Former GOP Governor Chris Christie: Trump Is The Only Republican Biden Can Beat

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said during an interview on Sunday that former President Donald Trump was the only Republican that President Joe Biden can beat in a general election and that the president would lose to any other Republican.

Christie made the remarks during an roundtable discussion on ABC News’ “This Week” when discussing how new polling has shown that the 34-count felony indictment returned by a Manhattan grand jury last week is starting to hurt Trump’s poll numbers after seeing an initial boost.

“No matter what he says and his people say, being indicted is not good for political candidate,” Christie said. “Like that’s just — you know, he can get short-term bump among certain parts of our own party. But in the end, it’s not good to be indicted.”

“Being indicted, the public does still look at that and say that’s not what should be happening to a national leader,” he said.

Christie said that the special counsel that the Biden administration tapped to lead the two federal criminal investigations into Trump is someone who is serious about getting convictions.

“I think when you bring over a war crimes tribunal prosecutor to be a special counsel, those are generally not known as low-key men and women,” he said. “I don’t know what Jack’s Smith will or won’t do, but that was not a compromiser that they brought over here. That was not somebody who they brought over to try to plea the case out.”

Christie said that Trump’s endorsements in the 2022 midterms hurt the Republican Party and will be something that damages him in the 2024 election.

“The Donald Trump endorsements and the awful candidates, whether it was Kari Lake or Herschel Walker or Tim Michels in Wisconsin or Mastriano in Pennsylvania,” he said. “Those were the candidates that lost and they were Donald Trump’s candidates.”

“I think Donald Trump is the only Republican [Biden] can beat,” Christie later added. “I don’t think he can beat any other Republican who gets nominated.”

Top House Republican Warns: U.S. Needs To Arm Taiwan Fast, Beef Up U.S. Military Presence To Avoid War

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) warned during an interview over the weekend that China is using all means of warfare available to try to take over Taiwan.

Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that the Chinese Communist Party was trying to intimidate the U.S. with their recent military exercises near Taiwan.

Chinese dictator “Xi Jinping would love to achieve that reunification without force if possible,” Gallagher said. “And the way to do that is through psychological warfare. It’s through economic coercion. It’s through political warfare. And that’s really what President Tsai of Taiwan has been warning us about.”

“It’s what she calls cognitive warfare. So it’s important for the American people not to be intimidated,” he continued. “And the fact that the Chinese were throwing a temper tantrum about the speaker of the House meeting with the democratically elected leader of Taiwan on American soil just shows you how sensitive they are.”

Gallagher, who is a U.S. military veteran, said that the U.S. needs to provide Taiwan with weapons and the U.S. needs to “be moving heaven and earth to surge power out to the Indo-Pacific before it’s too late, before we have another war on our hands.”

Gallagher said that the “most important” weapon that the U.S. needed to send to Taiwan are “Harpoon anti-ship missiles.”

“I remain convinced that there’s more we can do to move Taiwan to the front of the line, ahead of Saudi Arabia, for example, when it comes to Harpoon deliveries, as well as take the Harpoon missiles that we’re putting into deep storage, that we’re de-milling, and change around a few aspects of them so that we can deliver them to Taiwan,” he said. “We could also explore licensing certain weapons systems so the Taiwanese could produce them domestically. But, at the end of the day, it just comes down to energy and focus and prioritization from the executive branch. We need the secretary of defense himself to get involved, to make this a daily priority for the backlog to get cleared.”