Getty Pro-Christie group launches TV ad in New Hampshire Governor assails Iran deal in new spot

A super PAC that supports Governor Chris Christie’s presidential bid released its first television advertisement on Monday, targeting New Hampshire voters with a clip of the Republican criticizing President Obama’s tentative nuclear deal with Iran.

America Leads, the group Christie used to explore his presidential run, calls the 30-second spot “Glide Path” and says it is drawn from footage of a town-hall style meeting the candidate held last month in Sandown, N.H. In it, Christie declares that “this is a dangerous, dangerous world right now.”


“This president is allowing Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, to have a glide path towards a nuclear weapon,” Christie says. “A strong American military is not built to wage war; it is built to prevent war.

“I’m the only candidate who has actually been responsible for fighting terrorism and has prosecuted terrorists and put them in jail and if I become president we are going to protect the homeland, not lower our defenses against it.”

Before his election as governor in 2009, Christie was the United States attorney for New Jersey. It’s a resume item he has used others times on the campaign trail and in television interviews since declaring his candidacy, at times noting he’s the only candidate who has used the Patriot Act.

While Christie is in South Carolina on Monday and plans a trip to Iowa later this week, most of his energy has been focused on winning New Hampshire. His campaign has been running its own TV spot there for 10 days, and the governor has been a regular visitor.

Taking the Granite State may be Christie's only chance of turning around his longshot campaign. Christie has lagged behind most other major candidates and is at risk of not being allowed into the Fox News debate later this year. Only 10 candidates will be invited to that debate based on polling data.

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