Marco Rubio 2.0? Chris Christie mocks 'canned line' in Ron DeSantis' debate memo
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continues to target Ron DeSantis.
In comments Saturday in Atlanta, the former New Jersey Governor made light of a strategy memo released by the DeSantis political operation that telegraphed an attack on him at a debate next week.
“I don’t know. A canned line used by a Florida politician, on a debate stage, against me? What could go wrong?”
Christie’s callback was to a debate during the 2016 presidential campaign against Sen. Marco Rubio, in which he vivisected the then-candidate for overly scripted lines.
“The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisers...