Chris Christie's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Chris Christie did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "Conservatives, like me, for the last 50 years have been arguing this is not a federal issue it is a state issue and its something the states should decide. The Dobbs case one year ago gave us the opportunity to let each state make this decision" (twitter.com)
- "I think that the Dobbs decision was the right decision, because I believe Roe V Wade was constitutionally flawed" (justthenews.com)
- "This should be determined by the 50 states. The issue of abortionâs not in the Constitution. And the Constitution says if itâs not explicitly said here, this power reverts to the states," Christie said at the April event, later adding, "I would not be for the federal government being involved in the issue of abortion in any way. I believe the states should make the decisions." (www.nbcnews.com)
- "What I stand for, Anderson, is what conservatives have been arguing for for 50 years, which is that Roe [v. Wade] was wrong, thereâs no federal constitutional right to an abortion and that the states should decide. And I absolutely believe that each state should make their decision on this," (thehill.com)
- "(They're) a group of liars and cowards, because they know that in 10 years, Medicare will be bankrupt. And in 11 years, Social Security will be bankrupt" (myfox8.com)
- "The most disgusting part of Joe Biden's State of the Union address this year was when he stood up, and he said, 'we'll all agree, right? We're not going to do anything to social security?' and both sides got up and cheered" enews/campaign/4159979-christie-social-security-medicare-cuts-are-a-necessary-political-risk-in-todays-economy/
- "We have to look at things like means testing for the very wealthy [who] donât need to get Social Security," Christie said. "And secondly, for people in their 30s and 40s we need to consider, you know, raising the retirement age." (www.cnbc.com)
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- "Inflation has started to retreat, I think almost exclusively because of Federal Reserve policy. We're certainly not seeing any reduction in spending by the Biden administration, and they're printing lots of free money" (www.cnbc.com)
- "This guy is the Jimmy Carter of the 2020s, and his inflation that he created, and don't take my word for it: Democratic economist former treasury secretary to Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, has said that Joe Biden created this inflation through his ridiculous spending" (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
- "He knows he's done something that is illegal and ove rthe top... the policy does nothing to control college costs. The reason people have higher loans is because college is more expensive. This does not make college less expensive. It makes it more expensive, when you're giving away things" (www.cnbc.com)
- "Joe Bidenâs student loan forgiveness plan is (1) illegal; (2) will add fuel to inflation according to President Obamaâs chief economist; and, (3)encourage colleges & universities to increase tuition even more costing future students. 3 lousy results & 3 strikes youâre out." (twitter.com)
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- WMUR "I've watched the example in my home state. We are the most densely populated state in America, and we have gotten 53% of our electricity annually from nuclear. Nuclear can really help us reach both reliability and to get down to net zero on carbon, we need to continue to support and develop wind and solar" (www.wmur.com)
- "We can't disarm ourselves economically while we convert to cleaner energy, we can't have our aspirations oustrip our innovation" (www.wmur.com)
- Vetoed A 4701 "Requires State Participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative" (None)
- "RGGI does nothing more than tax electricity, tax our citizens, tax our businesses, with no discernible or measurable impact upon our environment," (www.nytimes.com)
- "I don't think with 350 Million or so guns out there that tighter gun control is going to keep the gun out of the hands of someone who's going to do what happened in Las Vegas or what happened in Uvalde or what happened in Sandy Hook" (www.cnn.com)
- "I learned the difference, and I learned what the limitations are of these laws that people are talking about and how they much, much more greatly infringe on law-abiding citizens than they do anything to prevent crime. Having learned that, my positions changed." (www.politico.com)
- "What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending much too much time talking about gun laws against law-abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals" (thereload.com)
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- Politico "The 'facts' supporting that assertion are flimsy at best and put the burden for their mistake, as usual, on the taxpayers." (www.politico.com)
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- "Israel needs help. Ukraine needs help. Our southern border needs to be secured" (twitter.com)
- "My first action as President: Sign an executive order to send the national guard to our southern border" (twitter.com)
- CNN "No matter how hard our Customs and Border patrol agents and our immigration and customs enforcement agents are working, they need backup" (www.cnn.com)
- USA Today "Trump told everyone that he was going to build us a âbig beautiful wallâ and that Mexico was going to pay for it, we got 52 miles of new wall and havenât received a single peso from Mexico. This disaster at the border is just as much his fault as it is Joe Bidenâs." (www.usatoday.com)
- CBS "We want you here in this country to fill the 6 million vacant jobs we have. But only if you come here to follow the law and only if you come here legally. If you come here illegally, we will apprehend you and we will send you back across the border from which you came. And the fact is that until we set a law and order agenda in this country, not only now but in the future, we won't be able to continue this." (www.cbsnews.com)
- NBC "Just immediately going to a path to citizenship--as Hillary Clinton is proposing to do--is just pandering politics, it's not based upon an educated study of the issue." (www.nbcnews.com)
- WMUR "Legal immigration has made this country great. We need to set up a system that encourages people to do it that way." (www.wmur.com)
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- "This is the regime that Ukraine is fighting. This is not a territorial dispute, Gov. Desantis. This is not something we should ignore, Donald Trump. This is something that America stands up against and those folks deserve and have earned our support" (www.wmur.com)
- "America needs to stand up to prevent and to work with friends like the Ukrainians to give them the means necessary for them to be able to secure once again their liberty and their freedom" (apnews.com)
- "I want them to have every weapon they need to be able to win, and this is a proxy war, not just against Russia... but as you know, it's a proxy war against China" (thehill.com)
- "It was an honor to meet with President @ZelenskyyUa in Ukraine and see firsthand the heroism Ukrainians have displayed in their fight against Russia. America has never moved forward by ignoring the rest of the world. We canât start now." (twitter.com)
- Yahoo Sports "In my first week as President we would ban TikTok. They wanna go ahead and sell, let them go ahead and sell it." (sports.yahoo.com)
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