Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) poked a sore spot of Donald Trump’s on Wednesday after the previous president attacked him and two sitting GOP governors as “RINOs” for supporting Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
“Insightful remark about 3 Republican Governors who have been overwhelmingly re-elected via their folks from a former president who misplaced to Joe Biden,” Christie tweeted. “Perhaps the “R” in RINO in reality stands for re-elected.”
RINO, one in every of Trump’s favourite insults for conservatives who don’t improve him, stands for “Republican in title best.”
Trump has had a vendetta towards Kemp for the reason that governor’s determination to certify Georgia’s 2020 election effects, hindering Trump’s relentless efforts to turn the presidential vote rely to his choose beneath false pretenses of fraud on the polls. Trump’s newest commentary accused Kemp of being the “worst election integrity governor within the nation.”
Christie, Ducey and Ricketts are campaigning for Kemp in his number one problem towards former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), whom Trump has counseled. Perdue has peddled Trump’s lies that the election he misplaced to Biden used to be “rigged and stolen.”
Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and looks most probably to take action once more in 2024, used to be an established best friend of Trump’s. He has been deeply essential of the previous president over his function in inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, assault at the U.S. Capitol via Trump supporters.