Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie‘s surprise presidential campaign suspension on Wednesday was a much-needed boon to former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley‘s campaign as she battles Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for second place in the primary.

Christie’s exit comes just five days before the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses and 13 days before the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary, where he and Haley had been battling for second place. But his exit gives Haley the opportunity to coalesce more voters who are put off by former President Donald Trump.

Whereas DeSantis has staked his campaign on performing well during the Iowa caucuses, Haley has campaigned hard in New Hampshire in a bid to thwart the former president from securing the GOP nomination.

Still, in recent polling, Trump has dominated his rivals, with a RealClearPolitics survey of Granite State polls showing Trump at 43%, Haley at 29.3%, and Christie at 12%. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is polling at a distant 6.3%, as is biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy at 5%.

Christie did not endorse Haley in his speech ending his campaign and sometimes directly criticized her aversion to attacking Trump as she seeks the White House. He did, however, make it unequivocally clear he remains against another Trump-led White House.

“I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again,” Christie said before the audience erupted in cheers and applause.

And as a vocal anti-Trump critic, his supporters will likely back Haley as she takes on Trump during the New Hampshire primary, one pollster said.