Chris Christie Ends Campaign

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Christie on Wednesday said defeating Trump was "more important than my personal ambition.
50% : Anyway, he was just caught on a hot mic making a very truthful statement," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
39% : Here's the current RCP aggregate: Trump is averaging a 51.2% lead over Haley, his nearest challenger.
34% : In 2016, many pundits and activists called on the non-crazies to rally around a single candidate in order to beat Trump.
27% : Bloomberg ("Chris Christie to Exit 2024 Race Days Before Iowa Republican Caucus"): Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he is ending his long-shot 2024 campaign centered on denying onetime ally Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination.
22% : Christie's exit still potentially boosts the candidacies of Haley and DeSantis who have emerged as the main alternatives to frontrunner Trump.
22% : Notably, this comes just a week after a tendentious interview with Hugh Hewitt, in which the host repeatedly asked why Christie was still in the race and hurting Haley's chances to beat Trump.
7% : Indeed, we have the reverse 2016 this time around: Trump is competing against two other MAGA candidates in Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy.

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