“I’m not one of these guys that’s going to sit around and complain about this, OK,” he told NBC News on Saturday after he took questions from an Iowa crowd.

“If you can’t take it, on the stage, no matter whether it’s fair or unfair, and I thought there was a lot of unfair stuff the other night,” Christie said. “But if you can’t take it, then how are you going to take running against Hillary Clinton, how are you going to take negotiating for America around the world?”