Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued that election challenges are becoming “very, very dangerous.”
Christie, a long time ally of President Trump despite breaking with him on unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud, has publicly denounced many aspects of the president’s attacks on his election loss. His latest rebuke of the continued challenges, which include House Republicans’ plan to challenge the Electoral College vote tally on Jan. 6 in front of both chambers of Congress, took place during an interview with Fox News’s Martha McCallum on Tuesday.
“I’m as disappointed as anybody that the president was not reelected in November, but the fact is Joe Biden won the majority of the electoral votes, he had 306, and I think this is a very, very dangerous thing that we are engaging in right now,” he said.
Christie’s comments came moments after Reps. Mo Brooks of Alabama and Jody Hice of Georgia were also interviewed by McCallum. Both Republican congressmen have announced their intention to object to the Electoral College vote. They are among a larger group of Republicans who met with the president this week to discuss their plan.
The failed 2016 Republican presidential candidate rebuked members of the president’s campaign and legal team for their continued promotion of election lawsuits filed in battleground states President-elect Joe Biden won. Those suits have overwhelmingly been thrown out in court.
“These affidavits have been submitted to the courts in opposition to the motions to dismiss those cases that were filed by the opposition in the courts regardless of Republican or democratic judges,” Christie said. “They have been routinely kicked out. The fact is that we haven’t seen any of these things. We’ve had promises from Sidney Powell and other members of the president’s legal team for blockbuster evidence, and none of it has come forward.”
Christie, who recently left the door open to a possible 2024 presidential run, reiterated his rebuke of Sidney Powell and Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn for their role in promoting conspiracy theories and for urging Trump to continue to contest the election. Flynn has publicly suggested Trump use martial law to send the military into battleground states to demand a second vote.
In the interview with MacCallum, Brooks said he had not been aware of any talk of martial law.
