CAVUTO: “You got a lot of people booing you. And unlike Ronald Reagan, he was not booed by many in his own party at the time. Did you get a sense with that exchange, Governor, that you don’t have a chance at this nomination?”

CHRISTIE: “Not at all. And in fact, look, the hall is a small group of people compared to our Republican Party across the country. And that’s why, Neil, if you look at the newest poll that’s come out of New Hampshire just three days ago, I’m now comfortably in second place at 14 percent of the vote. Clear by margin of error, past Vivek Ramaswamy who is in second — third place. Five points ahead of Ron DeSantis who is now at 9 percent. Now, we have a ways to go. We still have 20 points to catch up to Donald Trump. But I have only been in this race for two and a half months and I’ve gone from 0 to 14 in New Hampshire. So I’m not discouraged at all. I’m incredibly encouraged. And let’s face it, who was booing me in the crowd last night? Some of the folks who were doing the loudest booing are the people who are invested in the swamp that Donald Trump helped to create for them in Washington, D.C. He said he was going to drain the swamp, and all he did was rearrange it. And rearrange it so that members of his own family can do the same things that Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family are doing right now. Here’s the promise I’ll make to the American people. There will be no members of the Christie family in government when I’m president and there will be no members of the Christie family who will profit from my government service. And neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump can say that about their families.”

[Well, yeah, but what else is he going to say? Ramaswamy got booed pretty lustily at a couple of points too, but that won’t discourage him either. But really, Christie’s in DGAF mode and everyone knows it. He’s in the race to take down Trump and now Trump’s clone Ramaswamy. If that gets him traction in the primary, fine, but that’s not his top priority. — Ed]