“It is a teenage, you know, food fight between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, and I don’t think that’s what leaders should be doing,” Christie told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “It certainly doesn’t make me feel inspired as an American, on the Fourth of July weekend, to have this type of back-and-forth going on at all, and it’s wrong to be doing it, and it’s narrowing our country, and making us smaller,” the former New Jersey governor said.
“And I’m not comfortable with the way both Gov. DeSantis and Donald Trump are moving our debate in this country.” “We have 21% of our students in the 10th grade saying that they’re using hard illegal drugs. And this is the kind of stuff that we’re talking about?” the former governor added. Fellow Republican presidential hopeful Will Hurd echoed Christie’s message in a separate “State of the Union” interview later Sunday.