Chris Christie drops 2016 Republican presidential bid: Aide

“I think New Hampshire last night really rocked the whole country with this vote”, said Neil Levesque of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

For a brief moment after the Iowa caucuses, Republicans believed that Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the third-place finisher there, might catch up with Mr Trump and perhaps even overtake him in New Hampshire.

He joins a list of former Republican heavyweights to leave the race, including South Carolina Sen.

The attacks in Paris and San Bernardino in particular played to Christie’s advantage, allowing him to talk about his previous position as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey and play up his law-and-order credentials.

Just since winning the Granite State, the Sanders campaign announced more than $5.2 million in mostly small contributions to help it continue pressing for what it has termed political and economic revolution.

“Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican nominee … ultimately to be president you can’t just go around telling people what’s wrong, you have to tell people how you’re going to fix it”.

Christie, who came in sixth following the New Hampshire primaries Tuesday, made the decision after returning home to New Jersey Wednesday.

“We’ll go home. We haven’t been home for two weeks”, he said.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has ended his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination as candidate Carly Fiorina also pulls the pin. ABC News quoted a source briefed on Christie’s plans as saying the governor was expected to formally suspend his presidential campaign as early as Wednesday after huddling with advisers.

One Trump partisan pointed to Christie’s friendly relations with President Barack Obama as the cause of his unpopularity with the GOP voter base.

There hasn’t been a contested national convention since 1976, yet Republican National Committee officials have already had preliminary discussions about the possibility of no candidate securing a majority of delegates in the state-by-state primary contests. “I’m surprised he didn’t do better”.

Unable to sway voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Christie has chose to officially end his bid for a spot on the November general election ballot.

Trump, whose campaign has consistently spent less than his GOP rivals, ran only $3.7 million worth of television advertisements in New Hampshire, according to ad-spending data from Morning Consult.