Christie: Our Country Went Downhill After Obama; No Need to Repeat It with Rubio

STEPHANOPOULOS: “Let’s bring in Chris Christie right now, governor of New Jersey, got great reviews for that debate performance on Saturday night. Governor Christie, we just saw that poll this morning, the latest tracking poll still has you down in sixth place. So are you worried that you might have hurt Marco Rubio but not help yourself?”
CHRISTIE: “Absolutely not, George. What’s going to happen is this race is now wide open. No one knows what’s really going on in this race at all. And we sense real momentum on the ground for us. And we’re looking to run right through the tape on Tuesday. And really do very, very well.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “You hit him so hard on Saturday night, called him the anointed one yesterday. Made the clear case he’s not ready to be president. Can you say the same thing about front-runner Donald Trump?”
CHRISTIE: “Listen, my focus on Saturday night is Marco Rubio, the senator’s first-term United States senator. A fact is, he’s never accomplished anything of any note in the United States Senate. In fact, one of the accomplishments he noted, he wasn’t even there to vote for. But this is not about me or him, George, it’s about the American people. We elected seven years ago a president who, you know, was a first-term United States senator and never ran anything in his life, and we watched our country go downhill the last seven years. We don’t need to repeat the same mistake. My experience being tested in my state by hurricane Sandy, by a Democratic legislature, best prepares me to be the next president of the United States.”