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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Presidential ambitions have come to an finish. On Sunday, he suspended his marketing campaign and issued an at-times backhanded, although robust endorsement of Donald Trump.
On the eve of the New Hampshire major, no much less, which takes place on Tuesday.
DeSantis dropped out and threw his assist behind Trump in a video posted on X, the identical platform the place he kicked off his White Home bid. (And sadly, with a spurious quote.)
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DeSantis Out
DeSantis mentioned on X, “Now, following our second-place finish in Iowa, we’ve prayed and deliberated on the way forward.”
“If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it,” the governor continued. “But I can’t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources. We don’t have a clear path to victory.”
“Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign,” DeSantis declared.
He acknowledged that Trump, whom he has viciously attacked in the course of the major, was the clear selection of nearly all of Republican voters.
“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance. They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare to this day to attack him.” he mentioned.
I’ve had disagreements with him, equivalent to on the Coronavirus pandemic, and his elevation of Anthony Fauci, Trump is superior to the present incumbent Joe Biden. That’s clear.
Then DeSantis acquired behind his former rival to assault the institution wing of the get together, represented by Nikki Haley: “He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
Within the Iowa Caucus final week, DeSantis and Haley got here in at distant second and third to Trump, respectively.
After Iowa, in accordance with NBC Information, “Since coming in second in Iowa on Monday, DeSantis’ campaign has sent mixed signals to voters, donors and lower-level aides, creating confusion about his intentions for the rest of the campaign.”
“He went directly to South Carolina from Iowa, a move apparently designed to bolster his insistence that he would stay in the race at least until that state’s late-February primary,” the report famous. “But then he bounced back and forth between South Carolina and New Hampshire, scheduling events in the Granite State with little warning for supporters and undecided voters who wanted to see him before Tuesday’s primary.”
On Sunday, DeSantis canceled an NBC Meet the Press look and left his supporters questioning what was occurring.
Later that day, it grew to become clear.
Some Trump allies noticed it coming. Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz mentioned at a Trump rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on Sunday earlier than DeSantis’s announcement, “We might get Ron DeSantis back onside pretty soon.”
And shortly it was.
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DeSantis Went After Trump Earlier than Iowa
DeSantis was surprisingly aggressive together with his criticism of Trump througout the marketing campaign, regardless of understanding that a lot of Trump’s base was additionally a pure dwelling for his personal.
The governor tore into Trump an excellent bit within the final debate earlier than Iowa, asking, “why he wants to build a $1 billion-plus, big, beautiful new FBI building right in the heart of the swamp in Washington, D.C.”
On abortion, DeSantis mentioned of Trump, “He owes it to you here in Iowa to explain this change he’s had in his positioning.”
That was in all probability in reference to Trump calling the six-week abortion ban sought by some states, together with Florida, ” a horrible factor and a horrible mistake.”
On the pandemic, DeSantis mentioned of Trump, “I think it’s fine to criticize Donald Trump, and I know the media brings this up a lot. But you know who else deserves to be criticized? The people that violated the Constitution during COVID.”
DeSantis mentioned on the time that “If Trump is the nominee, it’s going to be about January 6, legal issues, criminal trials.”
“The Democrats and the media would love to run with that,” he added.
This now turns into a two particular person race, with all eyes on New Hampshire.
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