New Hampshire Republicans Ramp Up Effort to Push Christie Out of Race as Haley Surges

Anti-Trump Republicans are privately pleading with Chris Christie to drop out of the race ahead of the Granite State’s January 23 primary to make room for the surging Nikki Haley. Those phone calls aren’t going over well.

“He flat out said: ‘I’m not dropping out,’” says New Hampshire restaurateur Tom Boucher, a former member of Christie’s steering committee who called the former New Jersey governor Sunday morning urging him to bow out of the race and endorse Haley, lest he sabotage his own stated goal of preventing Donald Trump from returning to the White House.

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Anti-Trump Republicans are privately pleading with Chris Christie to drop out of the race ahead of the Granite State’s January 23 primary to make room for the surging Nikki Haley. Those phone calls aren’t going over well.

“He flat out said: ‘I’m not dropping out,’” says New Hampshire restaurateur Tom Boucher, a former member of Christie’s steering committee who called the former New Jersey governor Sunday morning urging him to bow out of the race and endorse Haley, lest he sabotage his own stated goal of preventing Donald Trump from returning to the White House.