Former New Jersey governor blasted his fellow Republican presidential candidates before his announcement in New Hampshire that he would drop out.
Mr Christie spoke to someone named Wayne before his announcement Wednesday evening in Windham, New Hampshire, but did not realise that his microphone was on. The former New Jersey governor who endorsed former president Donald Trump in 2016 but staged campaign throughout last year criticising the former president said that many people did not want to hear what he had to say.
“People don’t want to hear it, Wayne,” he said. “We know we’re right. But they don’t want to hear it. We couldn’t have been any clearer.”
Mr Christie also highlighted how former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley spent and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on television ads, while he said he spent a fraction of that.
“Who’s punching above their weight and who’s going getting a return on their investment,” he said.
““She’s gonna get smoked,” Mr Christie said about Ms Haley. “You and I both know it, she’s not up to this.”
The person speaking with Mr Christie said Mr Trump was beating Ms Haley by twenty points in New Hampshire and asked if Mr Trump would likely win the Iowa caucus.
“Oh, easily,” Mr Christie said. “DeSantis called me and he’s petrified.”
The feed then cut out.
