Former New Jersey Gov Chris Christie broke sharply with Donald Trump on Sunday as the dispute in the Republican Party continues over whether or not the party as a whole accepts Mr Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election.
Mr Christie spoke on ABC’s This Week, where he became the second former top ally of Mr Trump to refute his repeated, continued assertion that Mike Pence had the authority as vice president to refuse the certification of Electoral College ballots from states where the Trump campaign had baselessly alleged wide-scale fraud. The first to battle that view was Mr Pence himself, who spoke at a gathering of the Federalist Society last week.
