“If Gov. Ron DeSantis follows political consultants’ advice to defend former President Donald Trump during the first Republican presidential debate next week,’ then he should ‘get the hell out of the race,” former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Friday, poking Mr. DeSantis from his home state of Florida,” the New York Times reports.
Said Christie: “He should do Donald Trump a favor and do our party a favor, come back to Tallahassee and endorse Donald Trump. The only way to beat someone is to beat him.”