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Christie Wins His Campaign

Daniel J. Flynn
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Chris Christie at the second GOP primary debate, Sept. 27, 2023 (TODAY/YouTube)

Chris Christie won his campaign. He only ostensibly ran for president. He really ran for token Republican on panel television shows.

He dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday night. This inevitably boosts Nikki Haley’s chances in New Hampshire.

An outlier — or maybe one caught up to reality — poll showed Trump leading Haley by just 7 percentage points in the state.

CNN reported of its poll, “Those behind Christie break solidly toward Haley, with 65% saying they would support her were Christie not in the race, with fewer than 1 in 10 of his backers choosing any other candidate and 13% saying they would not vote.”

Translation? Christie dropping out gives Haley if not a fat chance than at least a slim shot of winning the Granite State’s first in the nation primary.

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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.  
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