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FOX NewsDec 26, 2022
Chris Christie to Announce 2024 Presidential Campaign
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The Facts
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will reportedly announce his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential candidacy next week during a town hall event at St. Anselm College on June 6.
Christie eventually endorsed former Pres. Donald Trump after dropping out of the primary in 2016. He then prepared Trump for the 2020 debates but has become a critic of the GOP frontrunner since Trump began denying the 2020 election results.
The Spin
Anti-Trump narrative
Christie is the Republican Party’s best hope to sell a message of hope rather than grievance to voters and derail the unpopular and criminally-charged Trump from claiming the nomination. Christie broke away from Trump over the latter’s lies about the 2020 election results, and anyone who denies the results of an election is a threat to democracy who should be kept out of the White House.
Pro-Trump narrative
Christie is becoming irrelevant to the Republican Party and US politics in general. Trump is the clear frontrunner with tepid resistance from those in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ camp. But no one is clamoring for Christie to join this race because this is Trump’s nomination, and no one is going to vote for a turncoat who doesn’t represent the party’s values.
