{"id":759,"date":"2015-04-15T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2015-04-15T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T00:33:52","slug":"nbc-news-exclusive-gov-christie-tells-matt-lauer-hillary-clinton-has-to-earn-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2015\/04\/15\/nbc-news-exclusive-gov-christie-tells-matt-lauer-hillary-clinton-has-to-earn-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: GOV. CHRISTIE TELLS MATT LAUER HILLARY CLINTON HAS TO \u201cEARN NOMINATION\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Gov. Christie: \u201cNobody is handed these things&#8230;You\u2019ve got to earn it.\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Interview To Air Tomorrow, Thursday, April 16 on TODAY<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p>APRIL 15, 2015 &#8212; In an NBC News exclusive, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tells Matt Lauer that Hillary Clinton will &#8220;have to earn the nomination\u201d from the Democratic party.\u00a0 Speaking in his first national interview since Clinton launched her 2016 campaign, Christie says Clinton\u2019s 2008 campaign shows nothing is a &#8220;foregone conclusion.&#8221;\u00a0 The interview airs tomorrow, Thursday, April 16 on NBC News&#8217; TODAY.<\/p>\n<p>Christie tells Lauer he does not know if he will run in the 2016 presidential election saying that he&#8217;s \u201cbeen the frontrunner before\u201d and it\u2019s \u201ca place where the bullseye\u2019s on your back and everybody is shooting at you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A portion of Lauer\u2019s interview aired tonight on \u201cNBC Nightly News.&#8221; A link to the embeddable video is available here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1DklBqj\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1DklBqj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If used, the video is subject to the following restrictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandatory credit to NBC News on first reference.<\/li>\n<li>The onscreen \u201cNBC News Exclusive\u201d credit must be clearly visible and unobstructed at all times in any image, video clip, or other form of media.<\/li>\n<li>Embedded web video must stream from the NBCNews.com media player with the unobstructed credit as described above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Excerpts from the interview follow. If used, please credit NBC News&#8217; TODAY with air date of Thursday, April 16.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p><strong>GOV. CHRISTIE ON HILLARY CLINTON: \u201cNOBODY IS HANDED THESE THINGS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MATT LAUER: She&#8217;s a forgone conclusion it seems on the Democratic side. You agree to that?<\/p>\n<p>GOV. CHRISTIE: She was a forgone conclusion in 2007, Matt. So was Rudy Giuliani, a forgone conclusion in 2007. You know we&#8217;ve had lots of forgone conclusions in American politics.<\/p>\n<p>MATT LAUER: So who do you think you see on the horizon on the Democratic side that could jump up and derail Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s run?<\/p>\n<p>GOV. CHRISTIE: I don&#8217;t know. Barack Obama was down by 30 points at this time in 2007 to Hillary Clinton. So I don&#8217;t know. Again it&#8217;s about performance Matt. The President of the United States, agree with him or disagree with him, has twice performed pretty well as a candidate. He performed very well against Secretary Clinton before she was Secretary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, so I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen on the Democratic side, Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s going to have to perform so she&#8217;s going to have to earn the nomination. Nobody is handed these things. This is the nomination for President of the United States you\u2019ve got to earn it. You\u2019ve got to earn it and you\u2019ve got to perform. People are tough on us. As well as they should be. if you&#8217;re going to be president.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p><strong>GOV. CHRISTIE ON A POTENTIAL 2016 BID: \u201cI DON\u2019T KNOW\u201d IF MOMENT HAS PASSED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MATT LAUER: There was a time where, when people talked about 2016, all of the buzz on the Republican side was about you. Is it possible that while you were dealing, and I don\u2019t want to call them distractions because that makes them sound trivial, with these serious issues of Bridgegate back in New Jersey, that your moment passed?<\/p>\n<p>GOV. CHRISTIE: I don&#8217;t know and neither do you. We&#8217;ll see. But I tell you this much, I&#8217;ve been the frontrunner before. It&#8217;s a place where the bullseye\u2019s on your back and everybody is shooting at you. So that&#8217;s ok. I&#8217;m fine with exactly where I am right now because I haven&#8217;t changed. And when we start to talk, if we run, about really serious issues that face this country, I have an opportunity to be able to convince people the same way I would have had to convince them otherwise, Matt, because all of that is artificial until the game really begins and the game hasn&#8217;t even come close to beginning.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information contact<\/strong>:<br \/>\nMaggie Steenland<br \/>\nNBC News<br \/>\n212-664-7874<a href=\"mailto:meghan.pianta@nbcuni.com\"><br \/>\nmaggie.steenland@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT NBC NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBC News is a global leader in news across all broadcast and digital platforms. Its leading and award-winning television news broadcasts include NBC Nightly News, TODAY, Meet the Press and Dateline, as well as primetime specials and breaking news reports. The rapidly-growing NBC News Digital Group, along with the well-established NBC News Radio with 750 stations nationwide, provide continuous content to consumers wherever they are, whenever they want it. NBC News also operates Peacock Productions, an award-winning in-house production company, and the NBC NewsChannel affiliate news service. NBC News is part of the NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News is a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world\u2019s leading media and entertainment companies. For more corporate information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.com\">www.nbcuniversal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Christie: \u201cNobody is handed these things&#8230;You\u2019ve got to earn it.\u201d Interview To Air Tomorrow, Thursday, April 16 on TODAY APRIL 15, 2015 &#8212; In an NBC News exclusive, New Jersey Gov. 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