Loyal supporters urge Trump to accept defeat in the US election
A staunch ally of Donald Trump has urged the President to give up his bid to reject the outcome of the US election that won Joe Biden.
According to the BBC, Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called the president's legal team a "national disgrace".
Earlier it was reported that President Trump had refused to recognize the presidential election, making baseless claims about widespread election fraud.
Many Republicans have supported his legal remedies. However, a small number of Republican members opposed the action.
On Saturday, Trump suffered a major blow in Pennsylvania after a judge dismissed a suit by a Trump campaign team seeking to overturn the millions of ballots that had entered the battlefield state.
In his ruling, Judge Matthew Brann said the court had been faced with "tense legal arguments without grounds and speculative charges".
The decision paved the way for Pennsylvania to certify Biden's victory on Monday, with the Democratic president-elect leading by more than 80,000 votes.
Speaking to ABC's This Week program on Sunday, Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, said: "Frankly, the behavior of the president's legal team is nationally embarrassing."
He said the Trump camp often discusses election fraud "outside the courtroom, but when they walk into the courtroom, they don't confess to fraud and they don't deny fraud".
"I've been a supporter of the president. I voted for him twice. But elections have consequences, and we can't continue to act as if something that happened here didn't happen."
Christie was the first governor to support Trump as a presidential candidate in 2016. He also helped prepare the US president for his debate with Biden earlier this year.
He even chose to criticize Sidney Powell, a lawyer who appeared with Trump's legal team during a press conference on Thursday who, without providing evidence, said that the electronic voting system diverted millions of ballots to Biden, and that he also won thanks to "communist money. . "
But on Sunday, the Trump campaign team issued a statement saying Powell was issuing a personal opinion, not a member of Trump's legal team.
However, a tweet from President Trump earlier this month explicitly identified him as part of the team.
On Sunday, other Republicans also urged President Trump to surrender.
