Asked at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire if he would retain decorum when dealing with Donald Trump’s rudeness, former GOP New Jersey governor and man who used traffic as torture Chris Christie quickly. responded, “No,” going on to explain Republicans tried that tactic once and it didn’t work.
“Let me tell you why. Because we tried that with him in 2016, all of us ignored his insults,” Christie continued, USA Today reports. “We said, ‘We’re not gonna respond to that, we’re gonna go high and talk about other things and just let him do what he’s gonna do.’” Christie added the candidates will “have to fight him on the truth. … When he lies, we need to fight him. Because to ignore him is to assent to his lies.”