Chris Christie delivers tough message to Republican audience, saying GOP gains hinge on moving on from 2020
CNN
While the other potential GOP White House aspirants continue to tip-toe around former President Donald Trump, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued Saturday that his week's election results marked the "beginning of a new era" for the Republican Party -- one that looks "forward and not backwards" as he addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas.
He offered implicit rebukes of former President Donald Trump's style throughout his speech, arguing that voters want someone to fight for them "but in a way that doesn't hurt their ears."
Christie defended his credentials as a Trump supporter at the gathering of some of party's most influential donors and bundlers. The line of Trump backers, he argued, is one that forms "behind me." But he noted that voters will only want to associate with a party that wins: "And winning campaigns are always the campaigns that look forward and not backwards" -- arguing that the party must move beyond the debate over the 2020 election results in order to engage voters more effectively.