Chris Christie’s announcement that he is running for the 2024 Republican nomination wrong-footed Senator Marco Rubio about his own 2016 campaign.
Rubio tweeted:
Any political reporter/commentator claiming that Christie “ended” my campaign in 2016 is lazy or stupid
NH debate was worthless because instead of hitting back when attacked like I wanted to, I listened to advice about “turning” not “knockdown” on a CC that was 7% and about to fall.. .
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 6, 2023
Rubio is still litigating over the 2016 primary that he lost. Blaming campaign consultants is always a weak excuse from a candidate, because who hired those Marco Rubio campaign consultants that Marco Rubio is complaining about almost eight years later? That would be Marco Rubio.
Senator Rubio did one thing right in his campaign. Once he knew he was going up in flames, he took to the road and attacked Trump. It was too little and too late, but it was more than all the other Republicans running against Trump then or now have mustered.
The media is whispering that Christie is entering the race to take down Trump. Put that away, ’cause I’ll believe it when I see it. The 2024 field isn’t quite as large as it was in 2016, but it shows the same fear of Trump that propelled him to the nomination in 2016.
If Chris Christie was trying to trigger anyone, it certainly wasn’t Marco Rubio. It has been reported for years that Rubio hates being in the Senate. Senator Rubio is desperate to run for president, and seeing Chris Christie run for the White House again seems to have raised some issues for the Florida senator.
Just when you think Republicans can’t get any crazier, Marco Rubio tweets 2016 campaign PTSD.
