'Makes him a martyr': Trump's biggest GOP foe blasts Maine for throwing him off the ballot

Donald Trump’s biggest Republican foe unleashed an attack on the states that have kicked him off the ballot Friday, hitting them for strengthening the former president's “martyr” message.

Chris Christie was speaking just hours after Maine became the second state to rule that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment made Trump ineligible for public office.

Former New Jersey Gov. Christie, who polls show is trailing way behind Trump in his effort to become his party’s presidential nominee, said the ruling in Maine and the similar one in Colorado last week served just to strengthen Trump’s message that he’s a victim.

“It makes him a martyr,” he said on CNN.

“He's very good at playing poor me, poor me. He's always complaining, the poor billionaire from New Nork, who is spending everybody else's money to pay his legal fees. Poor me.”

Christie added that the only way Trump should be brought down is by letting him go to the polls.

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“When this happens, this should be decided by the voters of the United States. It should not be decided by courts. And the fact is, while there may be — people may think there's a justification for doing this — it's not good in our democracy,” he said.

"In the end, Donald Trump should be defeated by the voters at the polls and defeated by someone like me, who is willing to tell the truth about him. That's the way we defeat him and we end the scourge of Donald Trump in our party and our country.”

Christie then went on to attack Trump’s hateful message that was sent on Christmas day.

“We don't need someone who sends out a Christmas message, who says anyone who disagrees with him should rot in hell. That's what he said, after his Thanksgiving message, where he said he was thankful for all of the people he hated.

"This is not the kind of person we need behind the desk in the Oval Office. Someone who hates, someone who tells people to rot in hell."

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