As he lags behind Trump and Haley in N.H., Chris Christie resists calls to drop out of GOP primary race - The Boston Globe

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49% : Likewise, onetime Trump voter Glenn Bergeron -- who has voted for Trump in the past but is now weighing Christie and Haley -- said he considers the polls but feels compelled to vote for the candidate "that I feel like, when my head hits the pillow, that I did right.
43% : Trump is the clear front-runner, in New Hampshire and nationally, but his rivals insist there's still plenty of time for that to change.
43% : Boucher praised Christie's campaign but said it's time for him to end it, so that "he can accomplish what he wanted, which is to get Trump out.
38% : Christie's support hovers just above 10 percent in New Hampshire's GOP primary, according to polling averages, putting him far behind Trump and Haley.
36% : Some say they like the former New Jersey governor for taking a hard line on Trump but wonder if voting for Haley would be more strategic, as her momentum in the state and higher standing in the polls give her a better shot at beating the former president.
35% : "I saw that Nikki got this big bump in the polls, and that she may have an opportunity to do that," Dworman added, but said it gives her pause that the former UN ambassador would be willing to pardon Trump should he be convicted.
34% : But now, some Republican strategists and elected officials argue, Christie's own candidacy could unintentionally help Trump, as the third-place contender siphons votes away from a more viable alternative.
34% : But for Christie, the attacks on Trump are the whole point.
33% : That suggests that if Christie were to drop out, much of his support could flow to Haley, making her more competitive against Trump.
32% : "We deserve better" than Trump, he said, "but we're not gonna get it if we don't do it for ourselves.
29% : "If Chris is true to his message about defeating Trump ...
26% : Christie's campaign is "at an absolute dead end," Sununu said in a recent CNN interview, and New Hampshire has become "a two-person race" between Trump and Haley.
26% : By criticizing Trump so vociferously, he's effectively spurned any voters who are sympathetic to the former president, even if they'd be open to voting for another Republican.
25% : "Appealing to voters' better angels, he assured them they still have time to change history's course by rejecting Trump when they vote in the primary on Jan. 23.
22% : "I am voting for the person who can beat Trump; it's either Nikki Haley or Chris Christie," said Joanne Dworman, of Exeter, N.H., at a Haley event in Kingston on Wednesday.
20% : Haley, she explained, has been too supportive of Trump, "and my conscience won't allow" it.
15% : The former New Jersey governor has been clear from the start that he got into the race to defeat Donald Trump.
14% : By staying in, Sununu said, "the risk is that he takes [Haley's] margin of the win.""The only person that wants Chris Christie to stay in the race is Donald Trump," Sununu added.
12% : I'm the only one saying Donald Trump is a liar.
11% : And even some voters who are no fans of Trump criticize Christie as a one-trick pony who has more to say about why they shouldn't vote for Trump than why they should vote for Christie.
9% : "Circle the wagons and join the forces, because no one is going to beat Trump unless somebody gets together and puts a full offensive against him," said Bob McGrath, 74, who is deciding between Haley and Christie.
8% : Kathleen Wade, an independent voter from Greenland, N.H., who is backing Christie and loathes Trump, said concerns that Trump's rivals would split the vote pushed her to consider a vote for Haley.
6% : He talks less about his own place in the polls (a distant third in New Hampshire behind Trump and Haley) and more about Trump's place in the lead, saying, "We should be ashamed.

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