Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie took aim at fellow 2024 GOP hopeful Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, for dodging a question about the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol by saying that he was nowhere near the Capitol that day.
“He wasn’t anywhere near Washington. Did he have a TV? Was he alive that day? Did he see what was going on? I mean, that’s one of the most ridiculous answers I’ve heard in this race so far,” Christie, a former New Jersey governor, told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins late Wednesday.
During a New Hampshire campaign event earlier this week, a high school student asked DeSantis whether former President Trump “violated the peaceful transfer of power” in connection to the Jan. 6 attacks. The Florida governor pivoted to the student’s background and the 2024 election before saying he “didn’t enjoy” seeing the attacks but avoided directly answering the student’s question.
“I wasn’t anywhere near Washington that day. I have nothing to do with what happened that day,” DeSantis said Tuesday. “Obviously, I didn’t enjoy seeing, you know, what happened. But we gotta go forward on this stuff. We cannot be looking backwards and be mired in the past.”
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