Chris Christie (R)
Chris Christie receives an overall grade of:C
Chris Christie receives a grade of N/A on the issue of Official English.
New Jersey is one of 19 states that does not have an official English law, and there has been no movement toward making English official under Christie’s tenure as governor. Chris Christie has not stated a position on whether or not he supports making English the official language of the federal government. After the dust up in 2015 between Trump and Bush over Bush’s decision to use Spanish on the campaign trail, Christie made an ambiguous statement in a September interview on Face the Nation. Christie stated “I think, first off, all of us should speak English. Since – I think it’ll help a lot in getting elected” but then added “anybody else who wants to do anything else, as far as I’m concerned it’s up to them to decide what they want to do.”
Chris Christie receives a grade of N/A on the issue of Bilingual Ballots.
In 2015, Chris Christie did veto a bill for automatic voter registration that would have made every government agency automatically register anyone using an agency-administered service. However, Christie has not issued a policy statement on the issue of bilingual ballots. US law regarding naturalization of new citizens mandates that they pass an English comprehension test and, therefore, any immigrant with legal citizenship status can read a ballot. The only candidate in 2016 who has a record of explicitly calling for ballots to be exclusively English is Rick Santorum, and that was in the previous Presidential cycle.
Chris Christie receives a grade of N/A on the issue of Amnesty.
In a 2010 interview, Chris Christie supported amnesty in the form of “a commonsense pathway to citizenship.” In 2008, while serving as US Attorney for New Jersey, Christie stated “Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime” in an exchange with a New Jersey Democratic mayor. In his 2016 Presidential Campaign, however, Christie opposes Obama’s executive order amnesties, supports tougher border security and universal workplace enforcement, and promises to cut funding for sanctuary cities. Now, in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary, Christie has attacked Rubio in the Washington Post for supporting amnesty with his Gang of Eight immigration reform that provides a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants after the border has been secured. Christie did not, however, call for making English the official language of the federal government.
Chris Christie receives a grade of N/A on the issue of Puerto Rican Statehood.
Chris Christie’s campaign has not issued a statement on the question of Puerto Rican statehood and the role of official English. Christie has made no campaign trips to the island.
Chris Christie receives a grade of N/A on the issue of English-in-the-workplace.
Chris Christie’s campaign has not issued an official policy position on the issue of the right of employers to require employees to speak English on the job for all things work-related, such as business transactions, customer interactions, company communications, and meetings.
Chris Christie receives a grade of 
on the issue of Multiculturalism & Assimilation.
Chris Christie is not known for soaring rhetoric of American Exceptionalism, but rather for his direct approach to problem-solving and steadfast refusal to submit to the canons of political correctness. In late 2015, Christie defied political correctness by advocating for a halt to the Obama administration’s admission of Syrian refugees on the grounds that FBI Director James Comey could not guarantee that they could be fully vetted. In a November 2015 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Christie stated “I will tell you, if something does happen, where American lives are lost, the American public should be relentlessly unforgiving to those who are responsible for doing the politically correct thing and not listening to the people who knew more than they did.”