Former New Jersey governor and two-time unsuccessful presidential candidate Chris Christie is set to teach a college class on running for office this fall.
The weekly seminar taught by Christie is titled “How to Run a Political Campaign” and is open to undergraduates as well as graduate students at Yale, the Associated Press reported.
According to the course description, the class will focus on key campaign aspects such as communication, fundraising, “and the most important question of all: If I do win, what do I want to accomplish and what kind of leader do I want to be?”
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Christie, 61, served as governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 and was the U.S. attorney for New Jersey from 2002 to 2008.
Once viewed as a rising star in the Republican Party, Christie launched his first of two unsuccessful White House bids in 2016. After suspending his campaign following the New Hampshire primary, Christie became the first presidential candidate to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump.
He went on to serve as the head of Trump’s presidential transition team.
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Christie has since become a massive critic of the former president, however. The former governor based his entire, ill-fated 2024 campaign on his opposition to Trump, though he ultimately dropped out without realizing any electoral success.
The former governor’s Yale seminar follows a talk in April in which he claimed America’s political leaders have abandoned “the truth.”
“Leaders in our political system have abandoned the truth because it’s hard,” he said. “It’s what we’re seeing on both sides of the aisle and, to me, that’s not what leadership is supposed to be about.”
