Chris Christie launched his run for president in a crowded New Jersey high school gym Tuesday with a slogan of "telling it like it is."
Christie, 52, joins a long list of Republicans vying for the GOP nomination, led in the polls by Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.
"This country need to work together again, not against each other," Christie told supporters, promising to bring back bipartisanship to Washington. Christie said "both parties have failed our country" by making compromise "a dirty word."
He said New Jersey was "in a state in economic calamity" when he took over as governor, but "we rolled up our sleeve and went to work."
"I have spent the past 13 years as the U.S. attorney and governor of this state fighting for justice and opportunity for the people of this state and I am now ready to fight for the people of the United States of America.
President Obama, whose approval rating rose to 50% in a poll this week for the first time since May 2013, "lives in his own world, not in our world," Christie said. The dig against Obama is important for Christie considering his embrace of the Democrat -- literally -- during the 2012 campaign against Mitt Romney.
He referred to Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton as Obama's "second mate."
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