Why did Chris Christie's name come up during Trump jury selection?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Christie was among the first mainstream Republicans to get behind Trump in 2016 after Christie's first failed presidential bid.
39% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged effort to keep salacious -- and, he says, bogus -- stories about his sex life from emerging during his 2016 campaign.
37% : On Monday, Trump called the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg a "scam" and "witch hunt.
36% : Christie campaigned hard against Trump in New Hampshire in the Republican primary.
32% : But Trump has previously said it had nothing to do with the campaign.
31% : Trump has denied the sexual encounter ever happened.
24% : He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep porn actor Stormy Daniels from going public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier.
23% : Trump has acknowledged reimbursing Cohen for the payment and that it was designed to stop Daniels from going public about the alleged encounter.
15% : Prosecutors have described it as part of a scheme to bury damaging stories Trump feared could help his opponent in the 2016 race, particularly as Trump's reputation was suffering at the time from comments he had made about women.
14% : He was close with the former president for the four years Trump was in the White House, but split with him after Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election.

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