--- title: Watch Bobby Jindal Take On Chris Christie description: Jindal cites record as governor, calls Christie a "big-government Republican" canonical: https://time.com/4107612/gop-debate-bobby-jindal-chris-christie/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-11T01:37:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:30:06.216Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Bobby Jindal Take On Chris Christie og:description: Jindal cites record as governor, calls Christie a "big-government Republican" og:url: https://time.com/4107612/gop-debate-bobby-jindal-chris-christie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cd82fdbbdab7d90/6988706cf887dcc674e933ee/gop-debate-bobby-jindal.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Fox Business And The Wall Street Journal Host Republican Primary Debate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Bobby Jindal Take On Chris Christie twitter:description: Jindal cites record as governor, calls Christie a "big-government Republican" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cd82fdbbdab7d90/6988706cf887dcc674e933ee/gop-debate-bobby-jindal.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Bobby Jindal Take On Chris Christie at Undercard Debate by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Nov 11, 2015 1:37 AM UTC  Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a Republican presidential candidate debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a Republican presidential candidate debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015.Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg- Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Nov 11, 2015 1:37 AM UTC Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took advantage of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presence in the second tier Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, going on the offensive and branding him a “big government Republican.” In an exchange between the two candidates at the undercard debate, Jindal took Christie on about his economic record, comparing budget decreases in Louisiana to budget increases in New Jersey. Records matter, Jindal argued. “My point is this,” he said. “If politicians say they’re going to be conservative, say they’re going to cut spending, but they don’t do it, why should we send them to D.C.? It gets harder, not easier when we send them to D.C. … Let’s not just beat Hillary, let’s elect a conservative to the White House.” Christie, who succeeded Jindal as chairman of the Republican Governors’ Association in 2014, fired back arguing that he had won two elections in a state with a Democratic majority. “If you go to New Jersey, they’ll call me lots of different things. A liberal is not one of them,” said Christie. “That’s the person you want on the stage prosecuting the case against Hillary Clinton.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4107612/gop-debate-bobby-jindal-chris-christie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4107612/gop-debate-bobby-jindal-chris-christie/"},"headline":"Watch Bobby Jindal Take On Chris Christie at Undercard Debate","datePublished":"2015-11-11T01:37:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:30:06.216Z","description":"Jindal cites record as governor, calls Christie a \"big-government Republican\"","url":"https://time.com/4107612/gop-debate-bobby-jindal-chris-christie/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","debate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cd82fdbbdab7d90/6988706cf887dcc674e933ee/gop-debate-bobby-jindal.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/blt0cd82fdbbdab7d90/6988706cf887dcc674e933ee/gop-debate-bobby-jindal.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fox Business And The Wall Street Journal Host Republican Primary Debate","caption":"Fox Business And The Wall Street Journal Host Republican Primary Debate","creditText":"Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg- Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4107612/gop-debate-bobby-jindal-chris-christie/","name":"Watch Bobby Jindal Take On Chris Christie at Undercard Debate"}}]}] ```