He added, however, what his family thinks about the prospect “matters deeply to me.”
“And just as importantly, what the potential impact would be on each and every one of them is something that weighs enormously on me, ” he said during his monthly “Ask the Governor” radio show.
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“Friends have run against each other before though … it’s just the way it goes,” he said. “If Jeb decides ultimately to run and I decide ultimately to run — I hope that what we could do is to run based upon our particular visions for the country and for our party, and may the best person win.”
Indeed, Christie invited the wide-open primary fight that’s developing, arguing that “if it’s a smart, respectful, substantive debate, that’s good for the party.”
“To the extent that it becomes difficult and divisive, it depends on how those people who are on the receiving end of that deals with it,” he said.
