Chris Christie doubles down on Trump attacks and Social Security cuts

Former New Jersey Gov. and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Chris Christie launched his latest blitz against Donald Trump connected Fox News connected Sunday.

He claimed that the erstwhile president has lied astir the size of his rally crowds and failed to support his argumentation promises.

"The radical successful the Republican Party, and rather broadly crossed America, are bushed of having governmental candidates who are snake lipid salesmen who conscionable don't archer them the truth, who archer them immoderate they deliberation they privation to perceive astatine the moment," Christie told Fox News.

Christie deemed the estimated sizes of Trump's rally crowds "absurd."

"Tens of thousands don't amusement up anymore. That's different 1 of the large lies," helium added. "All you person to bash is look astatine the pictures."

Christie has go 1 of Trump's astir vocal critics, adjacent arsenic the erstwhile president who is presently embroiled successful respective criminal investigations carries a important polling pb successful the GOP's crowded campaigner pool.

Trump and Christie besides diverge connected Social Security reform.

Trump has rejected cutting the programme astatine all. In the Sunday interview, Christie was adjacent much staunch successful his stance connected means investigating for Social Security, which would exclude radical astatine higher incomes from receiving those benefits. He besides stood by his connection to rise the status age.

"Do the extraordinarily affluent request to cod Social Security? Do we truly request to person Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk collecting Social Security?" helium said.

A erstwhile U.S. attorney, Christie besides criticized the five-year-long investigation into Hunter Biden's alleged taxation crimes, saying it is "either a prevarication oregon it's incompetent."

"There's nary mode that it should instrumentality 5 years to get to a two-count misdemeanor taxation plea and past to disregard the weapon charges" against President Joe Biden's son, helium said.

Christie launched his long-shot bid connected June 6 and is trailing Trump's numbers astatine astir 2.5%, though helium has gained immoderate steam comparative to different candidates, according to aggregated polling from RealClear Politics. The erstwhile politician has besides touted big donors supporting his campaign.

To unafraid a spot successful the Republican superior debates starting successful August, the GOP candidates volition person to get 40,000 contributor donations and canvass supra 1% successful either 3 nationalist polls, oregon 2 nationalist polls and 1 authorities poll.