Chris Christie slams Haley’s reversal on abortion ban and trying ‘to be everything to everybody’

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticized fellow 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley for changing her position on abortion bans depending on the audience.

Christie took issue with “different candidates saying different things depending on what state they’re in,” speaking on Morning Joe on Tuesday.

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“So on the stage, you know, you had Gov. Haley talking about, ‘We don’t want to be divisive about abortion.’ Yet, then she goes to Iowa and sits across from Bob Vander Plaats last week and says she’d sign a six-week ban on abortion,” Christie said, noting he would not sign a national six-week ban on abortion.

Speaking at a forum last week for 2024 candidates hosted by the evangelical organization the Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats, Haley said if she was still governor of South Carolina, she would sign a six-week abortion ban if that is what the people decided.

Haley had previously committed to a federal abortion ban while not disclosing how many weeks it should encompass, often pointing out that the law is unlikely to pass without more Republicans in Congress. On the debate stage, Haley has called for more consensus on abortion, promoting adoption and more access to contraception while calling to not prosecute patients who get abortions.

“Now, that’s Gov. Haley’s position when she’s in front of Bob Vander Plaats. But it wasn’t when she was on the debate stage. You gotta be careful about these things because you don’t know what people are gonna do if they try to be everything to everybody,” Christie said.

The former New Jersey governor called out candidates in the race who are “pretending to run for president” and not against former President Donald Trump, who has held a roughly 30-point lead over his GOP primary opponents in some states.

He further called out Haley’s abortion stance on CNN on Tuesday, saying her support of a six-week national ban would hinder her electability.

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“I think it makes it much more difficult in a general election for her because you could see when Gov. DeSantis signed that bill in Florida, it certainly affected his popularity with the broader electorate,” Christie told CNN’s Phil Mattingly.

The Washington Examiner reached out to Haley’s team for comment.