New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says Hillary Clinton would destroy Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in a presidential debate and “cut his heart out.”
The governor’s harsh comments come following attack ads from a super PAC supporting Rubio’s presidential bid.
“This isn’t my first rodeo, and if Marco Rubio thinks by putting out a couple of negative ads on me that somehow he’s going to intimidate me, it just shows how inexperienced he is and how unprepared he is to be our candidate against someone like Hillary Clinton,” Christie told radio personality Laura Ingraham.
“You want someone on that stage against Hillary Clinton who has been through the wars, not somebody who’s a first-term United States senator who has never had a tough race in his life. This guy has been spoon fed every victory he’s ever had in his life. That’s the kind of person we want to put on the stage against Hillary Clinton? I don’t think so. She’ll pat him on the head and then cut his heart out.”
Christie and Rubio are competing for a similar constituency in New Hampshire, where a new poll released earlier this week found the two GOP rivals are separated by 4 percentage points, within the margin of error.
Christie ranks fourth in the Washington Examiner‘s newest GOP presidential power rankings. Rubio ranks third.
