Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is urging New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
“I don’t care if [Chris Christie] wants to run, his country needs him, it appears,” Coulter told Fox News on Monday. “There are a few things he’s a little bit soft on… We have to run somebody and if we don’t run Chris Christie, it’s going to be Romney because Republican primary voters for some reason refuse to do any research before voting. They vote for the name of anyone they’ve ever heard before.”
Coulter, who is known for her harsh rhetoric against Democrats, said in a speech Saturday that President Barack Obama will be reelected in 2012 if Christie isn’t in the race.
“If we don’t run Chris Christie, Romney will be the nominee and we’ll lose,” Coulter said at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, referring to 2008 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.
Christie is a former U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
