Chris Christie: Most effective Trump ad was 'Kamala Harris is for they/them'

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said on Sunday he agrees with Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) that the far left helped propel President-elect Trump to victory, adding that the most effective Trump campaign ad was "Kamala Harris is for they/them, and Donald Trump is for us."

"Well, he’s absolutely right,” Christie said about Torres, in a panel discussion on ABC News’s “This Week” with Jonathan Karl, “because the Democratic Party, from 2017 through 2024, went off the deep end.”

“I mean, the stuff they have been saying is just offensive to a large percentage of the American people. The DEI stuff is offensive to a large swath of the American people,” Christie, who ran an unsuccessful 2024 presidential primary bid, continued, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Christie — an ally-turned-rival of the former president’s — said Democrats spent too much time talking about trans issues and pronouns, which Christie suggested could repel the average moderate Democrat and push them toward supporting the GOP ticket.

“The most effective ad that the Trump campaign ran in this campaign was, you know, 'Kamala Harris is for they/them, and Donald Trump is for us.'

“That’s because most people don’t see themselves as they/them. Yet, the Democrats have spent more time talking about a trans issue, which, quite frankly, is infinitesimal,” he said, before Karl cut in, noting that “to be fair, it was the Republicans who spent more time talking about it."

Christie pushed back, arguing Republicans were doing so in response to Democrats’ push.

The remarks come after Torres, who represents the Bronx, ripped into Democrats in a post-election analysis, saying the far left made it seem the full Democratic party embraces unpopular positions like “Defund the Police.”

“Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx,’” Torres wrote Wednesday on the social platform X.