Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ended his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday (Jan 10) after failing to achieve momentum for a marketing campaign centered on fierce criticism of the insurance policies and character of frontrunner Donald Trump.
Christie dropped out simply days earlier than the primary Republican nominating contest in Iowa. He had the assist of simply 2 per cent of Republicans in a nationwide Reuters/Ipsos ballot accomplished on Tuesday – the identical stage of assist as former Consultant Liz Cheney, who by no means declared herself a candidate.
Trump holds a giant lead within the contest to be the get together’s nominee towards President Joe Biden in November’s election, in response to the Reuters/Ipsos ballot. The ballot put him at 49 per cent, forward of former UN ambassador Nikki Haley at 12 per cent and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 11 per cent.
Christie, 61, instructed a city corridor occasion in New Hampshire that he now not noticed a path ahead for his marketing campaign, and repeated warnings about what would occur if Trump have been to win the presidential election.
“I’m going to make it possible for by no means do I allow Donald Trump ever (to) be president of the USA once more and that is extra necessary than my very own private ambition,” he mentioned.
Christie’s base of assist was drastically concentrated in New Hampshire, the northeastern US state that holds the second Republican nominating contest on Jan 23 after Iowa on Monday.
He had been beneath strain from some anti-Trump teams to drop out and provides Haley one of the best shot towards Trump in New Hampshire, the place voters are inclined to skew extra reasonable than in different early Republican nominating states.
Republican pollster Whit Ayres predicted nearly all of Christie’s assist in New Hampshire, which a RealClearPolitics ballot aggregation put at about 12 per cent, would probably gravitate to Haley.
“This leaves Trump because the odds-on favourite to win, however with Haley having a path to profitable New Hampshire that’s now a bit wider than it was when Chris Christie was within the race,” Ayres mentioned.
