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For Christie, Winning Would Be Great. Beating Trump Would Be a Close Second. [1]

['Shane Goldmacher', 'More About Shane Goldmacher']

Date: 2023-06-06

Chris Christie is embarking on a mission that even some of his fiercest allies must squint to see ending in the White House.

But Mr. Christie, the former governor of New Jersey who is now 60 and more than five years removed from holding elected office, has been undeterred, talking up an undertaking that he frames as almost as important as winning the presidency: extricating the Republican Party from the grip of Donald J. Trump.

“You need to think about who’s got the skill to do that and who’s got the guts to do it because it’s not going to end nicely no matter what,” Mr. Christie said in March at the same New Hampshire college where he announced his long-shot bid on Tuesday evening.

“His end,” he said of the former president, “will not be a calm and quiet conclusion.”

Mr. Christie, who filed the paperwork for his campaign earlier on Tuesday, has cast himself as the one candidate unafraid to give voice to the frustrations of Republicans who have watched Mr. Trump transform the party and have had enough — either of the ideological direction or the years of compounding electoral losses.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/politics/chris-christie-donald-trump-2024.html

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