Christie: National Polls Don’t Matter Because We Don’t Have a National Primary

KELLY: "Joining us now, Governor of New Jersey and Republican presidential candidate, Chris Christie. Governor, great to see you. You must be feeling good listening to that."
CHRISTIE: "Sure. that's great. I'd a good time at the debate. I'm looking forward to getting back out on the campaign trail and doing my job, which is making sure we convince as many voters as we can leading up to Iowa and New Hampshire next month."
KELLY: "Do you feel like you've been somewhat of a dark horse in this race? Slow and steady wins the race?"
CHRISTIE: "I do. I think I was discounted early on. That's fine. You can't worry about the things you can't control. I just went out and laid out our program and plan and doing it the way you do it n Iowa and New Hampshire, day-to-day campaigning. We made an impression in the debates too. So I think we are doing well at the right time."
KELLY: "What is the path to victory for you? I realize that in New Hampshire now, you are tied for second place. But nationally, you're still down in the low single digits. So people say, oh, Christie, he is way down and Trump will be the first to point out, you are at three and I am at 41."
CHRISTIE: "Listen, none of that matters. We don't have a national primary. We have primary estate by state. When people start to vote, it changes to national numbers overnight. I think we will do well in Iowa and very well in New Hampshire. when we pull that off, you will see the national polls change very, very quickly and we will go state by state by state, Carolina, Nevada. So the path to victory is the same for me as anybody. You need to do well in Iowa or New Hampshire or you won't do well in this race. We will do well in New Hampshire and in Iowa and we will be one of the few that will be left. I think this race will be down to four or five candidates by February 10th."