Republican presidential heavyweight Chris Christie presented Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky with hand-written lyrics to the song ‘It’s My Life’ by recording artist Jon Bon Jovi during his recent, little-noticed trip to Kiev.
Speaking to CNN, the former New Jersey governor said Bon Jovi had written out the lyrics “in his own hand, got it framed, and I brought it to President Zelensky… and said that this is representative of many of the American people and what they feel about the cause that’s being fought for in Ukraine.”
The gesture seems somewhat questionable, considering lyrics in the song such as “This ain’t a song for the broken-hearted” and “I ain’t gonna live forever” will hit close to home for the tens if not hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian families who have lost loved ones in the conflict, which has now dragged for well over a year as a result of Joe Biden having “blocked” a ceasefire in its opening weeks.
Christie has become the de facto anti-Trump candidate in the GOP race, with the likes of Asa Hutchinson, perhaps equally anti-Trump, unable to take up this mantle due to the fact that few people even know who he is. The same applies to someone called Will Hurd.
Christie’s marginally greater name recognition has done him little good relative to Hutchinson, however, with both languishing on less than five percent in national polls.