Christie’s Good Deed for the GOP

Chris Christie has run for months as the self-described truth-teller in the 2024 presidential race, and on Wednesday he admitted a hard truth to himself: He has no realistic path to win the GOP nomination for the White House. He made the honorable decision to drop out even before any votes have been cast.

“It’s clear to me tonight that there isn’t a path for me to win the nomination,” he said in remarks in New Hampshire. “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.”

He’s referring to the fact that Mr. Trump will benefit if the non-Trump GOP vote fractures in support of multiple candidates. That’s what was likely to happen if Mr. Christie stayed in the race through the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 23, which follows a week after Monday’s Iowa caucuses. Mr. Christie wasn’t competing in Iowa and bet everything on the Granite State’s famously independent voters.