Chris Christie Unloads on #BlackLivesMatter: ‘Don’t Call Me For a Meeting’
“Whenever you’re looking for another job, your current employer can get a little miffed at times”.
As a former prosecutor, he said he knew what it takes to keep the United States safe from further attacks, and reminding the audience that terrorism “wasn’t a theory” in his experience.
On the question of which Republican candidate a competitive garden state primary would favor, there has been considerable dissension in the ranks with respect to Christie.
Though many of his GOP opponents are heavily rallying for African American support (see: Ben Carson’s new rap ad or Donald Trump attempting Drake’s “Hotline Bling” moves), Chris Christie has made it very clear that appealing to black voters isn’t exactly at the top of his agenda.
“I’m actually involved in the College Democrats, but I’m here to thank you… for talking about drug addiction and treatment”, a Kirkwood Community College student told Christie at a town hall. “And I think Republican voters do have a choice and are going to exercise their choice a little more freely than Democrats, who are kind of getting Hillary shoved down their throat”.
The chili supper in Nevada Friday represented the end of a three-day run of events in Iowa for Christie. “It’s always hard. But we’re doing what we need to to be able to be competitive in the race”. When asked to rate the likely importance of the state for Republican hopefuls, he said that Iowa, New Hampshire and the south will have all but decided the nomination by the time delegates coalesce in New Jersey.
In the Fox News interview Friday, Christie said, “It never helps, I think, to have people that you’re asking to vote for you, to have you call them stupid”. “I just think it’s a problem all across this country, it affects every family and they just want to hear their leaders talk about it”.