Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former 2024 Republican presidential candidate, got into an argument with co-hosts of The View on Thursday over President Joe Biden being able to sell his accomplishments to voters in November.
Christie, a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump, was asked why so many people, especially Republicans, have focused on Biden’s age going into the 2024 election, as Biden will turn 82 this year. Joy Behar, one of the co-hosts, argued that Biden has helped the economy and lowered the cost of insulin, and she asked why Biden being over 80 is a problem “when all of this is being accomplished.”
“All those things you just talked about, which are factually true, he can’t sell it,” Christie said. “He’s not selling it. He can’t sell it, and it’s not that Joe Biden could never sell it. I’ve known Joe Biden for 40 years. He was a really good, effective politician. He isn’t anymore.”
Christie explained that being a president is more than just leading a country and that it’s also about being able to convince your voters that what you are doing is benefiting them, the latter of which Biden has failed to do. The former presidential candidate cited former President Barack Obama as a president who could convince voters.
Fellow co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed voters are “quite fickle” and that members of the Biden administration should be on news outlets in the same way Republicans are “every four seconds.” She added that Democrats do not have time to do this because they have to “get stuff done.”
Beyond questioning Biden’s ability to sell his accomplishments, Christie also questioned if Trump would be able to flip the five battleground states — Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia — he lost in the 2020 presidential election. Christie argued that suburban women voters in these states voted against Trump in 2020, and he expressed doubt that Trump could win back this demographic this year.
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Christie questioning Biden’s ability to sell his accomplishments happened the same day the Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher stated she believes voters feel they do not have the “return to normalcy” Biden promised them. Inflation, along with national security concerns, were factors Doescher cited in her belief.
Trump has not yet won the Republican Party’s primary race, though he has remained at the top of many polls, along with winning Iowa’s caucuses and New Hampshire’s primary last month. Trump’s biggest opponent in the primary race is former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
