Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Donald Trump is “not what he used to be” after the former president delivered a speech to a half empty room at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on a Saturday.
“There’s no doubt, he’s essentially an incumbent president running for renomination — not reelection, but renomination — and so of course, he’s the front-runner right now and ahead in the polls,” Christie said of Trump on ABC Sunday, according to The Hill. “But there are lots of indicators here, that he’s not what he used to be.”
Trump announced his bid for the GOP nomination last November and since then he has been running a lowkey campaign with very few public appearances. Christie believes that is because of Trump’s obsession with crowd size and not many people would attend his rallies.
“The fact of what’s going on here is the reason, I think, the rallies are not going on … is not just because of the money, although I think that’s a factor, I don’t think the rallies would be nearly as big as they were,” Christie said. “And you know, what got him upset on Jan. 6? The crowd size. What kind of upset on Jan. 20, 2017? The crowd size. He measures that as an example of his own power and his own authority and I don’t think he hasn’t anymore.”
