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Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, former New Jersey Gov. Christ Christie has made calling out former President Trump a top priority.

Christie's view is Trump lacks the fortitude, character, and capacity to lead this nation again. He also warned that the former president's internal longings for retribution stand as the only motivators driving his campaign.

In addition to spending a lot of time in New Hampshire, Christie's been calling out his opponents. The former governor argues that Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy haven't effectively distanced from Trump or appropriately denounced him.

Over the weekend, Christie further raised these concerns about Haley in particular.

A bone to pick

During an appearance on Face the Nation, Christie dismissed polling that shows Haley rising in New Hampshire, fresh off an endorsement from Sununu. Despite the former UN ambassador having the state governor's support, Christie still wrote off the surveys as "foolish."

He also questioned whether or not Haley's running for president or to be Trump's vice president, should the latter win the nomination. Christie told Face the Nation his opponent has yet to "answer questions" about Trump and didn't explicitly state she wouldn't serve as his vice president.

So far, only Christie and DeSantis are on record confirming they won't accept a VP offer from the 45th president.

The former governor then slammed Haley for stating Trump is "fit" to be president, despite her view that America needs to move on from all the chaos she says he brings. Christie declared that deeming Trump as fit for office is unacceptable, given his praise of dictators like Russian President Putin.

During a separate appearance on CNN, Christie also accused Haley of "enabling" the former president. In the aftermath of Trump declaring immigrants are "poisoning" America's blood, Christie professed Haley ought to be "ashamed" for still saying he's fit for the White House.

Haley on Trump's 2024 campaign

Haley, to her end, claims the 2024 election isn't a matter of whether Trump's "fit" to be president, but is instead about whether he "should" get back in the White House. According to the former UN ambassador, the 45th president should not be president again, but was the right person for the job from 2016 to 2020.

Christie, nonetheless, believes Haley should forcefully denounce Trump in unequivocal terms.