Chris Christie barely qualified for Wednesday night’s debate stage, but he wasted no opportunity to alienate himself from a grassroots base of loyal Trump activists who filled the auditorium and loudly booed him when he suggested the former president won’t be able to vote on Election Day next year because he will be a “convicted felon.”
The former New Jersey governor and onetime Trump ally read studiously from notes while reciting his story time narrative of how President Donald Trump will eventually be convicted in one of his four criminal cases and as a result “have his right to vote taken away.” The insult drew a wall of catcalling that threatened to drown out the rest of Christie’s answer.
“I want you all to kind of picture in your minds Election Day. You’ll all be heading to the polls to vote, and that’s something that Donald Trump will not be able to do, because he will be convicted of felonies before then and his right to vote will be taken away,” Christie started before the audience turned on him.
“You know, look, here’s the bottom line,” he continued, trying to overcome their visceral reaction. “You can boo about it all you…
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