Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie began his Republican presidential marketing campaign final June by going scorched earth on former President Donald Trump.
Just earlier than Christie introduced Wednesday that he was suspending his marketing campaign, he went scorched earth on rival GOP candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis on a reside microphone.
Christie then introduced his marketing campaign exit at a city corridor occasion in Windham, New Hampshire.
Christie had beforehand described Haley as “smart” however had additionally criticized the previous South Carolina governor as being “unwilling to offend anyone by telling the truth.”
On Wednesday, the microphone captured Christie telling somebody named Wayne that Haley’s presidential bid would fail miserably.
“She’s gonna get smoked, and you and I both know it,” Christie mentioned. “She’s not up to this.”
And though Christie’s anti-Trump marketing campaign hardly received over anybody even vaguely Republican, he bragged that he did fairly nicely contemplating he acquired solely $12 million in donations, in comparison with the a whole lot of hundreds of thousands collected by Haley and DeSantis, the Florida governor.
“I mean, who’s punching above their weight and who’s getting a return on their investment?” he mentioned.
Christie additionally predicted Trump would simply win the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
The former governor additionally mentioned {that a} “petrified” DeSantis had known as him, however the mic minimize off earlier than he may serve up extra tea.
You can hear the remarks under.
As typically occurs in these conditions, many individuals on X (previously Twitter) had ideas about Christie’s feedback.
HuffPost reached out to the Christie, Haley and DeSantis campaigns for remark, however nobody instantly responded.
However, DeSantis posted a tweet that addressed one a part of Christie’s sizzling mic remarks (spoiler alert: not the half the place he was talked about).
But his put up didn’t get the response he in all probability wished.
