PhillyVoice Article RatingRevisiting Chris Christie's history as friend, foe to Donald Trump as former governor enters presidential race
Jun 06, 2023 View Original Article
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| "At a presidential campaign event in 2015, Christie had a testy exchange with a man who questioned his record on gun ownership, since New Jersey has some of the strictest laws in the country." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Lately, Christie has been negatively tweeting about Trump concerning issues like illegal immigration and the war in Ukraine, even calling Trump a coward and a puppet of (Vladimir) Putin during a radio appearance last month." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Republican candidates have widely emulated Trump and invoked his influence in the years since his presidency." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Lately, Christie has been negatively tweeting about Trump concerning issues like illegal immigration and the war in Ukraine, even calling Trump a coward and a puppet of (Vladimir) Putin during a radio appearance last month." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "But under the political circumstances, he still felt Trump's locker room talk description of the taped conversation with Billy Bush was the best response Trump could have given in his public apology." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "But under the political circumstances, he still felt Trump's locker room talk description of the taped conversation with Billy Bush was the best response Trump could have given in his public apology." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Plans for another presidential run, first reported by Axios, include Christie pitching himself to the exhausted majority of American voters and taking on Trump during the buildup to 2024." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Christie may be confident that he's a worthy adversary for Trump, but he will need considerably more support from Republican voters to level the playing field." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Christie, then a friend and advisor to Trump, called that leaked video hard to watch in his 2019 memoir." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But Christie, who began took a job as political contributor for ABC News after finishing his second term as New Jersey governor in January 2018, hasn't held his tongue on his opinion of the Trump administration, describing it as riffraff and the people in it as greedy, inexperienced, and not ready for prime time." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "He will be seeking the Republican nomination against a field of candidates that includes former President Donald Trump." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "And while Trump did go on to win that election, it's still the case that heading into the 2024 race, he's in the news most often these days for being the first U.S. president to be indicted for alleged criminal activity." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "After the 2016 election, Christie claimed he was offered seven different positions in the Trump administration but turned down all of them." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "For Trump, a public fight with Chris Christie -- a man who once stood by his side, only to change his tune years later -- could give him an easy target during primary season." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "He endorsed the former president after his own failed run in 2016, and despite not landing in a cabinet position in the Trump administration, as many speculated he would, Christie again endorsed Trump in 2020." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "He endorsed the former president after his own failed run in 2016, and despite not landing in a cabinet position in the Trump administration, as many speculated he would, Christie again endorsed Trump in 2020." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Certain aspects of Christie and Trump's partnership have always seemed uncomfortable." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "At the time, although Trump was popular with Republican voters, many in the party establishment still viewed him as a divisive, wildcard outsider." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Trump aounced his 2024 presidential campaign in November, before he was indicted in a federal case about his alleged role in a hush-money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Given his history with Trump, Christie has no other choice but to battle him on the campaign trail." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to aounce his 2024 presidential run on Tuesday, joining a growing field of Republican candidates trying to wrestle GOP power away from former President Donald Trump." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But in recent years he's sounded like anything but a friend of Trump's, posting numerous anti-Trump tweets and mocking the former president's defiant posture before his New York indictment as baloney." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Trump has not exactly demonstrated that the original concerns of Republicans were unfounded." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "As a former federal prosecutor, Christie claimed he couldn't stomach Trump's refusal to accept losing the election." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "There have been other theories and rumors about why Christie never became a part of Trump's cabinet." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Christie said he would have supported Trump's fight if there had been legitimate evidence to back up his claims, but the insistent lying put the country at risk." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Christie joins a growing field of Republicans hoping to become president in 2024, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Christie joins a growing field of Republicans hoping to become president in 2024, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Christie joins a growing field of Republicans hoping to become president in 2024, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Christie joins a growing field of Republicans hoping to become president in 2024, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "He said his support for Trump was not conditional on a job and that he was only interested in being either Trump's vice president or attorney general, neither of which were on the table." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "He said his support for Trump was not conditional on a job and that he was only interested in being either Trump's vice president or attorney general, neither of which were on the table." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Animosity between Christie and Trump's ier circle, including Steve Baon and Jared Kushner, have been among the explanations." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Trump's relentless conspiracies about a stolen election helped fuel the mob of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Christie, 60, has a complicated relationship with Trump." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "During a 2021 appearance on the podcast of CNN political commentator David Axelrod, formerly a senior advisor to Barack Obama, Christie explained why he distanced himself from Trump." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "During a 2021 appearance on the podcast of CNN political commentator David Axelrod, formerly a senior advisor to Barack Obama, Christie explained why he distanced himself from Trump." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "In Christie's 2021 book, Republican Rescue: Saving the Party From Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden, the Newark, New Jersey native laid out his case for the GOP to depart from Trump's brash brand of personality-driven politics and the right-wing fringes it has embraced." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In Christie's 2021 book, Republican Rescue: Saving the Party From Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden, the Newark, New Jersey native laid out his case for the GOP to depart from Trump's brash brand of personality-driven politics and the right-wing fringes it has embraced." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "He told audience members at the March event that his past support for Trump was a strategic error motivated by opposition to the Democratic candidates, and that he couldn't have predicted the kind of president Trump would be." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "He told audience members at the March event that his past support for Trump was a strategic error motivated by opposition to the Democratic candidates, and that he couldn't have predicted the kind of president Trump would be." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Even in the weeks before the 2016 election, when key Republican skeptics had embraced Trump as an alternative to Hillary Clinton, the leaking of the 2005 Access Hollywood tape put Trump in a light that made the GOP appear indifferent, at best, to a leader making such crude, misogynistic remarks." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Even in the weeks before the 2016 election, when key Republican skeptics had embraced Trump as an alternative to Hillary Clinton, the leaking of the 2005 Access Hollywood tape put Trump in a light that made the GOP appear indifferent, at best, to a leader making such crude, misogynistic remarks." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Christie's allegiance to Trump started to publicly unravel after Joe Biden's election victory in 2020, as Trump spread false claims of voter fraud with strident public statements and dozens of lawsuits that were repeatedly shot down by state and federal courts." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Christie's allegiance to Trump started to publicly unravel after Joe Biden's election victory in 2020, as Trump spread false claims of voter fraud with strident public statements and dozens of lawsuits that were repeatedly shot down by state and federal courts." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Christie's allegiance to Trump started to publicly unravel after Joe Biden's election victory in 2020, as Trump spread false claims of voter fraud with strident public statements and dozens of lawsuits that were repeatedly shot down by state and federal courts." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
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60% : At a presidential campaign event in 2015, Christie had a testy exchange with a man who questioned his record on gun ownership, since New Jersey has some of the strictest laws in the country.49% :Lately, Christie has been negatively tweeting about Trump concerning issues like illegal immigration and the war in Ukraine, even calling Trump a "coward" and a "puppet of (Vladimir) Putin" during a radio appearance last month.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.