“Governor Christie has proven the ability to work across party lines and to get things done, he has proven that in New Jersey and I think he can do a great job as doing that as a president as well”, he said in Rochester.
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“I think Republican voters in particular are going to want to hear exactly what they’re buying, and so my criticism of my opponents is that they haven’t said much of anything”, Christie said.
“Let me be really clear: I’m not a president who’d be looking to go to war at all, ” Christie said at a town hall Thursday on the third day of a campaign swing through New Hampshire.
He has repeated the story at town hall meetings in New Hampshire. Figure it thus: in 1992, Americans looked at a sitting president who was a decorated naval aviator, married to a woman you’d be hard-pressed not to like.
“In April 1993 Christie announced that he would challenge incumbent state senator John Dorsey, an 18-year lawmaker, in the Republican primary”. Marco Rubio, and ex- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
But it’s an accomplished lineup of governors, senators and business people.
Christie said his distinctive style has led to a preconceived image of who he is.
While conservatives might have forgiven him for some of his positions (as they did for Mitt Romney), they wouldn’t forget his embrace of Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy, just before the 2012 election.
Gov. Chris Christie in recent days has rejected a host of budget-related bills sent to him by Democrats who control the state Legislature, including measures that would have hiked the state’s corporate-tax rate and boosted funding for family planning clinics. Christie denies he had anything to do with it, and no evidence has emerged to refute that. There will be plenty more of those now that he’s an affirmed candidate. “So far from “telling it like it is” in his campaign announcement speech, Christie is ‘telling it like it isn’t.’ In his egocentric, narcissistic world, he is Our Savior, and will not own up to the damage he has done”.
“America is exhausted of hand-wringing and indecisiveness and weakness in the Oval Office”, he said.
In 2012, Christie was seen as the charismatic, pragmatic governor who burst onto the scene in made-for-YouTube moments. In Trenton, Christie set out to trim public pension benefits to get the state’s books in order.
Christie’s fortunes have certainly changed.
But according to Club for Growth, there are substantial other justifiable reasons for Christie’s moderate reputation. With trouble at home and a less-attractive record to GOP voters than he’d hoped for, Christie enters the race outside the top tier of candidates.
Under his watch, New Jersey has undergone nine credit rating downgrades.
When Christie recently announced his formal bid for the Republican presidential nomination in late June he had dismal poll ratings across New Jersey where 55 percent disapprove of his performance in office.
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The website also points out that in 2009, Christie told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he is for some gun-control measures.
