Christie: Presidential race against Obama in 2012 would have been a ‘jump ball’

Published January 29, 2019 3:57pm ET

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday if he had been the 2012 Republican nominee against then-President Barack Obama, the White House race would have been a “jump ball.”

“I understood the political moment, and I understood that I probably had a pretty good chance to certainly win the nomination,” Christie said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And then who knows what would have happened against Barack Obama? You know, probably it was a jump ball.”