Chris Christie was asked by a supporter when he was going to "take the gloves off" and start "smacking" Donald Trump around. Chris Christie promised the supporter he would do that, and because he's Chris Christie he made sure to say it in the most jerkish and condescending way possible.
"Listen, you know when I will? When I think it makes sense to, OK?" Christie said. "I'm not in this to just beat Donald Trump. I'm in this to become president of the Untied States, and I have to make certain decisions about when I'm going to say what I'm going to say."
I don't think he actually said "Untied States" there, I think that's just a typo. Still, it's got a certain ring to it.
Fear not, however. Chris Christie knows what he is doing. He has got Donald Trump and all the other candidates right where he wants them, which is to say ahead of him in the polls and largely ignoring him and his vanity campaign.
At one point, Christie concluded: "I have a plan, I'm going to execute my plan."
But, the questioner exclaimed, "We're running out of time."
Christie responded: "No, we're not running out of time. We're not running out of time."
Calendars are not in charge of Chris Christie, Chris Christie is in charge of the calendars. If he has to shut down Tuesdays to prove a point, by God he'll do it.
Still, you have to feel a little bad that Chris Christie has spent this long on the campaign trail and hasn't gotten even a little of the usual pundit banter declaring him flavor-of-the-week as the press corps and establishment Republicans frantically search for a candidate who can mount an appeal to the base even half as effective as Trump's masterful plan to deport everybody and let God sort it out. He was once the Great Republican Hope himself, way back when. On magazine covers and everything.