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ABC News anchor David Muir clashed with former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) after Christie tied the 2000 election to former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The exchange happened on Tuesday, when Muir noted that Republicans are running campaigns on claims of a “faulty election” and the Texas GOP rejected President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020.
Christie made the case that there is a “disturbing trend and pattern that’s been increasing in intensity from 2000 to 2016 to now to 2020.”
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Muir said he understood what Christie was saying but stressed, “I just don’t want our audience to think that I’m not aware that there isn’t a real equivalency here when you have a former president here who is sowing the seeds of doubt in this particular election that we’re looking at.” He then moved on with the discussion.
Earlier, Christie, who is a contributor for ABC News, argued, “This goes all the way back to 2000,” when George W. Bush won the presidential election over then-Vice President Al Gore. The Democrat conceded following weeks of legal battles over recount efforts in Florida.
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He said supporters of Gore refused to accept Bush as the legitimate president, even after Gore conceded and oversaw the certification of his rival’s win. He then brought up Hillary Clinton, who, after her 2016 election loss to Trump, cast doubt on the legitimacy of that contest’s results.
“This is a very dangerous thing in this country,” Christie said, adding that it was “brought to a new level in 2020 by Donald Trump and his campaign.”
