Christie is out of the presidential race
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Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump, called on the Supreme Court’s intervention in regards to the Colorado Supreme Court’s wrongful ruling.
“I do not believe Donald Trump should be prevented from being president of the United States by any court,” he said in New Hampshire. The people of this country should prevent him from being president. If he is barred from the ballot by a court, then it is not in the best interests of our country. If that happens, it will be bad for the country.
I will beat him fairly and square. We don’t have judges making those decisions, according to Haley. We need voters to make these decisions.
Republican presidential candidates were quick to defend Trump after the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine Secretary of State ruled he would be disqualified from their individual state 2024 primary ballots.
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“It’d be really the easiest pardon decision I would ever have to make as president,” Christie said. “You don’t accept responsibility? Too bad. Go to jail.”
She said that she would pardon Trump if he was found guilty. It was important for them to move on as a country, says DeSantis just like Haley did.
Most of his rivals have gone to great pains to avoid directly criticizing the former president out of concern that it would alienate base Republican voters.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie mostly stood alone in this year’s Republican primary contest as an uninhibited critic of the party’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump.
But with a week to go before the Iowa caucuses, the candidates are stepping up attacks on Trump as they try to convince voters that they deserve to be at the top of the Republican party’s ticket.
Look at any of the polls against Joe Biden. Ron does not beat Biden. Trump head-to-head — on a good day he might be up by 2. The Wall Street Journal had him up by 4. I’m in all of those polls, she said at an Iowa town hall hosted by CNN. “I defeat Biden by 17 points. Seventeen points!
‘I don’t know how to live, but we can’t have a world on fire,’ said Haley, the former U.N. ambassador
Haley, who was the former United Nations ambassador under Trump, says her old boss was the “right president at the right time” but that he causes too much chaos to be successful in a second term.
We can’t have a country that is in disarray and a world on fire for four more years. At the Iowa town hall event, she said that we wouldn’t survive it.
She has attacked Trump’s policies, charging that he was overly focused on trade and did not do enough to address the flow of fentanyl. And she attacked Trump on his handling of the economy, which is considered to be his strongest record by many Republicans.
Everyone talks about how great the economy was under Trump. And it was good, right? But at what cost,” Haley asked. “We had $8 trillion dollars in debt just in four years. Our kids will never forgive us for that.”
Trump “set the stage” for raising inflation, according to DeSantis. He criticized the former president for not finishing the wall at the border.
And he’s accused Trump of “flip-flopping his position on abortion.” He pointed to comments Trump made about the abortion ban that the governor of Florida signed.
He said in an interview that no one would take the case directly to Donald Trump as to why he was disqualified for ever being president. “I want to make that case. I’ve been talking about it. I think it’s important not only for my party, but for our country.”
Meanwhile, political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy has vigorously defended Trump throughout his campaign. He has never wavered from his description of Trump as the best president of the 21st century.
On the campaign trail, Trump has downplayed the violence that ensued on Jan. 6. He’s described it as a “beautiful day” and called those charged and convicted in the attack “hostages.”
She kept that message going throughout the campaign and kept honing it in recent weeks. Last month, she told ABC News that Trump could have not only prevented the attack, but stopped them once they began.
“When President Trump had the opportunity to stop it, when he had the opportunity to say – the bully pulpit matters, people listen – he didn’t,” she said.
The attack was described as a riot, but not an insurrection. He blamed Democrats and the media for trying to hurt Trump’s name, while describing it as a bad day for the country.
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Trump faces four separate indictments, including two from the Justice Department over his handling of of classified documents and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. He’s the first president in American history to be charged with either state or federal crimes.
He has denied that he did anything wrong, and successfully used the indictments to fuel his campaign. The investigations became a litmus test for the rest of the field.
Those who criticized Trump for the investigations had to face hatred from his supporters at debates and other events.
“The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation,” DeSantis tweeted.
Haley criticizes Trump for being “inscredibly reckless” with US national security materials and has called the investigations of Trump political.
“That’s what defeat looks and sounds like,” Christie said. There is only one country that can defeat America. The only people that have the power to stop it are us.
He said that even though he is suspending the campaign, his voice is not going away. “I am not going be a part of a generation who willingly stands by and says, ‘It’s too hard. He’s too loud, he’s too strong,'” Christie said in reference to Trump.
Trump, meanwhile, holds a dominating lead, polling at 61.3% nationally — a sign that the MAGA leader’s pull with his base remains strong, despite four high-profile cases being litigated against him.
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He was unable to get the headway he needed. Christie didn’t get the support of the most influential politician in New Hampshire, Governor Chris Sununu, who endorsed Haley last December and called his bid “an absolute dead end.”
His announcement was overshadowed by a hot mic moment while he was speaking. In a live feed on his campaign YouTube page, his mic went live around 5:10 p.m. E.T. and he was speaking about his presidential rivals. He applauded Haley for punching above her weight, but said she was going to get smoked. On Ron DeSantis, he said the Florida governor “is petrified” before his mic was abruptly cut.
“Voters have a clear choice in this election: the chaos and drama of the past or a new generation of conservative leadership,” she wrote. “I will fight to get as many votes as possible so that we can build a strong and proud America.”
He’s hitting a ceiling by staying in the race, but he says he wants to stay in the race to speak the truth about Trump.
