Chris Christie turns against Trump, says he should accept US election results
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has been a Donald Trump ally from the get-go, has turned against the outgoing president, saying he should accept the election results.
In an interview with ABC News, the GOP politician called the Trump campaign’s legal team “a national embarrassment,” for failing to present evidence of fraud in the November election.
"I've been a supporter of the president. I voted for him twice. But elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn't happen," he said. "You have an obligation to present the evidence. The evidence has not been presented."
Former national security adviser John Bolton , a top Republican, also called on his party to take action in the face of Trump’s refusal to concede defeat.
“The Republican Party is not going to be saved by hiding in a spider hole,” Bolton told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We need all of our leaders to come out and say, 'The election is over.' We're not talking about an abstract right for Trump to use his legal remedies. We've passed that… The more who come out and say, ‘He doesn’t represent us. He is not following a Republican game plan here,’ the safer they will be.”
‘US a banana republic’
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan was another Republican to call on his colleagues to come forward and “speak up” as the lame-duck president refuses to allow Biden to have a smooth transition into the White House.
“We were the most respected country with respect to elections,” Hogan said. “And now we’re beginning to look like we’re a banana republic. It’s time for them to stop the nonsense. It just gets more bizarre every single day.”
Michigan Republican Representative Fred Upton also called for the transition process to “move forward” despite Trump’s refusal to recognize former Vice President Joe Biden as the president-elect.
“I mean, here in Michigan, it was a 154,000-vote margin by President-elect Biden, and no one has come up with any evidence of fraud or abuse,” he said. “We expect that that process move forward and let the voters, not the politicians, speak.”
Trump has filed several lawsuit in battleground states in the hope of overturning the election result but to no avail so far.
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