Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joined The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his expectations for President Trump this week during his acceptance speech at the RNC.
“It has to be a substantive, policy speech. Where he lays out what he wants to do if the American people give him four more years. The reason to do that, is not because the American people are unsure about Donald Trump but to force Joe Biden to discuss his specifics.”
Christie continued, “If you look at his (Biden) speech last Thursday night it was absolutely devoid of specifics. All they wanted to do last week was prove that Joe Biden is a good, decent human being.”
Christie would also advise the president to avoid running the same race he ran in 2016.
“We ran a slash and burn, negative race. Almost exclusively because Hillary Clinton was among the most disliked major Presidential candidates in recent American history. That is not the case with Joe Biden. The American people don’t dislike Joe Biden, they don’t distrust Joe Biden.”
Christie concluded, “What we have to say is ‘he’s a very nice man, whose very wrong on the issues.’”
Christie also weighed in on the issue of mail-in voting for New Jersey being too tall a task for the system to handle for a general election in 2020.
“It’s not a public health risk to stand in the line at the MVC, it’s not a public health risk to stand in line to figure out your unemployment check problem that people have been waiting weeks, some people months for. But it is a public health risk that it is [necessary] having to send out 4 to 5 million ballots in the mail.”
He continued, “The county clerks, in each one of our counties are not going to be ready or prepared to be able to do something with a delouse of votes like that. They don’t have the equipment to scan those ballots. It’s going to take weeks or even months before we know the outcome of the election.”
Christie also gave advice for the President went it comes to handling the coronavirus while on the campaign trail.
"They don't expect you to fix it overnight. What they want to be is honest, transparent and make some progress every day. That's the way the President should be talking about this. Don't expect to wave a magic wand and miraculously go away. So, let's not say that because it can't happen."
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