Megyn Kelly confirms ‘pissed off’ Chris Christie confronted her during debate

Megyn Kelly confirmed what 2024 hopeful Chris Christie told her during a break at the fourth GOP debate on Thursday.

Kelly addressed a viral clip that captured Christie talking to her at the moderator table on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show. Christie used the first break to approach Kelly, “getting up in my grill,” according to the moderator.

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“There was also such a speculation about what was happening there. I will tell you what was happening there. It was not off the record. He was pissed off. He was mad that he wasn’t getting enough questions,” Kelly said. “And he said, ‘I made it up in this stage and I haven’t been able to speak in a while and you know I should’ve been brought in on that last debate.'”

Kelly admitted that the former New Jersey governor was excluded in the first 40 minutes of the debate to let the other candidates “fight,” but claimed she knew he was going to get the first question in the second hour. Since she had the foresight of the following question, Kelly claimed that as moderators they were being “totally fair to him.”

“He’s polling at 2%, OK? In no debate ever — I’ve now done six of them — have we given as many questions to the guy who’s at 3% as the person who’s in the lead at least amongst the candidates on the stage,” Kelly said. “I’m sorry Gov. Christie, that’s the way it is.”

The four candidates received roughly the same amount of speaking time throughout the two-hour debate. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had the most at 22 minutes, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy had 21 minutes, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley had 17 minutes, and Christie had over 16 minutes.

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“So he was a half — a half a minute behind Haley, who is tied up there for No. 1,” Kelly said of Christie’s speaking time. “So I don’t wanna hear it.”

Notably, the front-runner in the race, former President Donald Trump, was not present at the debate. The last time Kelly moderated a debate was when Trump was a candidate for president in 2016, and the two butted heads during the event.