NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Chris Christie slammed President Trump on Wednesday for prematurely declaring victory in the presidential race even as millions of votes were still being counted in multiple battleground states.
Early Wednesday morning, the president took the stage in the East Room and falsely claimed he had won the race.
"We will win this, and as far as I'm concerned, we already have won it," the president said at the White House.
In a tweet, Trump wrote, "we are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the election. We will never let them do it." Twitter added a label to the tweet: "Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process."
Trump vowed to take his case to the Supreme Court in an attempt to stop ballot counting.
As of Wednesday morning, neither Biden nor Trump had racked up the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the election.
Christie, who is an advisor to Trump, told ABC News: "I talk tonight not as a former governor, but as a former U.S. attorney. There's just no basis to make that argument tonight. There just isn't."
"All these votes have to be counted that are in now," the former New Jersey governor said. "The argument won't even start in Pennsylvania until tomorrow or Thursday or Friday, because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended for three days when you can accept ballots. Now I understand there could be an argument on that based on Pennsylvania law, but that argument's for later. Tonight this was not the time to make this argument."
"I disagree with what he did tonight," Christie added.
The former governor said he thought it was "a bad strategic decision" and "a bad political decision" by the president.
"There comes a point where you have to let the process play itself out before you judge it to have been flawed. And I think by prematurely doing this, if there is a flaw in it later, he has undercut his own credibility in calling attention to that flaw," Christie said.
