Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie expressed concern about President Trump's potential 'vendetta tour' during a second term in the White House, calling it a frightening prospect for the United States.
Christie, who supported Trump in the 2016 election but later competed against him in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, expressed his greatest fear that Trump would use the power of the presidency to target his perceived enemies with no one to stop him.
“There’ll be no one around to put guardrails up, and he will be on the vendetta tour against all enemies that he perceives,” Christie said in an interview with The Washington Post published on Wednesday. “And that’s a scary thing for the country.”
Despite these concerns about Trump, Christie stated that he does not plan to vote for President Biden in November.
“I don’t think so. No,” Christe said. “President Biden, in my view, is past the sell-by date. Seriously, look at him. If the American people are stupid enough to nominate these two guys, doesn’t mean I have to be stupid, too.”
He mentioned that Biden hasn't reached out to him for his support.
“He hasn’t,” Christie said, who ended his White House run in January after campaigning as the most outspoken anti-Trump candidate in the GOP primary.
“It’s pretty stupid for him not to,” he added.
The former New Jersey governor was toying with a possible third-party run with No Labels, a centrist ballot-access organization, but eventually turned down the possibility as he did not see a path forward.
“Nobody that we put up, including me, got higher than 17 percent. So what happens is [voters] love the idea of someone other than Trump or Biden, but then … once you [put forward an alternative], they don’t want to hear it,” Christie told The Post. “We looked at it pretty closely. There was no path to winning.”
