Christie was also criticized because he didn’t return to New Jersey from campaigning in New Hampshire until Friday night. “So, you know, six, eight, 10, 12 inches of snow on a weekend will not be something that I think will be more than we can handle”.
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“He drove all the way to New Jersey, then came back here”, said Auffant, 55, a high school football coach and teacher in Hampton who is also interested in Trump.
“That approval rating has gone down once I started to run for president, and it should be no shock”, Mr. Christie said. “We have all our people ready to go, they know what to do”.
At a town hall in the Granite State Friday, Christie said he had initially planned to stick around.
Christie left the presidential campaign trail to return to New Jersey and manage its response to the storm over the weekend.
CHRISTIE: Well, he’s governed a lot less time than I have, Jake. “This is my home and this is my job”.
New Jersey Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Chairwoman Annette Quijano, a Democrat, issued a statement Friday calling out the candidate for putting politics before public safety.
He has said he was closely monitoring the storm from New Hampshire, held Cabinet meetings by phone and that the state was making all necessary preparations. The beach resort town of Seaside Heights in New Jersey now has a population of about 1,000, a far cry from the 3,000 year-round residents it had before Sandy, according to borough administrator Christopher Vaz. On Thursday, he was holding storm briefings by telephone from there.
New Jersey is expected to experience a severe winter storm with heavy snow, mixed precipitation, 25-45 mile-per-hour winds with gusts up to 60 miles per hour, and freezing temperatures throughout the state.
Chris Christie chose to return home Friday from the Republican presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire as a major snowstorm threatened to drop up to 2 feet of snow on his state and cause coastal flooding. “Not everyone is raised”, said Paul Daley, the emergency management coordinator for the New Jersey shore community Toms River. “But I will be back, because I am able to do both things”. “I really think that our veterans are not being taken care of, whether they’re suffering from mental illness or drug and alcohol addiction”. In his brief time in City Hall, de Blasio has become infamous for jetting out of town.
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“I want to make sure the people of my state feel safe and secure”, he added in a second tweet.
