During the voting Tuesday, he said he expected to travel to SC the next day to continue campaigning, but the final results changed those plans and the governor returned home to New Jersey, where he huddled with top advisers today before deciding to drop out. Ted Cruz courted evangelicals and hard-line conservatives and Florida Sen.
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While Clinton and the Republican establishment candidates have campaigned hard on their viability in a general election, just 12 percent of voters in either party said their main concern was choosing a candidate who could win in November.
Trump’s remaining opponents, majority mainstream Republicans, will likely benefit from their departures, which leave seven Republicans from a field that once had 17 candidates.
Tuesday’s primary was a stinging loss for Hillary Clinton and resounding wins for Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders. Baker said he still thinks Christie is “terrific”.
Trump leads in SC with 36 per cent support in the RealClearPolitics poll average.
Christie finished a distant sixth, with less than 7.5 percent of the vote from the New Hampshire primary despite having spent months crisscrossing the small state in a vigorous campaign. The data was measured between the February 1 Iowa caucuses and Monday, the eve of the New Hampshire primary.
The two join the list of Republicans who have left the presidential race, which includes South Carolina Sen.
After flooding hit coastal towns in New Jersey in January, Mr Christie had to apologise after he sarcastically dismissed calls for him to do more to help.
“They’re throwing everything at me except the kitchen sink, and I have the feeling that kitchen sink is coming pretty soon”, he said in a buoyant victory speech.
Fiorina’s willingness to attack Clinton – she once invited media to a press conference outside the same hotel in SC where Clinton was holding an event just minutes later – could keep her in the running for the vice presidential nomination.
Mr. Sanders may be the political, and sartorial, polar opposite of Mr. Trump, but he has tapped into a similar vein of revulsion for business as usual in American politics.
Her campaign sought to capitalise on Republican voters’ apparent appetite for candidates outside the political establishment, but her poll numbers quickly faded and she was never able to recover. “We did not do well on Saturday and so listen to this: That will never happen again”.
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For the GOP, Bierbauer says SC results will rely heavily on if candidates can challenge Trump.
