Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's GOP presidential campaign has been sitting in Nowheresville ever since his longshot run for our nation's highest office began back in June.

Dubbed by one prominent conservative media commentator as the "kamikaze" candidate, Christie's polling numbers have remained at basement levels outside of New Hampshire, a primary basket where Christie is laying all of his eggs and where his campaign has admitted that they welcome crossover votes from Democrat voters who are looking to help Christie play spoiler in his bid to keep former President Donald Trump from winning the nomination.

On Thursday, though, Christie received some bad news from a Maine court, which rejected his appeal to get on the Maine presidential primary ballot:

A judge has affirmed the decision by the Maine secretary of state that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did not submit the necessary number of signatures needed to qualify for the Republican presidential primary election and shouldn’t appear on the March 5 ballot.

Christie’s campaign had appealed Secretary of State Shenna Bellow’s ruling by arguing that the Augusta City Clerk’s Bureau had a rushed process and didn’t verify all the signatures it could have when reviewing petitions the campaign submitted.

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In a ruling issued Thursday, Kennebec County Superior Court Justice Julia Lipez sided with Bellows. “The secretary rejected his petition because Mr. Christie failed to meet the signature threshold established by Maine law. … The court affirms the secretary’s decision,” Lipez wrote.

March 5th is Super Tuesday, a big day for presidential campaigns in their quests to either establish themselves as the dominant, unbeatable candidate in the race or to otherwise make it competitive and interesting for the frontrunners.

Of course, with Christie's campaign floundering like it is with no end in sight, and with other candidates, especially Donald Trump, doing much better in terms of polling, donors, etc., it's hard to see where Christie being off the ballot in Maine a month and a half after GOP voters start casting their votes will likely even matter at that point for him barring any shocking surprise showings and the like.

Though Christie has said throughout his campaign that he was in it to win it, he has increasingly become viewed as one of the candidates who is hurting the chances of first-tier candidates in the race to close the distance a bit between themselves and Trump.

As RedState previously reported, Christie has vowed to stay in the race despite the growing criticisms and suggestions he should call it quits.

“I’m not going anywhere, so let’s be really clear about that,” Christie declared in front of a group of reporters and attendees after a New Hampshire town hall in early December.

“The field will consolidate when it wants to consolidate,” he also said that day, according to the Washington Post. “You’re not going to force it, donors aren’t going to force it. The only people who are going to force it are voters.”

By the looks of things, as they stand now, though, the voters will likely indeed be deciding that for Christie very, very soon - and not in a way he's going to like.

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