Christie Implores GOP Voters Not to Vote for Trump After Dropping Out: ‘How Much More Evidence Do You Need?’

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped out of the Republican presidential primary on Wednesday and urged GOP primary voters not to support former President Donald Trump.

Christie’s exit came just hours before the final Republican debate ahead of the Iowa Caucuses. The contest will feature Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Trump, who is the frontrunner, will boycott the debate as he has done with the others.

Speaking to supporters in Windham, New Hampshire, Christie did not endorse a candidate, though he all but begged Republican primary voters not to vote for Trump:

Donald Trump wants you to be angry every day because he’s angry. He wants you to be angry so that you’ll relate to his anger and then to vote for him. Please understand this. I have known him well for 22 years – more than anybody else in this race has known him. And I can promise you this. If you put him back behind the desk in the Oval Office and the choice comes and the decision is needed to be made as to whether he puts himself first or he puts you first, how much more evidence do you need that he will pick himself?

And if that is what we have there, then people are gonna remain angry, remain divided, and become even more exhausted than they are today. The country that I think we should choose is the country that recognizes that our differences have always been our strength, not a weakness, not something to divide us and anger us, but our differences have been our strength. We come from different countries at different times to different places with different skills, with different religions.

Christie endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020, and even helped him prepping for presidential debates.

“Turns out I was wrong,” he told CNN last year. “I couldn’t make him a better candidate and I couldn’t make him a better president, and he disappointed me.”

Trump is currently acing 91 criminal counts in four jurisdictions. In two cases, he is being prosecuted for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

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