Governor Chris Christie voted at the Emergency Services Building on Cherry Lane in Mendham earlier this morning, Save Jerseyans, and vehemently denied any connection between tonight’s result in the race to succeed him and his own legacy as New Jersey’s chief executive.
“This is not an election about me not matter what,” Christie told assembled reporters:
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Christie said he voted for @KimGuadagnoNJ, and that he doesn’t think 2017 is a referendum on his tenure pic.twitter.com/aBMOPMYVWq
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) November 7, 2017
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Whether he believes that is questionable.
Christie had an unusual one-on-one with an NJ.com reporters on Election Eve in which he slammed former Governor Tom Kean, Sr., his former political mentor, in an apparent attempt to defend his own fiscal record. The pair had experienced a fall out beginning in the immediate aftermath of Christie’s 2013 reelection; most recently, Christie criticized the notion that Kean’s 1980s audit of state government, now backed by Kim Guadagno, would have any impact on the state budget.
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