Chris Christie returned to his day job as the governor of New Jersey full-time since suspending his presidential campaign just over two weeks ago but
said Monday that he also now has the job of making recommendations to Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
“Part of my job in helping Donald Trump as a candidate is for him to hear my points of view,” Christie said in an interview Monday night with New Jersey 101.5 radio, days after rocking the political world with a bombshell endorsement of Trump.
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And in the course of the explaining some of the criticisms he lodged at Trump while still a candidate, Christie pointed to previous examples of eventual running mates who campaigned hard against one another in a primary only to form a joint ticket in the general election.
“The fact of the matter is when you’re running against people, you try to make your best case possible,” he said. “By the way, George Bush 41 said that
Ronald Reagan’s economic plan was voodoo economics and then he became his vice president. We have seen this happen.
Joe Biden ran against Barack Obama and said all kinds of things against him and then he became Barack Obama’s running mate.”