{"id":4331,"date":"2023-07-13T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2023-07-13T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:59:22","slug":"trump-punches-back-at-sloppy-chris-christie-mocks-his-dismal-poll-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4331","title":{"rendered":"Trump punches back at \u2018Sloppy\u2019 Chris Christie, mocks his dismal poll numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former President Donald J. Trump punched back at Chris Christie after the former New Jersey governor trashed him on Fox News over the weekend, ridiculing his horrendous poll numbers and recalling his last failed presidential campaign when he was \u201crun out\u201d of New Hampshire during the 2016 primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The media\u2019s love for the blustering 2024 GOP hopeful \u2013 who has been a constant presence on Sunday morning and cable news shows since he declared his candidacy last month \u2013 hasn\u2019t moved the needle with voters who aren\u2019t impressed with his one-issue platform of Trump-bashing and his notoriously short temper is already showing signs of fraying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the most part, Trump has refrained from engaging with him outside of poking fun at his former ally with the occasional fat joke but on Wednesday, he took to his Truth Social platform to counter Christie\u2019s accusation that he lied about the border wall and to jab him over his miserable polling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSloppy Chris Christie, who is polling at 1% and left his State, New Jersey, with an Approval Rating of 9% (the WORST number in State History), was interviewed on FoxNews (of course!) and stated that I only built 47 miles of Border Wall, knowing that the actual number is 463 Miles, as reported by the Department of Homeland Security,\u201d Trump said.\u00a0 \u201cThis does not include many Miles that we fixed or renovated, or areas that I got Mexico to secure. BEST BORDER EVER! He also lied about Russia &amp; many other subjects!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20594%20328'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-60.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4332\" width=\"594\" height=\"328\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-60.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4332\" width=\"594\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-60.png 500w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-60-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-60-293x162.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-60-390x215.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current frontrunner who is mauling the rest of the field was referring to Christie\u2019s interview with Shannon Bream on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d in which he accused him of being a liar, a Putin puppet and for good measure, claimed that the crowd size of his massive South Carolina rally was vastly overstated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Christie insists he\u2019s a viable candidate despite horrid polling, scoffs at Trump rally size <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uiolj0zmWi\">https:\/\/t.co\/Uiolj0zmWi<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BIZPACReview?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BIZPACReview<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DumpstrFireNews\/status\/1678368004445175808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christie reacted by taking to Twitter to challenge Trump to put his money where his mouth is by going mano-a-mano with him on a debate stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDonald Trump, the king of keyboard warriors. Donny, you got so much to say, why don\u2019t you say it directly to my face on the debate stage? Or are you a coward?\u201d Christie wrote, trying to bait Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Trump, the king of keyboard warriors.<br><br>Donny, you got so much to say, why don\u2019t you say it directly to my face on the debate stage?<br><br>Or are you a coward? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UVPcTh1Yi3\">pic.twitter.com\/UVPcTh1Yi3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chris Christie (@GovChristie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovChristie\/status\/1679130857955573762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the media has been salivating for the head-to-head matchup of the two bombastic Republicans, it\u2019s looking like a fat chance with Trump running away with the nomination and not likely to risk a nationally televised ambush from the ABC News gasbag and desperate former hires Mike Pence and Nikki Haley on a debate stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/trump-punches-back-at-sloppy-chris-christie-mocks-his-dismal-poll-numbers\/\">https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/trump-punches-back-at-sloppy-chris-christie-mocks-his-dismal-poll-numbers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald J. Trump punched back at Chris Christie after the former New Jersey governor trashed him on Fox News over the weekend, ridiculing his horrendous poll numbers and recalling his last failed presidential campaign when he was \u201crun out\u201d of New Hampshire during the 2016 primaries. The media\u2019s love for the blustering 2024 GOP hopeful \u2013 who has been a constant presence on Sunday morning and cable news shows since he declared his candidacy last month \u2013 hasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}