Welcome to Washington. I'm David Drucker, a senior writer with the dispatch and thanks for joining us for another edition of the dispatch podcast.

On this episode, former New Jersey governor, Chris Christie. Governor Christie is on the cusp of deciding whether to enter the 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination

in what would be his second White House campaign.

And so we decided to check in with him to see where he is in the process, what his campaign would look like and his strategy for defeating the front runner,

former president Donald Trump.

Governor Chris Christie, thanks so much for joining us on the dispatch podcast.

David, thanks for having me.

Let me jump right in with the easy stuff. We'll get to the argumentative questions later where I try to make it a little bit interesting and newsworthy.

Easy stuff first.

Are you running for president?

Haven't decided yet, but I expect I'll decide in the next 10 days or so.

Okay.

Look, you and I have discussed over the past six months or so a couple of times this topic.

And you know, you would explain to me there are things you needed to figure out.

Could you raise the resources?

Do you think you can win?

And I think I'm stealing this line from you, but it's not all that glamorous to run for president.

And you know, when it's 10 degrees in Iowa and you've spent your fourth night in a row at some holiday and express,

it's not like the commercial.

You don't actually feel good in the morning.

So you want to know you can win if you're going to put forth the effort.

Is your family on board?

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