‘He Was Pissed Off’: Megyn Kelly Reveals What Chris Christie Complained About During Debate Commercial Break
Megyn Kelly revealed on Thursday what Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie complained to her about during a NewsNation GOP debate commercial break.
On SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly – who served as one of the moderators – addressed the viral video showing Christie complaining to her during the break:
All over the internet last night was a video that went viral of somebody in the balcony filming Chris Christie coming over to yours truly during a break at the end of the first hour and kind of getting up in my grill, and there was all sorts of speculation about what was happening there. I will tell you what was happening there. It was not off the record. He was pissed off. He was mad that he wasn’t getting enough questions, and he said, “I made it up at this stage and I haven’t been able to speak in a while and, you know, I should have been brought in on that last debate.”
And, you know, I had a couple minds of it. I said, “We’re coming to you. You’re gonna be happy in the second hour,” which I lived up to. But number one, he was right that in the last run, he had been excluded, and the reason that happened is because we let them fight in the first 40 minutes of the debate, and therefore that comes at the expense of something, and where you insert yourself, Chris Christie, on this earlier fight or– it’s all at the expense of something else that’s coming. Which is fine, we were not wedded to our rundown, we had like 40 questions going out there, our goal was to ask ten of them, you know, in a perfect world, but the producers in the truck have to rejigger the rundown.
She continued:
The sort of even distribution of questions got mucked up by all the arguing. Having said all that, I knew very well that Christie was going to get asked a Trump question having to do with immigration at the top of the next hour, so it was totally fair to him, and he’s polling at 2%! Okay? In no debate ever, and I’ve now done six of them, have we given as many questions to the guy who’s at 3% as to the person who’s in the lead, at least amongst the candidates on the stage. I’m sorry, Governor Christie. That’s the way it is. And all said and done, CNN says this is the timing of the stage: Vivek got 22 minutes, DeSantis 21, Haley 17, Christie 16 and 52 seconds. So he was a half a minute behind Haley, who’s tied up there for number one.
Kelly concluded, “So I don’t want to hear it frankly. We did right by him, he got a ton of airtime. That’s what he was mad about. I like the guy, but just to break some news on what people speculating on.”
During the debate, Christie groused about being ignored after he was passed over for the first fifteen minutes of the event due to a lengthy spat between Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis.
“I’m usually not somebody who gets missed, but okay, let’s go,” Christie remarked.
Watch above via The Megyn Kelly Show.
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