New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who will not be on the main stage at next week’s Fox Business Channel Republican presidential debate, said he would welcome a series of one-on-one exchanges with his competitors.

“Any time, anywhere,” he said during an appearance on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “You want to put me one-and-one with Marco Rubio, one-on-one with Jeb Bush, one-on-one with Donald Trump, one-on-one with Ted Cruz, I think that’s what this country needs to hear. You need to hear from us. Take the measure of our character and the measure of the quality of our ideas.”

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As it is, Christie’s performance in national polls was not high enough to meet the threshold for Tuesday’s encounter. He instead will join the “junior varsity” stage, along with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who also missed the cut.

Christie is making the best of it.

“I’m not a whiner about the rules,” he said. “I’m gonna show up on Tuesday night, and I’m going to debate whoever they put on the stage with me… I’ll show up wherever I’m told to show up on Tuesday night, and I will debate, and I will make an impression.”

Christie has not reviewed the thousands of pages of the recently released Trans-Pacific Partnership, but he said Friday that he doesn’t need to see the details to advise congressional Republicans: “Vote no.”

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Christie said he opposes the 12-nation pact because President Obama cannot be trusted.

“Why would anyone in America trust the person who negotiated the deal with Iran to negotiate a trade deal that in balance will hold the economic future of many American citizens?” he asked. “The fact is that this president can’t negotiate a thing. And the Iranian deal is already a disaster.”

The vast majority of Republicans in Congress voted to give Obama “fast track” authority to negotiate the deal, which lawmakers cannot amend. Congress must either accept or reject the deal in its entirety.

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“Vote no, or don’t vote at all, and wait for a new president to come in to negotiate a deal that would actually be in the interests of the American people and the interests American workers,” Christie said.

Some Democrats have seized on Christie’s percent comments on addiction — that he is pro-life at all stages of life, not just in the womb — as an endorsement of cradle-to-grave government spending. Christie called it a “complete liberal misinterpretation of what I’m saying.”

Christie said his point was that the criminal justice system should focus more on treating addicts — which is cheaper — than incarcerating them. That is what New Jersey has done with great success, he said.

But Christie rejected the notion that marijuana should be legalized.

“I’ve been the most outspoken person in this race on this issue,” he said. “I don’t know about you, Laura, but it was tough enough for me to learn algebra and physics when I was straight, let alone if I was going into school high. So I am completely, 100 percent, opposed to drug legalization.”