Yesterday I wrote about a pair of new polls out of New Hampshire, one of which showed Nikki Haley climbing to within single digits of Donald Trump, 39-32. That was interesting because the same poll showed Chris Christie in 3rd place with 12 percent. It suggested that maybe, if Christie were to drop out of the race, Haley might have a chance at an upset in the primary. But, as of yesterday, it seemed Christie had no intention of getting out of the race. In fact, National Review has a story up this afternoon saying that people were privately pleading with Christie and he was firmly refusing to budge:
“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…
