Christie's take on NC
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Speaking this morning on ABC's This Week regarding Trump and his support for Robinson, the GOP candidate for governor in NC.
CHRISTIE: This was predictable. Mark Robinson’s tenure in public life has shown erratic, sometimes highly offensive statements over and over again. And Donald Trump supported him. And endorsed him. In fact, called him better than Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King Jr. on steroids, all right.
CHRISTIE: So, this was predictable. And this is the problem for us Republicans. As long as Donald Trump is your recruiting agent for candidates in swing states, we're going to continue to get our rear ends handed to us. And Mark Robinson is not going to win this race, can't win this race.
STEPHANOPOLOUS: Does Donald Trump have to do more to distance himself from Robinson? Yesterday, of course, he didn't mention his name, he also didn't repudiate him.
CHRISTIE: Right. Well, this -- Mark Robinson is starting to get the feel for what it's like to have been a former friend of Donald Trump's.
Donald Trump, from a political perspective, smells rotting flesh better than anybody you'll ever find and he sees this guy dying, and he's getting to making the distance. And I bet you, George, before we get to November 5th, he's going to claim to not even really know who Mark Robinson is.
You know that play he makes, where he goes -- we don't really know each other all that well I’ve never known him all that well and he's kind of latching on to me. I think you will see Trump distance himself more and more, because remember something -- the thing that makes I think North Carolina a little bit different is that you have Roy Cooper, the incumbent two-term governor --
STEPHANOPOULOS: Democratic.
CHRISTIE: Democrat, former attorney general. Now you have an attorney general, Democrat running for governor.
The law enforcement issue which is so important to these swing voters, they can sell in North Carolina that Democrats have done well from a law enforcement perspective different than in some other states. And so that combination of things I think makes North Carolina really interesting, and I think Trump's going to see he's going to have to distance himself from Robinson.
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