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Tue Mar 7, 2023, 12:33 AM Mar 2023

OUCH! Chris Christie Hits Trump Right In His Sorest Of All Sore Spots

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took a shot at ex-pal Donald Trump by hitting at one of his best-known sore spots: crowd size.

“You saw the scenes at CPAC,” Christie said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, referring to the right-wing convention outside Washington where the former president spoke on Saturday. “That room was half-full.”

Trump is known to obsess over crowd size, with one of the very first lies of his administration being a false claim about his inauguration crowd. He’s often made inflated claims about crowds at his rallies, and insisted that they’re sold out even when empty seats are clearly visible.

As Christie noted, Trump’s CPAC speech was moderately attended, with ABC News reporting that the back of the room was “almost completely empty.”

Christie said Trump’s empty-seat issue extends well beyond CPAC, and speculated that the former president isn’t holding many campaign rallies because he knows the crowds aren’t what they used to be.

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OUCH! Chris Christie Hits Trump Right In His Sorest Of All Sore Spots (Original Post) question everything Mar 2023 OP
Tens of thousands MAGAts died of COVID. Justice matters. Mar 2023 #1
The room was half full. About 1/100th of that number of attendees at Trump's speech, 3Hotdogs Mar 2023 #2
Trumps act got stale BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 #3
TFG is delusional LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #4
Bwah.. dt was somewhere Cha Mar 2023 #5
We need more of this toward desatan. C Moon Mar 2023 #6
This (his inability to attract crowds) is a big part of why I really don't think he can win in 2024. ShazzieB Mar 2023 #7
I want Trump to stay strong enough long enough Sky Jewels Mar 2023 #8
Ooh, yes! ShazzieB Mar 2023 #9
Pariah status awaits the Slobfather malaise Mar 2023 #10
I Happen To Like Christie RobinA Mar 2023 #11

Justice matters.

(6,925 posts)
1. Tens of thousands MAGAts died of COVID.
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 12:50 AM
Mar 2023

202/100K more than Canadians/100K died due to hair furhair's lies and neglect. And he runs for office again!!!

3Hotdogs

(12,372 posts)
2. The room was half full. About 1/100th of that number of attendees at Trump's speech,
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 01:08 AM
Mar 2023

would attend a Christie rally.

ShazzieB

(16,368 posts)
7. This (his inability to attract crowds) is a big part of why I really don't think he can win in 2024.
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 03:15 AM
Mar 2023

This is concrete, verifiable evidence that his base is shrinking. As vocal as some of his cultists may be, there aren't nearly as many as there used to be, from what I can see.

I'm honestly more worried about DeSatan in 2024 than I am about Trump.

RobinA

(9,888 posts)
11. I Happen To Like Christie
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 09:20 AM
Mar 2023

Not as a politician or leader, but as a character in the ongoing narrative. He's smart, sometimes savvy, and is not unwilling to throw a well placed bomb from time to time. You never QUITE know what he will say or do. He has some personality issues that make him mostly a jerk, but every now and then he pops his head up and lands a zinger. As a cannon he's just a little bit loose.

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