Donald Trump told New Jersey Governor Chris Christie just months after he launched his presidential campaign in June 2015 that he did not expect to stay in the race past October of that year, a new book claims.
Trump told Christie, who at that point was also running for president, that he “didn’t expect to make it past October” and would endorse Christie when he dropped out, an unnamed Christie adviser said, according to a new book out by several members of CNN’s political team.
“I think they always had an understanding that the first one out would probably endorse the other,” the adviser was quoted as saying in the book, “Unprecedented: The Election that Changed Everything” that is scheduled to be released on December six. During the throes of the Republican primary, Trump and Christie had a common enemy: Marco Rubio.