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Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie announced he would seek the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential election in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, June 6.

Speaking to a crowd at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Christie spent much of his time attacking Donald Trump, who has also announced a bid for the presidency.

“Beware of the leader in this country, who you have handed leadership to, who has never made a mistake, who has never done anything wrong, who when something goes wrong it’s always someone else’s fault. And who has never lost,” Christie said, referring to Trump.

“Beware – because that leader will not only not serve you, they will not be able to find anyone that will serve them. And a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving, mirror-hog is not a leader,” he continued.

Christie also attacked “pretenders”, who he said were attempting to appeal to similar audiences as the former president without linking themselves to Trump, saying: “And so now, we have ‘pretenders’, all around us, who want to tell you: ‘Pick me because I’m kind of like what you picked before, but not quite as crazy. But I don’t want to say his name’ because for these other pretenders he is, for those of you who read the Harry Potter books, like Voldemort. He is He Who Shall Not Be Named.”

Christie repeatedly accused Trump of narcissism, saying: “Well let me be clear, in case I have not been already: the person I am talking about, who is obsessed with the mirror, who never admits a mistake, who never admits a fault, and who always finds someone else and something else to blame for whatever goes wrong but finds every reason to take credit for anything that goes right, is Donald Trump.”

Christie endorsed Trump for the White House in 2016. Credit: Chris Christie via Storyful