page_title: Chris Christie 2016 presidential campaign
section_title: Iowa and New Hampshire
hierarchical_section_title: Chris Christie 2016 presidential campaign / Iowa and New Hampshire
caption_attribution_description: English: Chris Christie speaking at the Iowa GOP's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines, Iowa on October 31, 2015.
context_page_description: The 2016 presidential campaign of Chris Christie, the 55th Governor of New Jersey, began on June 30, 2015, at an event in his hometown of Livingston, New Jersey. Following a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary, the campaign was suspended on February 10, 2016. He endorsed Donald Trump on February 26, 2016.
context_section_description: He spent considerable time in Iowa in 2014 laying groundwork. He had little expectation to win. He placed 10th in a field of 12 candidates with 1.8% of the ballots cast. Having claimed he would be "number one" of the state governors running, he came in 4th.
  Christie focused much of his campaign's effort in winning the New Hampshire Republican primary, for which a former Governor's Office staff member and political operative began working in winter 2014.  On January 4, 2016, at his campaign headquarters in New Hampshire Christie said "I'm going to be up here until Wednesday night. We'll take a short break, go back home, deliver the State of the State address the week after next in New Jersey, and then come back out on the road again". Christie campaigned extensively using a town meeting format, but in polls before the primary slipped and he fell behind. He spent 70 days in the state. In the New Hampshire debate he attacked candidate Marco Rubio. He placed sixth in a field of nine in the New Hampshire primary on February 9.
caption: Christie speaking at an event hosted by the Iowa Republican Party in October 2015.
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