New York (EFE)
Christie today completed the necessary documentation for his candidacy, which will be added to that of Trump and the other candidates: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; Former Vice President Mike Pence. Former US Ambassador to the UN and former Governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley. Senator Tim Scott and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.
He is expected to publicly announce the candidacy tonight at an event in the state of New Hampshire.
“Bridgegate”
The former governor of New Jersey (2010-2018), who already participated in the conservative primaries in 2016, then suffered the impact of the so-called “Bridgegate” case.
That case concerns the two Christie aides found guilty in 2017 of conspiracy, fraud, misuse of public infrastructure and violation of the civil rights of citizens.
Sued for the sudden closure, in September 2013, of two lanes of the George Washington Bridge, which links Fort Lee, New Jersey, to Upper Manhattan, New York, creating extensive traffic congestion on the New Jersey side Jersey for four days.
It later emerged that the partial closure of the bridge came as a political retaliation against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, for failing to support Governor Christie in his re-election campaign.
The scandal put Christie in the eye of the hurricane, whose name had come to sound then as his party’s favorite for the primaries. Trump finally prevailed.
On Chris Christie’s candidacy
After ceasing to be governor, in 2018, he was hired by the ABC network as a political analyst, given his closeness to Trump. With whom he definitively broke up when the New York businessman questioned the cleanliness of the 2020 elections.
Christie became the director of Trump’s transition team when he was elected president. Although he ended up being replaced by the then vice president-elect, Mike Pence, in the midst of the “Bridgegate” scandal.
Prior to the presentation of his candidacy, the creation of a Political Action Committee (PAC) was announced. Financially supports his political aspirations and baptized “Tell It Like It Is” (say it as it is).
This PAC is chaired by William P. Palatucci, a longtime adviser to Christie and a member of the National Committee of the Republican Party.