Trump Blasts Christie Over 2020 Election Fraud Remarks

NEW JERSEY — Former President Donald Trump took a swing at former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie after he told a Jewish Republican audience last weekend to move away from the discussion about the 2020 Presidential Election.

Though Christie told the group at the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership Meeting, held in Las Vegas, that he was one of Trump’s first supporters among them and “line forms behind him” as the “first major office holder to endorse him in 2016,” he countered Trump’s focus on the 2020 Presidential Election outcome.

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“Winning campaigns are always the campaigns that look forward, not backwards,” Christie said. “We can no longer talk about the past and the past elections. No matter where you stand on that issue.”

Christie noted that the 2020 election was over.

Every minute we spend talking about 2020, while we’re wasting time doing that, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are laying ruin to this country,” he said. "We better focus on that and take our eyes off the rearview mirror and start looking through the windshield again.”

Christie told the audience their opponents have overreached and now it’s up to Republicans to create “a new vision,” quoting former President Barack Obama who said “election have consequences.” Christie told the audience on Saturday that the “only reason to affiliate with a political party is to win,” calling it “a new era” for the Republican Party.

Trump took aim back at Christie on his website Monday, saying Christie was “just absolutely massacred by his statements that Republicans have to move on from the past, meaning the 2020 Election Fraud.”

“Everybody remembers that Chris left New Jersey with less than a 9 percent approval rating - a record low, and they didn’t want to hear this from him,” Trump stated.

This isn’t the first time Christie has disagreed with Trump’s remarks about the 2020 Election. Christie re-tweeted a previous statement Trump made on his website about the topic on Oct. 13, when Trump said if the Presidential Election issue of 2020 - which he said has been “conclusively documented” - isn’t solved, “Republicans won’t vote in 2022 or 2024.”

“It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do,” Trump added.

For years I have worked with thousands of Republicans across this country to make sure people turned out & voted. Given what President Biden and the Democrats are trying to do to this country, Republicans will and must vote in big numbers in ‘22 & ‘24-no matter what anyone says. https://t.co/2i4VvRX27q
— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) October 14, 2021

“Given what President Biden and the Democrats are trying to do to this country, Republicans will and must vote in big numbers in ‘22 & ‘24 - no matter what anyone says,” Christie countered.

See Trump’s full remarks to the group in Las Vegas, which began about 1 hour and 28 minutes into the event, with Christie’s remarks at about 1 hr 55 minutes, in the video below:

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