US election: Chris Christie backs Donald Trump for Republican candidate in lead-up to Super Tuesday
Updated about an hour ago
Photo: Mr Christie spoke alongside Mr Trump in Fort Worth, Texas. (Reuters: Mike Stone)
Former Republican presidential contender Chris Christie has formally backed Donald Trump for the nomination, becoming the most prominent mainstream party member to endorse the controversial billionaire.
Mr Christie, speaking alongside Mr Trump in Fort Worth, Texas, said the real estate mogul had the best chance of beating Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November 8 presidential election.
"Donald Trump is someone who when he makes a promise, he keeps it," said Mr Christie, who until two weeks ago was himself a rival of Mr Trump.
"There is no-one who is better prepared to provide America with the strong leadership that it needs both at home and around the world than Donald Trump."
Mr Christie pulled out of the Republican White House race after a dismal showing in the nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, where he finished 10th and sixth respectively.
He said Mr Trump was the party's best hope of winning back the presidency from the Democrats.
"The best person to beat Hillary Clinton in November ... is undoubtedly Donald Trump," he said.
"I will lend my support between now and November every way that I can for Donald to make the campaign an even better campaign than it's already been and do what he needs to do to help to make the country everything we want it to be for our children and grandchildren."
Mr Trump welcomed the move, saying: "This is the one endorsement that I felt very strongly about I wanted to get."
Mr Christie, 53, a former federal prosecutor, is a moderate Republican running a largely Democratic state and was once seen as one of the party's best hopes in 2016.
His endorsement of Mr Trump — an outsider whose brash, provocative style of politics has upended the Republican race — marks a potential turning point in the campaign.
Mr Trump has won three straight nominating contests in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, convincing some mainstream Republicans that he may have too much momentum to be stopped, especially if he wins big in the key southern US primaries four days away.
Mr Trump has vowed to build a wall on the US-Mexican border to fight illegal immigration, called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US and promised to take a tough stance on trade against China.
Republican rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz ganged up on Mr Trump at the raucous debate, in a last-ditch bid to keep the billionaire from winning in states holding nominating contests on Super Tuesday that could set him up to clinch the presidential nomination.
But they only dented Mr Trump's momentum, according to opinion polls and online betting markets.
Former secretary of state Hilary Clinton is battling US senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for the Democratic nomination.
READ MORE: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-27/trump-wins-christie-endorsement-on-march-toward-super-tuesday/7204716
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