Cristie at the end of the day is a grifter he wants position and power just like all the other no shot candidates
He is definitely gonna nuke desantis because he knows that attacking trump is just going to coalesce that side against him whereas scalping desantis will bleed from his dwindling support and add to his own never trump faction
All of this is about who will be gracious and eventually bow out of the primary since polling has shown that none of these people have a shot outside of iowa and NH
What are you gonna do when Desantis or Tim Scott has to face their terrible polling everywhere else
Its about jockeying for cabinet and power positions in the trump administration
These debates are just side shows which is why Trump skipped them. He has the momentum and clout to basically ignore mainstream media now which spells doom for all his rivals who need to be on the debate stage and get his media bubble aura