After his strong performance in the undercard GOP debate, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Wednesday morning that the GOP shouldn’t be worried about its own internal differences, and should be more focused on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“On the main stage, what you saw again is a lot of interruptions, a lot of back and forth against each other. But the fact is, the differences between us on that stage, while real, and much less significant than the differences with Hillary Clinton,” Christie said on “Fox and Friends” the morning after the fourth GOP debate.
“And I think we gotta get a lot smarter about how we focus our conversation going forward,” he said
“You can count on this,” he added. “That’s how I’m going to focus my conversation going forward. And that’s why Hillary Clinton doesn’t want me on the debate stage next September, because she knows I’m not going to take my focus off of her for one minute.”
Christie only polls at 2.5 percent among potential GOP voters nationwide, and instead of attacking other Republicans, he focused his attacks on the Democratic front-runner Tuesday night. That strategy seemed to help him, as some early polls said he won the undercard debate easily.
This was Christie’s first appearance in the undercard debate, and before Tuesday, he had appeared in the prime-time debate. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal attacked Christie several times, but Christie said he ignored those attacks to keep his focus on Clinton.
“I’m not running against Bobby Jindal, I’m going to run against Hillary Clinton, so I wanted people to everybody know I’m going to take her on,” Christie said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “So I think that’s the most important question in this primary: who do you think is the best person to stand on that stage and prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton and her liberal, near socialist vision for Americas future? So that’s what I continue to do.”
