NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Former New Jersey governor and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie is teaching a course on running for office this semester at Yale University.
The weekly seminar Christie teaches is titled “How to Run a Political Campaign” and is open to both undergraduate and graduate students at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
The course description says it will explore issues such as communications, fundraising and the most important question of all: if I win, what do I want to achieve and what kind of leader do I want to be?
Christie, 61, served as governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 and as New Jersey’s attorney general from 2002 to 2008.
He sought the Republican nomination for president in 2016, but dropped out of the race and supported Donald Trump.
Christie helped Trump prepare for the 2020 debate but later broke with Trump and refused to support his claims of a stolen election.
Christie campaigned again for the presidential nomination in 2024, but dropped out in January, just before the Iowa caucuses.
His Yale seminar follows a lecture in april in which Christie told the audience that the truth matters.
“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 I don’t think that’s what leadership should be about.”