New Jersey governor Chris Christie has endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, but he remains weary of the competition: President Barack Obama.
In a live Facebook chat from Palo Alto, California on Monday, Christie praised Obama’s worthiness as an opponent, while also discussing education reform and his decision not to seek the Republican presidential nomination.
“Anyone who underestimates the president underestimates at their own peril,” said Christie. “[Democrats] know how to campaign, they know politics…people who believe he’s a shoe-in loser are wrong.”
Christie has endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican primary race, recently hitting the Romney campaign trail in New Hampshire, with upcoming stops planned in Florida and Iowa as well.
While he does think Obama will be a well financed and substantive opponent, he criticized Obama at his New Hampshire stop for the president’s handling of the U.S. economy.
“He’s saying to them ‘the American pie is only so big and we can’t grow it anymore,’” Christie told Republicans in New Hampshire as quoted in Reuters.
