--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2966 og:image:height: 1668 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People on Twitter Were Worried About Chris Christie > Sponsored content. 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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=91558b91-8f25-4a9a-a439-51a21ea930f9&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Watch Donald Trump's Speech on Super Tuesday [Watch (HLS stream): Watch Donald Trump's Speech on Super Tuesday](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZKVzgu0K.m3u8) (1:11)  _Published 2016-03-02. RAW-Super Tuesday-Trump-v1_ 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 RAW-Super Tuesday-Trump-v1 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) ## Transcript [00:00] I am a unifier. Once we get all of this finished I'm [00:04] gonna go after one person, that's Hillary Clinton on the [00:06] assumption she's allowed to run. I watched Hillary's [00:09] speech and she's talking about wages have been poor, [00:12] and everything's poor, and everything's badly but [00:14] we're gonna make it. She's been there for so long. [00:16] [ LAUGH ] I mean, if she hasn't straightened it out by [00:19] now She's not gonna straighten it out in the next four [00:22] years. It's just gonna become worse and worse. She [00:24] wants to make America whole again and I'm trying to [00:27] figure out what is that all about. Make America great [00:30] again is gonna be much better than making America [00:32] whole again. They're declaring Marco Rubio the big [00:36] loser of the night, which is true. He didn't win anything. [00:39] He hasn't won anything period. And by the way, and I [00:41] have to tell, and he was very, very nasty. I've never [00:45] heard a person get up and speak on an evening like [00:47] this and be so nasty, but he's got a right to be nasty. [00:49] He hasn't won anything and he's not gonna win very [00:51] much. And I think, honestly, we've done something that [00:54] almost nobody thought could be done. And I'm very [00:57] proud of it. And I just want to leave you with this. I am [00:59] a unifier. I would love to see the Republican party [01:04] and everybody get together and unify. 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