Christie: Pressuring elected officials to overturn election results 'absolutely unacceptable'

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declined to say whether former President Donald Trump’s reported 2020 call to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey might be criminal, but maintained it was “unacceptable."

Trump called the Republican governor and prodded him to overturn the presidential election results after he lost to Joe Biden by a narrow margin in the battleground state, the Washington Post reported.

“We'll let the prosecutors decide whether it's criminal or not,” Christie said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

"But is it acceptable? It's absolutely unacceptable, to be pressuring a governor or any elected official as it was with the secretary of state in Georgia, to try to find votes to be able to win a state that you didn't win or to try to somehow come up with some kind of ridiculous theory to overturn the results in Arizona,” Christie added.

Trump is currently under multiple investigations for alleged attempts he and allies made to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. In Georgia, he could face an indictment after calling Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asking him to “find” enough votes to come out ahead of Biden in the state.

On Sunday, Christie said Trump lost the election in Arizona and other key state in 2020 because he “had not done the job the American people elected him to do.”