jan 9, 2024

Imagine just for a moment if 9/11 had happened with Donald Trump behind the desk. The first thing he would've done was run to the bunker to protect himself. He would've put himself first, before this country. And anyone who is unwilling to…

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Jan 9, 2024

She's going to get smoked, and you and I both know it, she's not up to this.

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Jan 9, 2024

If Donald Trump becomes the nominee of this party, the moment that it happened was when Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott and Mike Pence, and Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy stood on that stage in Milwaukee in August, and when we…

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Jan 9, 2024

It makes this debate really crucial. It's an amazing timing by him, because it is a race for second in Iowa.

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Jan 2, 2024

don't look at these polls that has Trump way out ahead, that there is still time for political surprises.

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Jan 1, 2024

I think that there's an interesting legal argument to be made here. I think the problem is, as a practical matter, excluding people from the ballot in this way is going to cause, you know, more tumult in an already really divided country…

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Jan 1, 2024

I don't understand how Chuck Schumer can't to go Mitch McConnell right now and say, look, we need to have a vote to kick him out.

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Jan 1, 2024

I mean, it was amazing to me. When the FBI would say, I mean, let's start with $5,000, I'd say who would throw their whole life away for five grand?

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Jan 1, 2024

I mean, think about the practicality of it is that a president could literally do anything. And if he wasn't impeached and removed for it, he escapes all type of criminal or civil/legal liability. It doesn't make any sense.

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Jan 1, 2024

I think four more years of either Donald Trump or Joe Biden as president would be disastrous for this country. We have to win now.

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Jan 1, 2024

Acceptance of responsibility is what a pardon requires. He'll never accept responsibility, never has, he never will.

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