Last Updated on January 10, 2024
Chris Christie was caught on a livestream hot mic before ending his presidential campaign admitting that Nikki Haley will be “smoked” by 45th President Trump in the New Hampshire primary, where her campaign appears to be dumping all of its marbles, and went on to say that Ron DeSantis is “petrified” of what’s to come when he finally faces Trump in the upcoming Iowa Caucuses.
“She’s gonna get smoked and you and I both know it,” Christie can be heard saying into the hot mic, with his conversation leaking out over his campaign’s own livestream airways before he officially dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. “She’s not up to this,” he went on.
“She’s still 20 points behind Trump in New Hampshire, right?” an unidentified man can be heard asking Christie.
“Oh yeah!” Christie, the former New Jersey Governor who based nearly his entire 2024 presidential campaign on his hatred for Trump, who refused to hire him to work in the White House, responded.
“[Trump’s] still gonna carry Iowa, right?” the unidentified man then asked Christie.
“Oh yeah!” Christie responded. “I talked to – DeSantis called me,” he said. “Petrified.”
“He’s probably getting out after Iowa,” the man said back before the audio cut out.
Listen to the full hot mic audio recording below:
BREAKING: While waiting for Chris Christie announcement, he can be heard on a hot mic criticizing @NikkiHaley while talking to someone.
“She’s gonna get smoked,” he says. “You and I both know it, she’s not up to this.”
He also claims DeSantis called him, then feed is cut. pic.twitter.com/3Lrz2t6BQ8
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 10, 2024
In his subsequent speech, Christie made sure that his followers knew that, even though he’s failed yet again in his bid to be President of the United States, his anti-Trump fight is far from over.
“I want to promise you this, I am gonna make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be President of the United States again,” Christie said. “And that’s more important than my own personal ambitions.”
Watch a video clip from Christie’s drop-out speech below:
Chris Christie just said he’s going to make it his mission to make sure Trump doesn’t become president again
Screw this scumbag pic.twitter.com/PCxP4M2wvT
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 10, 2024
After news of the Christie hot mic broke, President Trump, who has a commanding lead in virtually every single GOP primary poll that’s been performed and leads Joe Biden in general election polling, took to Truth Social, writing that, with Christie out of the race, “I might even get to like him again!”
“Anyway,” Trump wrote, “he was just caught on a hot mic making a very truthful statement.”
