Ep. 468 — Chris Christie

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie considers Donald Trump a friend, but he has been outspoken against the former president’s insistence that the 2020 election was stolen. He is now considering a run for president in 2024 and has said a Trump candidacy would not stop him. He joined David to talk about the need for truth in politics, his battle with Covid-19, the virus’ lasting impacts on society, and his hope that his new book, “Republican Rescue,” gives other Republicans courage to speak out against lies and conspiracy theories.

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Ax Files, with your host, David Axelrod.
0:18.0	You can hardly turn on your TV these days without bumping into Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governors on tour with a new book, Republican Rescue,
0:26.0	saving the party from conspiracy theorists, truth deniers, and the dangerous policies of Joe Biden.
0:32.0	I was eager to ask him if the Grand Old Party was exactly asking to be saved right now, and whether he thought he was the guy to do it.
0:39.0	So I did, when Christie returned to the Ax Files for a live recording at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics last week.
0:47.0	Now folks, we're dropping this podcast early in this holiday week, and I want to thank you for listening, and wish you and yours all the best. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Here's our conversation.
1:08.0	Governor, welcome back to the Institute of Politics. Happy to be back, David.
1:11.0	And the Ax Files. Good to be with you again.
1:15.0	So here's this book, Republican Rescue, saving the party from truth deniers, conspiracy theorists, and the dangerous policies of Joe Biden.
1:24.0	You're on a national tour. You can barely turn on the TV without saying you, I think you're up to something.
1:31.0	No, not me, David.
1:34.0	Tell me, one thing that interests me is, I don't know, when did you turn this manuscript in?
1:40.0	Turned it went finally in late August.
1:45.0	Late August. So then comes November, the election in Virginia, the election in New Jersey, which was closer than anticipated, and all over the country, pretty good Republican day.
1:57.0	Right now, if you went to Vegas, and I'm no shill for the Republican Party, but if you went to Vegas, you'd get pretty good odds that the Republicans would, you know, they're going to be successful.
2:09.0	According to the odds makers right now, 22, maybe 24.
2:14.0	So do you get it? Do people, anybody come up to you and say, hey, thanks, pal, but we don't need rescuing?
2:20.0	No, the interesting thing is that even despite all what you just mentioned, Republicans that I talk to know that they do.
2:27.0	Look, we lost between 2018 and 2020, the House, the Senate, and the White House.
2:32.0	The only other time that happened in the history of the Republican Party in two years was 1930 to 1932 with Herbert Hoover, and then Democrats kept the White House for 28 in the next 36 years.
2:45.0	So I think we understand that we've got some challenges.
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