New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is pushing Chris Christie to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, arguing that the only one who wants him to stay in the race is Donald Trump.
“He knows his voters who want to see Trump defeated all come down to Nikki Haley,” Sununu told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.
“In fact the only person who wants Chris Christie to stay in the race is Donald Trump. Think about the irony.”
Sununu, the popular Republican governor of the Granite State, confirmed former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley as president earlier this month.
Christie has positioned himself as Trump’s attack dog in the 2024 GOP arena and has essentially staked his presidential campaign on a strong performance in New Hampshire.
Haley averaged second place in New Hampshire with 24.8% support, while Trump remained firmly in first place at 46.3%. Christie was a distant third at 10.5%, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate.
“The events of the past few days fully reinforce what Christie has been doing for six months. That the truth is important and if you can’t answer a simple question you can’t solve a big problem,” Christie’s spokesperson told The Post in response to questions about Sununu’s jab.
Chris Christie has resisted calls for him to bow out, countering that he is the only one opposed to Donald Trump. AP
Given Christie’s polling in New Hampshire, some critics like Sununu have argued that he should end his campaign to unite his anti-Trump voters behind Haley.
Christie recently cut an ad rejecting that notion.
“Some people say I should get out of this race. Really? I’m the only one who says Donald Trump is a liar,” Christie said. “What kind of president do we want, a liar or someone who dares to tell the truth?”
Sununu has been a vocal critic of Trump, even considering launching his own campaign before deciding that a crowded election would favor the 45th president.
“Chris Christie is a friend. But the race is at a dead end,” Sununu told CNN. “Chris only talks about Trump. That’s it, he’s kind of a one-man show.”
The governor of New Hampshire has assumed that Nikki Haley poses the best possibility of defeating Donald Trump. AP Nikki Haley has gained significant momentum in several recent polls. AP
“And I know he said he wanted to stay in the race to tell the truth about Trump, but that translates to votes in the primary is a very different thing and he hit the ceiling.”
Sununu’s jealousy of Christie came as he hit back at the former New Jersey governor who knocked Haley as slippery, saying, “he doesn’t want to offend anyone by telling the truth.”
Christie’s criticism of Haley was over an error at a town hall event in Berlin, NH, where she refused to blame slavery for causing the Civil War. He has explained that it is “about slavery.”
Donald Trump remains the runaway 2024 GOP frontrunner. AP
“He cleaned it up quickly, didn’t he?” Sununu said about the flub. “Obviously, if there’s something that needs to be resolved a little bit, you know you wish you’d said it a little differently the first time, but it was resolved quickly.”
The first GOP contest is scheduled to take place on January 15, 2024, in the Iowa caucuses. The New Hampshire GOP primary is set for January 23, 2024.
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