(CNN) There's an axiom in basketball that when you are playing against a gifted shot-blocker, the only effective strategy is to go right at him or her. Chris Christie is doing just that against Donald Trump as they both circle the 2024 race. Asked by Axios how he responded to an attack by Trump that Christie had left office with a single-digit approval rating, the former New Jersey governor said this"I'm not gonna get into a back-and-forth with Donald Trump. (It was that speech, and the wall-to-wall coverage that Christie received from it, that prompted the former President to attack his onetime ally.) (Hear Christie talk about this more extensively on Monday night -- he sat down with CNN's Dana Bash for an episode of her ongoing series "Being...")

Source: CNN November 12, 2021 03:29 UTC