--- title: Super Tuesday: Twitter Had A Field Day Over Chris Christie description: Christie stood behind Donald Trump rather awkwardly at a press conference. canonical: https://time.com/4244162/chris-christie-twitter-trump-super-tuesday/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-02T03:50:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T17:10:03.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: People on Twitter Were Worried About Chris Christie og:description: After he stood awkwardly behind Trump at his victory speech. og:url: https://time.com/4244162/chris-christie-twitter-trump-super-tuesday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19eb06ff785b65b7/69887fe4cf40a8005bc423b9/timepol-election-2016-chris-christie-donald-trump-primary.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican U.S. presidential candidate Trump with former rival candidate Christie at his side speaks about the results of Super Tuesday primary and caucus voting during a news conference in Palm Beach og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People on Twitter Were Worried About Chris Christie twitter:description: After he stood awkwardly behind Trump at his victory speech. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19eb06ff785b65b7/69887fe4cf40a8005bc423b9/timepol-election-2016-chris-christie-donald-trump-primary.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People on Twitter Were Worried About Chris Christie by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:10 PM UTCPublished: Mar 2, 2016 3:50 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at his side, speaks about the results of Super Tuesday voting during a news conference in Palm Beach, Fla. on March 1, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at his side, speaks about the results of Super Tuesday voting during a news conference in Palm Beach, Fla. on March 1, 2016.Scott Audette—Reuters by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:10 PM UTCPublished: Mar 2, 2016 3:50 AM UTC Chris Christie won the Twitter primary on Super Tuesday. After the New Jersey Governor and former presidential candidate gave a somewhat flat-sounding introduction to front-runner Donald Trump, Twitter users could not stop talking about Christie. In a wide-ranging speech-slash-press-conference, Trump even mentioned Christie twice, once joking about people moving out of New Jersey and once calling him the exception after saying that politicians don’t keep their promises. But it was Christie’s expressions and body language that got attention, causing #freeChrisChristie to trend on Twitter, according to search firm Dataminr. Here are some representative tweets. > [](https://twitter.com/thecultureofme/status/704860963854536705) > [](https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/704860401754722304) > [](https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/704860875606388737) > [](https://twitter.com/gilbertjasono/status/704859598092689409) > [](https://twitter.com/TheRyanParker/status/704861011329753088) > [](https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/704861737737199616) > [](https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/704861884500066304) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4244162/chris-christie-twitter-trump-super-tuesday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4244162/chris-christie-twitter-trump-super-tuesday/"},"headline":"People on Twitter Were Worried About Chris Christie","datePublished":"2016-03-02T03:50:29.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T17:10:03.000Z","description":"Christie stood behind Donald Trump rather awkwardly at a press conference.","url":"https://time.com/4244162/chris-christie-twitter-trump-super-tuesday/","keywords":["Super Tuesday","Social Media","2016 Election topic","Chris Christie","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19eb06ff785b65b7/69887fe4cf40a8005bc423b9/timepol-election-2016-chris-christie-donald-trump-primary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19eb06ff785b65b7/69887fe4cf40a8005bc423b9/timepol-election-2016-chris-christie-donald-trump-primary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican U.S. presidential candidate Trump with former rival candidate Christie at his side speaks about the results of Super Tuesday primary and caucus voting during a news conference in Palm Beach","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with New Jersey Gov. 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