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Chris Christie’s fanfic about the 2012 presidential election isn’t going over well

People online don't think his prediction of a possible 2012 match up is accurate.

 

Andrew Wyrich

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Posted on Jan 29, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 8:26 pm CDT

Former failed presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reminisced about his decision not to run against President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election and said that, if he had, he may have put up a fight.

Christie was a popular political figure in 2012, but his star quickly fell amid the so-called “Bridgegate” scandal, with his reputation hitting new lows when he ran for president during the 2016 election, which was followed by him being photographed on a state-run beach during New Jersey’s government shutdown.

But in the midst of remembering the good times, the former governor claimed during a segment of Morning Joe on Tuesday that if he had decided to run for president in 2012 the race against Obama would have been a “jump ball.”

“I had a quaint, which now seems antiquated, view that you had to be ready to be president,” he said, talking about his newly-released book. “I felt like I had been governor for 15 months and… I just felt like I have no business running for president of the United States after being governor of New Jersey for 15 months. I’m not ready. I understood the political moment and I understood that I probably had a pretty good chance to certainly win the nomination, and then who knows what would have happened against Barack Obama–you know, it’s probably a jump ball.”

He added:

“But I made the decision that I needed in my heart to believe that I was ready, mature enough, prepared enough, to take on the most important job in the world. So I have no regrets.”

People online didn’t think that was an accurate idea of what would have happened.

https://twitter.com/wmferrall/status/1090230349437853696

You can watch all of Christie’s comments about his possible 2012 run here.

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*First Published: Jan 29, 2019, 9:44 am CST