RINDGE, N.H. — Surely, says Chris Christie, Republicans can’t be “stupid” sufficient to fall for Donald Trump’s “build a wall” routine once more or anybody else using it, proper?
That’s appears to be what Christie was questioning recent off an Alabama stage, when he started a two-day tour of New Hampshire faculties early on Thursday in an try to hold ahead no matter momentum he’s gained from a nicely acquired efficiency throughout the newest Republican presidential major debate.
Christie began his go to in south western New Hampshire, at Franklin Pierce University, the place he joined dozens of scholars and college for a query and reply session aimed, he stated, at reaching out to a section of the inhabitants which historically participates within the democratic course of far lower than their older friends.
“I hear people in my business complain all the time about you,” Christie stated. “They say young people don’t vote, young people don’t get involved, young people don’t care about the country enough at this stage in their lives to get involved enough even to register and to vote.”
But to be able to persuade the younger crop of potential first-in-the-nation major voters to take part, the previous federal prosecutor stated, folks in his line of labor have to earn their consideration “and try to inspire you to care.”
“This is your future we’re talking about,” he stated. “The decisions being made today are going to affect your life.”
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Christie didn’t hassle with a lot of a stump speech, and as an alternative spent most of an hour taking questions from a pair of scholar journalists and fielding a number of from voters. While the ex-Garden State governor has been booed by bigger Republican audiences receiving the blunt finish of his consideration, the solutions he gave the small however engaged crowd on Thursday have been met with agreeable laughter and nods.
He spoke about his notably bombastic debate efficiency the night time earlier than in Tuscaloosa, holding himself out as a stark distinction to each his fellow debaters and former President Donald Trump, who has ducked every of 4 social gathering debates.
“We’re down to seven weeks from the New Hampshire primary. It’s game time now. If you’re going to vote for someone, they better be ready to answer your questions,” he stated.
When it comes to purchasing the grandiose guarantees made by the politicians in search of the social gathering major — the sort which have been so prevalent in 2016 and once more characteristic closely this election cycle — Christie stated, it’s finest “to be cautious.”
“And if you’re not cautious about this after the election of Donald Trump eight years ago, you should be. TV-tough guy talk may sound good to some people; it never happens,” he stated.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ promise to shoot drug sellers coming into the U.S. from Mexico, Christie stated, in addition to his and Trump’s calls to construct a wall alongside the total size of the neighboring international locations’ border and make Mexico foot the invoice, are merely by no means going to return to be. Trump didn’t construct the wall final time, he stated, he gained’t construct it this time, and neither will anybody else.
“We can’t be that stupid again, can we? To actually believe that promise — we shouldn’t have believed it eight years ago and supported someone who would lie to us like that,” Christie stated.
Christie’s scheduled stops Thursday included an occasion at Keene State College and New England College. He’ll be in Durham at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, for a city corridor fashion occasion on the University of New Hampshire, adopted by a night cease in Hooksett.
Christie is polling third in New Hampshire and fifth nationally. Trump leads all the different candidates mixed by double digit margins.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”