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Chris Christie glanced at the two television monitors in my office and saw the biggest obstacle \u2013 and, in his mind, his greatest opportunity \u2013 to winning the Republican presidential nomination.<\/a> Both CNN and MSNBC were covering the Trump investigations.<\/p>\n

“Everything he does is about him,” the former New Jersey governor said. “He doesn\u2019t care about anyone else, who he hurts or what he says. He\u2019s never going to be anybody\u2019s retribution but his own.”<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, no matter how many times Trump is indicted, he\u2019ll never quit. “He\u2019s like a vampire. He will come back again and again until you drive a stake through his heart.”<\/p>\n

That, in a nutshell, is why Christie thinks he has a shot. The other contenders and would-be contenders are avoiding strong criticism of Donald Trump<\/a> or deflecting questions about him. Christie, a former prosecutor, has a punch-in-the-nose style and\u00a0has been swinging away at his onetime ally, including at a New Hampshire town hall this week.<\/p>\n

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While Christie said he\u2019ll decide on running by mid-May \u2013 the family is “almost all there,” he said \u2013 his body language tells me he\u2019s running.<\/p>\n

But Christie, who dropped out after New Hampshire in his 2016 run, has a towering mountain to climb.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s mired at 1% in most polls. He\u2019s been out of national politics for more than six years. And he was a strong supporter and informal adviser to the former president, right up to Election Night 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When you say the election has been stolen and you have no evidence to prove that, it\u2019s a disgrace,” he told me.<\/p>\n

“There are a group of people whose anger he has stoked,” referring to Trump\u2019s attacks on Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg<\/a> and warning of “death and destruction” if he brings an indictment. “The media have stoked anger as well because it brings eyeballs to the screen, whether it\u2019s pro-Trump media or anti-Trump media.”<\/p>\n

The Trump camp doesn\u2019t seem too worried, with a spokesman telling reporters who asked about the criticism: “Who\u2019s that?”<\/p>\n

Still, the former governor has a game plan, which he concedes may or may not work.<\/p>\n

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Right now, the press is covering 2024 as a two-person race between Trump and Ron DeSantis. Only one of them will survive, and Christie doesn\u2019t think it will be the Florida governor.<\/p>\n

At that point, Republican donors and strategists will look around and say, now what?<\/p>\n

Since Christie is the only contender willing to punch it out with Trump, he said, he\u2019ll be able to generate some traction. But if the Trump-Desantis battle rages on<\/a> until year\u2019s end, Christie said, his window of opportunity may never come \u2013 and he might have to consider dropping out.<\/p>\n

Of course, he doesn\u2019t rule out the possibility that DeSantis comes out on top, and rips him for calling Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine a territorial dispute. I point out that DeSantis later walked that back and called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.”<\/p>\n

To Christie, this is sheer indecision: “Is he a purveyor of a territorial dispute or a war criminal? Somebody needs to send a wake-up call to Tallahassee.”<\/p>\n

One potentially fatal flaw in Christie\u2019s plan is that he not only endorsed Trump in 2016 \u2013 which he now calls a mistake \u2013 but continued to strongly back him during his presidency and even chaired his opioid commission.<\/p>\n

So why would voters believe that Chris Christie is the man to drive Trump from the race when he was such an ardent supporter? I couldn\u2019t get Christie to criticize any aspect of the Trump presidency, with all its chaos and controversy. It wasn\u2019t until November of 2020, from Christie\u2019s vantage point, that Trump crossed an unacceptable line. <\/p>\n

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Christie, who famously embarrassed Marco Rubio in one 2016 faceoff, has reason to believe that Trump knows of his debating chops. He played Hillary Clinton in debate prep<\/a> and Joe Biden four years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not that his advice was always taken. In one 2020 session, Trump said he had handled the burgeoning pandemic perfectly. Christie said people didn\u2019t perceive it that way in the wake of 600,000 American deaths, offering a softer response. Trump thanked him \u2013 and in the next round said he had handled COVID perfectly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Christie knows how draining it is to run for president. As a blue-state governor, he may have been a better fit for the Republican Party of 2012, when he declined to run, than today\u2019s Trumpified party. But he takes solace from something his wife told him:<\/p>\n

If he accomplishes nothing more than knocking Trump out, he will have performed a great public service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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