Chris Christie receives endorsement from New Hampshire newspaper in landmark

In an editorial titled “For our safety, our future: Chris Christie for President”, released on Sunday in the New Hampshire Union Leader’s print editions and on its website, the newspaper wrote that with the New Hampshire primary 10 weeks away, and voters will “make a choice that will profoundly affect our country and the world.

But “the one reason he may be best-suited to lead during these times is because he tells it like it is and isn’t shy about it”, McQuaid wrote.

Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during the Sunshine Summit conference being held at the Rosen Shingle Creek on November 14, 2015 in Orlando, Florida. And it is the strongest suggestion of the vibrancy of a candidate who has fought for survival in a sprawling field, after the so-called Bridgegate scandal in New Jersey dampened his national prospects and hindered his standing in the polls and in fundraising. “But it’s important when you are telling it like it is to actually know what you are talking about”, he continues, laying into Donald Trump without naming him. Christie has said his strategy in New Hampshire is “one voter at a time”.

The paper’s endorsement, which has historically boosted Republican candidates in the polls, not-so-subtly jabbed Sens.

McQuaid went on to praise Christie as a “solid, pro-life conservative” and lauded his work with unions and those “across the aisle” without getting “rolled in by the bureaucrats”. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

“We don’t need as President some well-meaning person from the private sector who has no public experience”, McQuaid wrote.

“Gov. Christie is right for these unsafe times”, the editorial continued. “We are still seeing the disastrous effects of the last such choice”, he wrote in the endorsement published online Saturday night. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who ultimately received the nomination, in 2008.

The Union Leader’s endorsement is a much-needed gain for Christie’s presidential campaign.

In 2012, the publication endorsed Republican Newt Gingrich for the party’s nomination, which Gingrich ultimately lost to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Nationally, Christie is running in about eighth place among Republican, although Christie has made many trips to New Hampshire and has polled higher there.