Chris Christie has known him for decades, helped him prep for debates, and is willing to take the fight directly to him like no one Trump has ever faced.
As Donald Trump continues threatening to skip the Republican Party’s planned presidential primary debates, one of his rivals is making it clear why the former president may want to stay clear of him: Trump’s onetime debate coach and now unsparing critic, Chris Christie.
While other candidates dance around the question of Trump’s behavior on and leading up to his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt and his efforts to hide secret documents he had taken from the White House from authorities seeking their return, Christie has said, often and loudly, that those actions make the former president unfit for office.
“Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country,” said then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich during the first debate, in what would become a common refrain. “And for people who want to just tune him out, they’re making a mistake.” Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, said Trump nevertheless is not likely to get the same kid-glove treatment he enjoyed in the early debates of the 2016 cycle.
Trump used the same strategy in January 2016, when he skipped a debate in Iowa just before the caucuses there to hold his own rally. He wound up narrowly losing the state to Cruz.
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