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Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president and dropped out shortly before the Iowa caucus in January 2024. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 

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Latest Fact-Checks Of Chris Christie

Christie’s claim on Trump’s China trade deal is on the right track, but hinges on the math
By Louis Jacobson, Grace Abels
December 19, 2023

Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”

Fact-checking Chris Christie on U.S. security obligations toward Ukraine
By Louis Jacobson
November 9, 2023

“In 1992, this country made a promise to Ukraine. We said if you return nuclear missiles that were part of the old Soviet Union to…

Chris Christie’s math on apprehensions and detention space is mostly right, but omits context
By Maria Ramirez Uribe
October 20, 2023

“In the last 11 months, Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 200,000 apprehensions a month, and you know how many beds we have to detain…

Chris Christie knocks Ron DeSantis for Florida’s increased spending. But he omits revenue rose, too.
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman
September 8, 2023

Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, “in the last five years, spending has gone up 30%" in Florida.

Trump did not sign any major immigration laws, but he did issue orders that changed policy
By Amy Sherman
June 12, 2023

Donald Trump “never changed one immigration law.”

Chris Christie exaggerates about Joe Biden capital-gains tax proposal
By Louis Jacobson
May 6, 2021

"Joe Biden is proposing that any family who tries to pass a business or a farm down to their son or daughter or grandson or…

Stamp this one ‘correct;’ Chris Christie says Clinton wrong about work-related emails
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.
July 20, 2016

Says Hillary Clinton "said all work-related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said, that's not true."

In RNC speech, Chris Christie says Clinton called Assad a ‘reformer,’ a ‘different kind of leader’
By Nadia Pflaum
July 20, 2016

Says "(Clinton) called President Assad a ‘reformer.’ She called Assad a ‘different kind of leader.’ "  

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By Jon Greenberg
January 29, 2016

Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters "knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it."  

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By Amy Sherman
January 15, 2016

"I didn’t support Sonia Sotomayor."    

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