Chris Christie Suspends Campaign, Source Says

Chris Christie officially dropped out of the 2016 presidential race, making the announcement on his Facebook page on Wednesday afternoon.

Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina made it official – they are done with their runs for the Republican nomination for president.

The night of the New Hampshire Republican primary, Christie shared with his supporters that he was going to return home and plan his next steps in the campaign.

His shine was dulled by the so-called Bridgegate scandal in 2013.

After a poor performance in the New Hampshire primary, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to formally suspend his campaign.

Conservative pundits, from Charles Krauthammer to Rupert Murdoch, are characterizing Christie as a “kamikaze” or “suicide bomber” after the New Jersey governor attacked Rubio for regurgitating almost identical, anti-Barack-Obama talking points during the last presidential debate.

Many other GOP candidates didn’t even make it to the Granite State: Kentucky Sen.

After all that, Christie garnered only 7 percent of the vote.

According to the exit polls conducted in New Hampshire, 24 percent of Republican voters put a priority on choosing a candidate who would “tell it like it is” – essentially the slogan for Christie’s campaign.

“At the end of the day, it just became a lot of people competing for that space of votes, a lot of money spent against him by a lot of those people”.

Marco Rubio, leading pundits to say their political relationship had devolved into a “murder-suicide” after they tore into each other at the most recent GOP debate.

Party leaders courted Mr. Christie to run for president in 2012, and nominee Mitt Romney considered him as a vice- presidential pick.

Fiorina won applause from women on both sides of the aisle in the second Republican debate in September when she was asked to respond to Donald Trump’s comments criticizing her face.

While Christie first laughed off the suggestion that his team had anything to do with the plot, the denials quickly unraveled with the release of emails including one from a top aide that read, “Time for some Traffic problems in Fort Lee”. I guess it’s New Jersey’s gain that his campaign ends today. “It helped (Jeb) Bush and it helped (John) Kasich, not him”.

While Baker might have been late to the New Hampshire primary when he arrived on Saturday, many high-profile Massachusetts Democrats, including Attorney General Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, have been door-knocking and organizing for Hillary Clinton for months and could not stop the drubbing the former secretary of state took Tuesday from Vermont Sen.

Now the field moves to the next primary in SC, which is known for some bare-knuckles and often brutal campaigns. On MSNBC Wednesday morning, first-place New Hampshire finisher Donald Trump said he had a “long talk” with Christie Tuesday night but did not go into detail about what was said.