Bridgegate: A Refresher On The Scandal That Has Haunted Chris Christie
The traffic jam fiasco remains a problem for the New Jersey governor as indictments appear to be imminent.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks about his knowledge of a traffic study that snarled traffic at the George Washington Bridge during a news conference on January 9, 2014 at the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey.
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When Chris Christie won reelection in 2013 with a crushing 60 percent of the vote in Democrat-leaning New Jersey, online political betters were practically measuring the drapes for the Republican governor in the White House.
Two months later, "Bridgegate" broke, and the New Jersey governor has watched his poll numbers gradually erode under a cloud of scandal as the authorities investigated. That moment has finally arrived as the first wave of criminal charges appear to be imminent.