Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is weighing another run for the White House.
The Republican told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday that he had not ruled out a presidential bid in 2024. Christie was one of more than a dozen contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
Christie said the Republican National Committee should handle the 2024 primary differently than it did then, when candidates were split between two debate stages based on polling.
“This slavery to polls at times is just ridiculous. And I think, even though I was in almost every one of the main stage debates that we held, all but one, and so I made the cut, but still, it just made, you know, it made it very, very difficult for people to be heard, and there was too much attention on polls,” Christie said.
He commended the Democratic Party on its handling of the 2020 presidential primary debates.
“The way the Democrats did it, quite frankly, this year was much better where there was random selection and [they broke] it up so that the debates can be of, you know, of a manageable size so that you get to hear more from people,” he said.
“Now, the Democrats had 23 people, so it still wasn’t a manageable size, but if you had somewhere between 10 and 12 people, and you had two debates of five or six, where people were randomly put together rather than by judging it with polls, which I think was an enormous mistake, you know, then I think you can hear from people and for a substantive amount of time, and it gives people a better opportunity to make judgments,” he added.
