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Chris Christie Endorsed Trump Twice. Now He Wants to Eliminate Him.
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Chris Christie Endorsed Trump Twice. Now He Wants to Eliminate Him.
Chris Christie in the White House with then-president Donald Trump in 2017. (Shawn Thew-Pool via Getty Images)
The presidential candidate tells me why he’s ‘the only Republican willing to take on Donald Trump.’
By Bari Weiss
07.01.23 — U.S. Politics
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In 2016, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie was one of 17 Republicans in a crowded field trying to beat Donald Trump. We all know how that movie ended. One of the hard-won lessons of the 2016 primary, especially among Republicans, was that it was foolish not to unite right away behind the strongest candidate. If they had done that, perhaps Trump …

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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