Chris Christie, the scandal-plagued former Governor of New Jersey, just may be prepping for a 2024 run at the White House. I can’t think of a single other reason we’d have to see his face in the news recently. In fact, I definitely can’t imagine why he’d be sitting down with Axios reporter Mike Allen for an interview if he wasn’t planning on jumping in the race.

I’m none too thrilled about that, of course. I think he was a lousy governor and that he was involved in only slightly fewer ethics breaches than Trump himself.

But I’d be lying if I didn’t enjoy the fact that, during his interview, he shot back at Trump over comments the former president has made lately.

Trump had recently criticized Christie after the candidate’s remarks at a Las Vegas event, where Christie told the audience that Republicans needed to focus on the future instead of rehashing the 2020 election. Trump said that Christie “was just absolutely massacred by his statements that Republicans have to move on from the past, meaning the 2020 Election Fraud.”

No such blowback happened, of course. His comments were widely received as positive.

When Allen asked Christie about it in the interview, Christie did not mince words:

I’m not gonna get into a back-and-forth with Donald Trump. But what I will say is this: When I ran for reelection in 2013, I got 60% of the vote. When he ran for reelection, he lost to Joe Biden. I’m happy to have that comparison stand up, because that’s the one that really matters.

What really matters to Donald Trump is not being called a loser. I don’t know if he can manage to maintain feuds with both the Democrats and the Republicans who think he’s a joke now, but I am positive it won’t stop him from trying.

Watch an excerpt from Axios on HBO:

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