Chris Christie said he knows he could win the White House if he ran for president next year.
The New Jersey governor and GOP rock star made the comments in an interview with the National Review last week while he was in Washington D.C., which was published Tuesday night.
“I have people calling me and saying to me, ‘Let me explain to you how you could win.’ And I’m like, ‘You’re barking up the wrong tree. I already know I could win.’ That’s not the issue.”
It’s the furthest out there Christie has gone about his thinking about the 2012 race, which many conservative pundits have been pleading with him to join, citing the weakness of the field. In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, he acknowledged he sees the opportunity, but didn’t say that he also clearly sees a road to the White House over a field of more than a dozen potential GOP rivals.
He added, “The issue is not me sitting here and saying, ‘Geez, it might be too hard. I don’t think I can win.’ I see the opportunity both at the primary level and at the general election level. I see the opportunity. But I’ve got to believe I’m ready to be president, and I don’t. And I think that that’s the basis you have to make that decision.”
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Please DON’T run!!!!!!
He may be right
My dead great great grandmother would beat Obama in the next election but she can’t run because this is a national election and not just in the city of Chicago!
No. 3: I don’t know about you, but my great great grandparents were not born in the US.
Mark Levin; if the GOP will not come up with a fresh face very soon then Obama will just walk in for a second term.
to mark levin I bet there are many more of us who would be very happy if he did run. He is definitely more the kind of change we need than Obama was, can u imagine a person who is actually thinking that he might not be ready to be pres as opposed to right away being rodef the kavod. he sounds like the best choice I’ve heard of in a very long time!
#6: mark levin doesn’t want Obama, he wants a Tea Party extremist. We need neither. Besides, Obama is not as weak as Mr. Levin thinks and hopes. He will crush a right wing reactionary.