MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough mentioned on Wednesday that Donald Trump is “scared to death” of GOP presidential rival Chris Christie, and received’t go to the primary Republican main debate subsequent week due to him.
Scarborough made the argument about Christie – an ex-ally turned harsh Trump critic – after Matt Lewis, senior columnist at The Each day Beast, questioned whether or not the previous president totally appreciates “the danger” of his GOP rival in an look on MSNBC.
The “Morning Joe” host mentioned he thinks Trump is afraid of Christie earlier than reflecting on the previous New Jersey governor’s previous.
“He saw what Chris Christie did to Marco Rubio when Chris Christie went into a debate with one thing in mind, he knows Chris Christie put Jared Kushner’s father in jail for a very long time. He knows he’s a prosecutor who’s ruthless and knows how to push his case,” Scarborough mentioned.
“And he also knows that his secret sauce in 2016 was being the disrupter. Right? Shaking Hillary Clinton up on the debate stage, shaking the Marcos and everybody else up on the debate stage. That gig that’s like eight years old, right? That’s Elvis in ’77 now.”
Scarborough went on to say that Christie has Trump’s “number.”
“Obviously, his political gut instinct is second to none like he sees it coming. And so I think he’s scared to death of Chris Christie and will not have the guts to go or the nerve to go on stage with Chris Christie anywhere,” he mentioned.
Trump has but to verify his participation within the first GOP main debate subsequent week in Milwaukee, telling Newsmax’s Eric Bolling that he mentioned he “would not” signal the Republican Nationwide Committee’s loyalty pledge – a part of the standards to hitch the talk stage.
Christie, who has beforehand expressed concern towards the requirement, advised ABC’s “This Week” host Jonathan Karl that he had but to be introduced with a loyalty pledge. The previous governor, in response to a Trump assault of him, appeared to verify his attendance on the debate on Tuesday.
“Whatever… see you at the debate in Milwaukee or not, coward,” Christie wrote in a post on X (previously often called Twitter).
