60,000 New Jerseyans mercilessly booed Chris Christie at a racetrack

Chris Christie
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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah got plenty of cheers at Monmouth Park in New Jersey, as a crowd of more than 60,000 celebrated his latest triumph at the 2015 Haskell Invitational race. Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was on site to present the trophy in the winner's circle, received no such warm welcome.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.