{"id":571227,"date":"2023-04-21T23:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chris-christie-seeks-to-topple-desantis-as-chief-trump-rival\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T23:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:03:59","slug":"chris-christie-seeks-to-topple-desantis-as-chief-trump-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chris-christie-seeks-to-topple-desantis-as-chief-trump-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chris Christie seeks to topple DeSantis as chief Trump rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/christiechris_042023_AP_CharlesKrupa.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is suddenly facing a rash of attacks within the nascent GOP presidential field, with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) seeking to quash his candidacy before it even starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christie, who is openly mulling a 2024 bid of his own after ending far back in the pack during the last competitive GOP cycle, is seizing on signs that DeSantis may be losing steam ahead of his widely expected campaign launch this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Christie has pounced on DeSantis over the Florida governor\u2019s ongoing battle with Disney and some of his remarks toward Trump \u2014 jabs that come amid an already difficult week for DeSantis, who has seen many of his state\u2019s GOP lawmakers steadily endorse Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, the effort hearkens to the 2016 cycle when Christie delivered a stinging blow to then-primary rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) during a GOP presidential debate shortly before the New Hampshire primary as he blasted Rubio over his \u201cmemorized 25-second speech.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This time around, Christie and DeSantis\u00a0have yet to formally declare\u00a0a 2024 bid. But that moment is still very much top-of-mind for Christie as he surveys the current GOP field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou better have somebody on that stage who can do to [Trump] what I did to Marco [Rubio] because that\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s gonna defeat Donald Trump,\u201d\u00a0Christie said during a town hall in New Hampshire last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Republicans concede it hasn\u2019t been a good week for DeSantis, they caution there\u2019s still plenty of time for the GOP presidential field to evolve ahead of the first primaries and as neither man has announced a White House bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Christie is clearly curious about another run for the White House. I think he wants to demonstrate his seriousness by showing that he\u2019s not afraid to take shots at his would-be opponents,\u201d said Alex Conant, who worked on Rubio\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Christie kept his name in the headlines this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing at a Semafor event, on the Republican strategist-run \u201cRuthless\u201d podcast, and in the early presidential primary state of New Hampshire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 presidential candidate took aim at DeSantis over how he\u2019s been handling his feud with Disney after the corporate company criticized the Florida governor on legislation he signed last year that curbed classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in certain grade levels.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Board of Education\u00a0approved this week\u00a0DeSantis\u2019s proposal to expand the law to classrooms up to 12th\u00a0grade. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>DeSantis sought to punish Disney by installing board members that would take the helm of the tax district that oversees the corporate company. But the entertainment giant took steps before the state\u2019s takeover to reduce the district\u2019s authority over Disney, dealing a blow to the governor\u2019s aim of controlling Disney.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he was so offended by the Reedy Creek District, why didn\u2019t he do something the whole first four years he was there? It\u2019s not like \u2014 don\u2019t tell me that\u00a0the governor of Florida didn\u2019t know that Disney had its own governing body. \u2018Cause if he didn\u2019t, then he\u2019s an incompetent,\u201d Christie\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ruthlesspodcast.com\/episodes\/christie-straps-the-vest\">said on a Wednesday episode of \u201cRuthless.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2023\/04\/20\/as-desantis-falters-christie-sees-an-opening-00093003\">separate interview with Politico Playbook<\/a> published on Thursday, he suggested DeSantis\u2019s quip toward Trump regarding allegations Trump\u00a0had an affair\u00a0with a porn star were \u201cway too subtle.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is a guy who said Ted Cruz\u2019s wife was ugly. Like, you think he cares that you made a little sideswipe at him?\u201d Christie told the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Christie hasn\u2019t stopped taking aim at the former president\u00a0either, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/04\/21\/chris-christie-2024-presidential-election-donald-trump\/11704873002\/\">including\u00a0during\u00a0a stop in New Hampshire<\/a>\u00a0when he compared\u00a0Trump to\u00a0Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the former New Jersey governor\u2019s jabs have come as DeSantis has seen his polling numbers drop, Republicans pile on criticism over his handling of the Disney feud, and members of the Florida House GOP delegation steadily endorse Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe comments that Gov. Christie was giving credence to is \u2018it might not make sense to have all of our eggs in just this one basket and that basket being Ron DeSantis, who\u2019s never run on the national stage before,\u2019\u201d said GOP strategist Colin Reed, who served as a spokesman for Christie when he was governor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, Reed acknowledged although it hadn\u2019t been a great week for DeSantis, \u201crumors of his political demise are grossly exaggerated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other Republican strategists said they weren\u2019t buying Christie\u2019s strategy to hit DeSantis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis feels like a bit of a 2016 redux where candidates \u2026 did not go after the poll-sitter in an effort to move him to second place. Seems to me as though \u2026 if Trump is the prohibitive favorite at this point, you have to go after Trump, not the guy in second place,\u201d said Brian Seitchik, a Trump campaign alum and Arizona-based GOP strategist.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019s political team largely brushed off Christie\u2019s attacks, questioning his objectivity as an ABC News commentator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRon DeSantis has been leading the fight to protect people from the left\u2019s disastrous policies, not just talking about it from ABC\u2019s Disney-funded TV studios,\u201d said Dave Abrams, spokesperson for DeSantis\u2019s political team, in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Regardless of whether Republicans agree with Christie\u2019s moves to take swipes at DeSantis, Christie\u2019s jabs coincided with a tough week for DeSantis who was in D.C. and mingled with some of his former colleagues, only to see more of them announce their support for Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a bunch of Florida members of Congress endorsing Trump, which is not supposed to happen if you\u2019re a popular governor of your home state. You\u2019re not supposed to be endorsing someone else,\u201d said Michael DuHaime, who served as Christie\u2019s lead strategist during his gubernatorial campaigns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u00a0also took a hit this week for his appearances\u00a0outside of Florida while parts of the state saw\u00a0serious flooding, gas shortages\u00a0and rising gas prices, said GOP strategist Doug Heye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis handled the hurricane so well. And there were a lot of questions \u2026 whether he even talks to Biden, much less be seen with him \u2014 he handled it perfectly,\u201d Heye said. \u201cAnd yet, when a big part of the country\u2019s attention is being paid to that state on something specific, he was absent from the conversation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet,\u00a0some\u00a0Republicans caution against writing the eulogy for DeSantis\u2019s presidential bid before it\u2019s even been announced, saying there\u2019s still plenty of time before the debates and primaries ahead. Likening it to the iconic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, Heye suggested one possibility is that DeSantis is playing the long <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeman\u2019s punches became less and less effective \u2014 \u2018DeSanctimonious,\u2019 same thing,\u201d Heye said, referring to Trump\u2019s nickname for DeSantis. \u201cAnd when Ali saw his moment, he struck. And if that\u2019s DeSantis\u2019s strategy \u2014 we don\u2019t know that \u2014 but if it is, that may work or may not work, but it\u2019s a strategy and tells us that they\u2019re being methodical about this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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