Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — who advised Donald Trump’s White House campaign in 2016, only to become a vocal critic of the former United States president in recent months — will launch a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination next week, news reports said, citing sources familiar with the plan.Christie, 60, enters the race as a decided underdog, six years after his 2016 presidential campaign failed to gain traction amid a crowded field that included Trump. Only one percent of Republicans said he would be their preferred 2024 nominee in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted from May 9 to 15.A former federal prosecutor, Christie has cast himself as the only potential candidate willing to aggressively take on Trump, the current frontrunner for the nomination. He was a longtime friend and adviser to Trump, but broke with the former president over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. Christie has since emerged as a leading critic of Trump.
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