“There will be times where I will say things that will make you shake your head,” he said. “But what you’ll never say is that I don’t know who he is and I don’t know what he believes, and I don’t what he’s willing to fight for and who he’s willing to fight to get there.”
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He even told the New Hampshire audience to go look up YouTube videos of his some of his more “interesting conversations” he’s had with constituents at town halls — a reference to the infamous verbal brawls that helped win the governor national fame in his first term.
It was the second week in a row he tried to frame his direct personality as a strength to an early primary audience, telling Iowans last Monday that he’s “not going to shrink away” from his style.
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The governor also tried to spell out a hardliner stance on foreign policy, knocking Hillary Clinton for hitting a so-called reset button with Russia and “told us we’re moving to a new era.”
“We sure did,” Christie said, also blasting President Barack Obama for what Christie called the president’s “abject failure” in a foreign policy that calls for “pulling back.”
At the end, Christie was presented with a basket of maple goodies. The governor joked that his youngest son has a sweet tooth and had requested that his dad pick up some syrup in New Hampshire.
But when he told his 11-year-old daughter earlier Monday that he was going the Granite State, he said she rolled her eyes and scoffed: “The president thing.”
