2024-01-10 22:03:00
Chris Christie abandoned the race for the presidential candidacy for the White House this Wednesday with an announcement during a town hall in New Hampshire, hours before two of his rivals, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, clash in the fifth Republican presidential debate.
“Tonight it is clear to me that there is no path to winning the nomination,” Christie told voters gathered at the caucus. “That’s why I’m suspending my campaign for president of the United States.”
“I want to promise you this: I will make sure that in no way will Donald Trump be allowed to be president of the United States once more. And that is more important than my own personal ambition.”
The announcement comes just days before the state caucuses, which mark the start of the presidential primaries.
Does Christie’s departure benefit Haley?
Christie was under intense pressure to drop out of the race as Donald Trump’s critics work to unite behind a viable Republican alternative to the former president.
Those who have been asking Christie to withdraw estimate that this would help Haley rally the moderate conservative vote in a way that can give more weight to Trump, following DeSantis’ candidacy lost the steam with which it began, when he I thought it was the conservative option for the controversial former president.
However, according to NBC News sources, Christie is not expected to make any endorsement pending the results of the Iowa caucuses next Monday.
Christie, the most anti-Trump candidate among Republicans
The dropout is a surprise, given that Christie had staked his campaign’s success on the nation’s first primary in New Hampshire, which is less than two weeks away. Just the day before she insisted that she had no plans to abandon the race.
“I would love to get someone out of the way who is actually running once morest Donald Trump,” he said at a town hall in Rochester, New Hampshire, while arguing that none of his rivals had come forward.
Without Christie in the picture, former President Donald Trump loses one of the most incisive critics he has had throughout the 2024 nomination campaign.
Unlike the rest of the former president’s competitors, from the beginning Christie has been denouncing what he considers to be a danger for the Republican Party and the country, the possibility of a new Trump presidency.
His speech did not have much echo among the Republican electorate, as it shows that Trump continues to be in a very well-established first place in the polls and that Christie was perceived as the candidate with the most rejection of those who have participated in these 2024 primaries.
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