Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie on Sunday lamented what he called the teenage “food fight” between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis over LGBTQ rights in the 2024 GOP race, as rivals of the two front-runners seek to break out of the crowded race.
“It is a teenage, you know, food fight between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, and I don’t think that’s what leaders should be doing,” Christie told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
“It certainly doesn’t make me feel inspired as an American, on the Fourth of July weekend, to have this type of back-and-forth going on at all, and it’s wrong to be doing it, and it’s narrowing our country, and making us smaller,” the former New Jersey governor said.
A campaign Twitter account for DeSantis’ 2024 presidential bid marked the end of Pride Month on Friday by sharing a video slamming Trump’s previous promise to protect LGBTQ rights.
The video paints the former president as sympathetic toward transgender rights and features a clip from his acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican convention – just over a month after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando – in which he says, “I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung slammed the video, telling CNN that it showed “a desperate campaign in its last throes of relevancy.”
“I’m not comfortable with it,” Christie said Sunday of the video. “And I’m not comfortable with the way both Gov. DeSantis and Donald Trump are moving our debate in this country.”
“We have 21% of our students in the 10th grade saying that they’re using hard illegal drugs. And this is the kind of stuff that we’re talking about?” the former governor added.
Fellow Republican presidential hopeful Will Hurd echoed Christie’s message…
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