Chris Christie won’t run for president in 2012

By JONATHAN MARTIN & MAGGIE HABERMAN & ALEXANDER BURNS | Politico

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally announced that he wasn’t going to join the presidential race on Tuesday, saying he’d come back to his original feeling about staying out despite reconsidering in recent days.

“In the end, what I’ve always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. Now is not my time. I have a commitment to the people of New Jersey that I simply will not abandon,” Christie said, speaking to reporters in Trenton. “People sent me to Trenton to get a job done, and I’m just not prepared to walk away.”

Christie repeated that he believed that Obama has “failed the leadership test.”

But he pledged to stay focused on his job as governor: “New Jersey, whether you like it or not, you’re stuck with me.”

Christie said he’d felt obligated to reconsider after being approached by so many people in recent weeks, but his decision is final, explaining, “I think they understand that this was a longshot for them to change my mind in the first place.”

Christie left the door open to a possible endorsement of another candidate, but made no commitments. He also brushed off talk of running for vice president, saying: “I don’t think there’s anybody in America who’d say my personality is best-suited to being a number two.”

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