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Christie, Fiorina Say ‘Sayonara’
To GOP Race
The New Hampshire Primary claimed 2 casualties on Wednesday, with former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie both ending their bid for the Republican nomination for president.
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As OK WASSUP! predicted in Wednesday’s New Hampshire Primary article, Christie, Fiorina and Dr. Ben Carson were all “on the clock” and in need of reassessing their campaigns, following poor showings by each candidate. At least 2 of them heeded the advice.
Once the darling of the Republican Party, Gov. Christie staked his entire campaign on making a big splash in New Hampshire and dumped most of his resources into the state. However, by night’s end Christie came in a distant 6th place, garnering only 7.4% of the vote and zero delegates.
Christie was scheduled to immediately fly from New Hampshire to South Carolina to commence campaigning for the February 27th primary. However, his extremely poor showing on Tuesday night (which followed an equally poor showing last week in Iowa) forced the governor to head back to New Jersey to “take a deep breath” and rethink his political future.
Christie huddled with his advisors on Wednesday afternoon, called his shrinking list of big donors, then announced his time had ended.
“While running for president, I tried to reinforce what I have always believed: that speaking your mind matters, that experience matters, that competence matters and that it will always matter in leading our nation,” the governor wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday afternoon. “That message was heard by and stood for by a lot of people, but just not enough, and that’s O.K.” He added “And so today, I leave the race without an ounce of regret.”
With Christie out of the race, only 2 governors — Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — remain in the running for the GOP nomination.
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After finishing the New Hampshire contest in 7th place, with 4.1% of the vote and zero delegates, Carly Fiorina concluded it was time to stop swimming upstream. In a statement posted to her Facebook page, Fiorina vowed to remain active in politics despite her political failures.
“While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them,” Fiorina wrote. “I will continue to serve in order to restore citizen government to this great nation so that together we may fulfill our potential.”
Dr. Ben Carson ended the New Hampshire Primary nearly invisible, coming in 8th place with 2.3% of the vote and zero delegates. Still, he vowed to hang on, if only by a thread, just a bit longer.
“I’m not getting any pressure from our millions of supporters (to leave the race). I’m getting a lot of pressure to make sure I stay in the race,” Carson told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. “You know, they’re reminding me that I’m here because I responded to their imploring me to get involved. And I respect that and I’m not just going to walk away from the millions of people who are supporting me.”
He continued: “We didn’t spend nearly as much money in New Hampshire as many others. We didn’t spend anywhere near millions of dollars there, recognizing there were certain things that were going to happen there. So you have to pick your battles very carefully. We’re doing just fine, people will continue to support us, we will move forward.”
Without even a respectable showing in South Carolina, Dr. Carson is almost certain to be the next candidate to fade into the sunset.
The once 15 candidate roster of Republicans has now been trimmed to 6, with only Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Dr. Ben Carson, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich remaining in the race.
You were right about who was going to drop out DJ. Except I don't know what Ben Carson is trying to prove staying in. He should have been gone a long time ago.
On a related note I'm still worried about Hillary Clinton. Now that Sanders won New Hampshire she said she's just going to attack him more to get the lead. She really doesn't get it. That's part of the reason young people don't like her, especially because Sanders isn't attacking her at all. She only knows one way and that is to be negative. It cost her with Obama and it's going to cost her again because she didn't learn nothing.