Chris Christie, providing yet another not-so-subtle hint that he is likely to run for President in 2016, said Thursday that he thought the next commander-in-chief would be a governor — like him.
“I think a governor is going to be the nominee,” the New Jersey governor told NBC’s “Today” in an interview.
“A governor or a former governor,” Christie added, suggesting he thought he or former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush would have the best chance at winning the GOP 2016 nomination and the presidency itself. “Our party and our country need somebody who has actually run something.
“I don’t believe we’ve done well with the experiment of a one-term U.S. senator being president,” he said, in a thinly veiled attack on Sens. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz — all freshman senators and the only three Republicans to have formally announced 2016 campaigns.
But when pressed on whether he himself had decided to run, Christie said he and his wife were still struggling with the answer.
“Mary Pat and I have not made this decision yet,” he said.
Christie has repeatedly said he would decide by late spring or early summer.
His actions, however, appear to be speaking louder than those words.
The Garden State governor paid a visit to New Hampshire this week to deliver a highly publicized speech on entitlement reform and will return to the first-in-the-nation primary state next week.
