Chris Christie Files Paperwork to Run for President

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has filed papers to run for president in 2024, throwing his hat into an already-crowded ring of contenders.
Christie filed his papers with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) on June 6. Christie, who served two terms as the governor of New Jersey, has been out of political office since the end of his second term in 2018.
Like former Vice President Mike Pence, Christie has indicated he’ll run a campaign calling for a return to the traditional—pre-Donald Trump—Republican Party.
Christie has been far more critical of Trump, an erstwhile ally, than Pence, calling Trump a “coward” and a “puppet of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”…}