Chris Christie began publicly criticizing Lake in 2022 with a tweet reacting to claims that Lake, a former TV news anchor, was lying about who she is.
Allie Feinberg
Arizona Republic
Chris Christie, a longshot candidate in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is a critic of Arizona’s Kari Lake and a one-time ally of the late Sen. John McCain.
Christie, who was governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018, once championed the causes of former President Donald Trump alongside Lake, a Republican who lost her 2022 bid for Arizona governor but who may run for the Senate next year. Christie said the end of his Trump alliance was when the former president said his 2020 election loss was fake.
“The red line was election night,” Christie told
CNN’s David Axelrod. “… Standing behind the seal of the president and saying the election was stolen, and then offering not one piece of evidence to support that.”
Lake continues to perpetuate those claims. On June 1, she and a group called the Truth Bombers released a song about alleged election fraud titled “81 Million Votes, My A–.”
Christie began publicly criticizing Lake in 2022 with a tweet reacting to claims that Lake, a former TV news anchor, was lying about who she is.
“You just can’t believe anything Kari Lake says,” he wrote on Twitter.
