New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he's going home to New Jersey to deal with the impending blizzard rather than continue campaigning in New Hampshire for the GOP presidential nomination,
The Wall Street Journal reports.
He announced his decision shortly before 1 p.m. Friday on Twitter:
He initially suggested Thursday, as reports of the storm's potential fury grew, that he likely would
stay on the trail.
"I don’t plan to" head home, he said Thursday. "The lieutenant governor is there, and she's handling things on the ground there. If I needed to go back I would."
That decision drew fire from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, who told CNN Friday morning that Christie needed to return to the Garden State because the snow emergency was more important than politics.
Christie began wavering.
"I may go back," he said Friday morning,according to
ABC News. "Let me be clear, I never made any decision not to go back. I’ll make a decision at that time as to what I’m going to do as we get a better handle on it."
"This is not something that New Jersey hasn’t dealt with multiple times every winter for every winter that I’ve been governor and this has been a state that has dealt with Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy," the governor added.
Not long after, he announced his decision to return.
Cristie was scheduled to be in New Hampshire through Monday.
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