Weeks after some never-Trumper pundits urged former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to drop out of the GOP presidential race to give surging candidate Nikki Haley a chance to challenge Donald J. Trump in New Hampshire and five days before the Iowa caucuses, Christie has dropped out of the GOP presidential race, The Wall Street Journal reports. He declined to endorse another candidate, though Christie's withdrawal almost certainly will be a boon to Haley, the former UN ambassador to Trump and ex-governor of South Carolina who has narrowed Trump's lead in New Hampshire to a single-digit number in some polls.

"It's clear to me tonight that there isn't a path for me to win the nomination," Christie said Wednesday night. "I want to promise you this, I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again."

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Right of Way-- As "(j)udges seem skeptical of Trump's January 6 immunity claim," according to The Washington Post, it's a good time to re-read -- or read for the first time -- our pundit at-large for the right column, Stephen Macaulay's August 10, 2023 column on United States of America v. Donald J. Trump. Read "Trump's Tinkerbell Defense" here: <https://thehustings.news/trumps-tinkerbell-defense/ >

Read our first debate in The Hustings, covering and commenting on the first presidential debate between Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden here: https://thehustings.news/page/71/.

Contributing pundit Bryan Williams wrote the right-column commentary on that debate. (Re-)read that here: https://thehustings.news/reality-tv-producers-will-be-jealous-of-this-first-debate/

Will this fall’s presidential race be a mirror-image repeat of 2020? Email your comments to editors@thehustings.news and please indicate your political leanings in the subject line.

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