New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says that President Obama is focusing on the minimum wage because he’s a “class warrior.”
Speaking from a New Jersey diner Thursday, the Republican explained that his widely reported Tuesday comment — how he was “tired of hearing about the minimum wage” — was taken out of context and misunderstood, according to the New York Daily News.
Christie then criticized the president for focusing too much on the minimum wage and not “creating better paying jobs.”
“The president wants to focus (on minimum wage) because he’s a class warrior,” Christie said. “What he wants to focus on is the minimum wage. I don’t believe that that’s what our focus should be.”
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez said Christie “got his head in the sand if he’s getting tired about the minimum wage.”
New Jersey has about 50,000 workers making the minimum wage, according to the Daily News.
Christie was speaking at the Mastoris Diner in Bordentown Township, where he was campaigning for Tom MacArthur, the Republican candidate for New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District.
He is currently fourth in the RealClearPolitics polling average for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
