Chris Christie is in full on damage-control mode after getting called out at the debate last night in S.C. and by fact-checkers today over his past support for Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, an alleged donation to Planned Parenthood and his record on guns while governor of N.J.
First up, Sotomayor, who Christie supported for SCOTUS in a press release from his office in 2009.
Christie flat out lied when he denied supporting Sotomayor for the Supreme Court in last night's debate; there's… https://t.co/0t0gcgjTB1
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) January 15, 2016
Did Christie support Sotomayor's confirmation? Depends on meaning of 'I support her confirmation,' apparently https://t.co/rM4m8F5iVQ
— Robert Barnes (@scotusreporter) January 15, 2016
For clarity's sake, here's Christie statement from 2009 on Sotomayor https://t.co/7pvaSjYvgd pic.twitter.com/2T5Rcz7VMW
— Michael Symons (@MichaelSymons_) January 15, 2016
Christie says that doesn’t count as real support:
Christie has firmly denied he ever backed President Obama’s nomination of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. “I didn’t voice support for Sonia Sotomayor,” he told CBS’ Face the Nation last weekend. He repeated that during Thursday night’s debate on Fox Business Network. “Let’s set the facts straight. First of all, I never supported Sonia Sotomayor.”
On Friday morning, he was again saying he never backed Sotomayor. “What I said about Sonia Sotomayor was that she deserved an up or down vote, but that she was not the type of Justice I would select if I were President. That’s hardly supporting someone, that’s just saying someone should get an up or down note,” he told MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
And Marco Rubio has been hitting Christie all day long, using his own words against him:
Second straight event @marcorubio has paused to read, word for word, @ChrisChristie's 2009 Sotomayor quote
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) January 15, 2016
In which @marcorubio literally pulls out @ChrisChristie's pro-Sotomayor quote out of his pocket. https://t.co/ltBlngEtk9
— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) January 15, 2016
Christie is also getting challenged on a 1994 Newark Star-Ledger article that reported he made a personal donation to Planned Parenthood. He now says he was misquoted in the article.
The reporter who allegedly misquoted Christie back in 1994, however, is now Christie’s spokesman:
so Christie says this whole PP flap is because he was misquoted. by the guy who's now his spokesman. https://t.co/7sarMybIbY @JordynPhelps
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 12, 2016
Oh and in case you were keeping track, it took Christie nearly 3 days to come up with the excuse that he was misquoted in 1994.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 12, 2016
It seems even more unlikely that if Christie was so grossly misquoted, he wouldn't have requested a correction.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 12, 2016
In conclusion, Christie thinks he's a good enough liar to rewrite his entire political history for his campaign.
He's not.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 12, 2016
And Chris Christie’s past support for gun control is coming back to haunt him, too:
Christie's 1995 campaign literature, supporting gun control: https://t.co/DQZP6Zwde3 pic.twitter.com/L2Vdp2qNiw
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 15, 2016
Here's Christie's 1993 gun statement he 'didn't remember' in the Fox-TV interview https://t.co/mtwMZgxYZt
— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) January 15, 2016
So Christie is against AWB now? He also once cited population in discussing gun control. Ask him to clarify. #GOPdebate
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 15, 2016
With Christie once “bragging” that he got into politics in the first place because of Republicans attempting to repeal the assault weapons ban:
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/687829455889428480
Based on his well-circulated campaign lit 2 years later, it does sound like him https://t.co/mC7Fea5dOA pic.twitter.com/pRQMR0IaQa
— Matt Friedman (@MattFriedmanNJ) November 25, 2015
Christie hit back this morning, targeting Marco Rubio specifically:
.@ChrisChristie on @marcorubio: The person taking shots at me can't even look at me in the eye #MJinIowa https://t.co/wOLlP4D6Xh
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) January 15, 2016
And he noted that even though there’s a disagreement over the 1994 article, Planned Parenthood is no fan:
As Governor, I’ve vetoed funding to Planned Parenthood every single year in office pic.twitter.com/NyOwNg9ok1
— Chris Christie (@ChrisChristie) January 15, 2016
He also pointed out that the NRA said nice things about him in the past, too:
#GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/DlM7pV2oeo
— Chris Christie (@ChrisChristie) January 15, 2016
Nice try governor, but no:
Oh come on, Christie. You were a huge gun control advocate until last week.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 15, 2016
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