{"id":5418,"date":"2023-09-11T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2023-09-11T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:45:09","slug":"chris-christie-reveals-what-he-will-do-if-trump-keeps-skipping-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5418","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie Reveals What He Will Do If Trump Keeps Skipping Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a member of the Republican Party, has cautioned that should ex-President Donald Trump continue to abstain from GOP primary debates, Christie will start pursuing him across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent discussion on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Media Buzz&#8221; with Howard Kurtz, Christie articulated this sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut did Trump defuse your strategy of going toe-to-toe with him by staying off the debate stage and saying since he\u2019s gotten a big lead nationally in the national polls, that he is not going to do any of the debates?\u201d Kurtz asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christie replied, \u201cWell, if he doesn\u2019t do any of the debates, Howie, you know, we\u2019re gonna give him another chance. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s not coming to the Reagan debate. We\u2019ll give him another chance in Alabama. But if he doesn\u2019t come there, then I\u2019m going to follow him around the country. Wherever he goes, I\u2019ll go. And we\u2019ll wind up talking to each other one way or the other. And he knows that\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to change your travel schedule to go where Trump goes?\u201d Kurtz questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou bet,\u201d Christie replied.<\/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\">Chris Christie on Donald Trump skipping debates: \u201cIf he doesn&#39;t come [to the Alabama debate], then I&#39;m going to follow him around the country. Wherever he goes, I&#39;ll go. And we&#39;ll wind up talking to each other one way or the other. And he knows that&#39;s true.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fPKJqyZqVf\">pic.twitter.com\/fPKJqyZqVf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1701139039137735135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 45th president, who is 77 years old, revealed last month that he would abstain from participating in the GOP primary debates. However, it remained ambiguous whether he was referring to only the initial two debates or all subsequent ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump referred to a CBS News survey at that time, which indicated his dominance over the other contenders in nationwide polls, and proclaimed: \u201cI WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier that day, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel expressed her optimism, stating she is \u201cstill holding out hope that [former] President Trump will come\u201d as she believes it\u2019s \u201cso important that the American people hear from all the candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypatriotreport.com\/chris-christie-reveals-what-he-will-do-if-trump-keeps-skipping-debates\/\">https:\/\/dailypatriotreport.com\/chris-christie-reveals-what-he-will-do-if-trump-keeps-skipping-debates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a member of the Republican Party, has cautioned that should ex-President Donald Trump continue to abstain from GOP primary debates, Christie will start pursuing him across the nation. In a recent discussion on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Media Buzz&#8221; with Howard Kurtz, Christie articulated this sentiment. \u201cBut did Trump defuse your strategy of going toe-to-toe with him by staying off the debate stage and saying since he\u2019s gotten a big lead nationally in the national polls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5420,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}