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The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC were out in full force on Tuesday night following New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential announcement to attack Christie over his temper and use the Bridgegate scandal to argue that it’s “fed his image as bully” leading to “a long road ahead” for the nomination.
Covering the story for the CBS Evening News, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes invoked Bridgegate just over halfway into her report, but promoted it as having “fed his image as a bully” before playing an undated soundbite of Christie engaging with a heckler in which he told the man shouting to “sit down and shut up.”