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 main, 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 stated on X, “Now, following our second-place end in Iowa, we’ve prayed and deliberated on the way in which ahead.”
“If there was something I might do to provide a positive end result, extra marketing campaign stops, extra interviews, I might do it,” the governor continued. “However I can’t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their assets. We don’t have a transparent path to victory.”
“Accordingly, I’m as we speak suspending my marketing campaign,” DeSantis declared.
He acknowledged that Trump, whom he has viciously attacked throughout the main, was the clear selection of the vast majority of Republican voters.
“It’s clear to me {that a} majority of Republican main voters wish to give Donald Trump one other probability. They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, they usually see Democrats utilizing lawfare to today to assault him.” he stated.
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 bought behind his former rival to assault the institution wing of the celebration, represented by Nikki Haley: “He has my endorsement as a result of we will’t return to the outdated Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged type of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”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, according to NBC Information, “Since coming in second in Iowa on Monday, DeSantis’ marketing campaign has despatched combined alerts to voters, donors and lower-level aides, creating confusion about his intentions for the remainder of the marketing campaign.”
“He went on to South Carolina from Iowa, a transfer apparently designed to bolster his insistence that he would keep within the race a minimum of till that state’s late-February main,” the report famous. “However then he bounced forwards and backwards between South Carolina and New Hampshire, scheduling occasions within the Granite State with little warning for supporters and undecided voters who wished to see him earlier than Tuesday’s main.”
On Sunday, DeSantis canceled an NBC Meet the Press look and left his supporters questioning what was taking place.
Later that day, it turned clear.
Some Trump allies noticed it coming. Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz stated at a Trump rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on Sunday earlier than DeSantis’s announcement, “We would get Ron DeSantis again onside fairly quickly.”
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 house for his personal.
The governor tore into Trump a very good bit within the final debate earlier than Iowa, asking, “why he desires to construct a $1 billion-plus, massive, stunning new FBI constructing proper within the coronary heart of the swamp in Washington, D.C.”
On abortion, DeSantis said of Trump, “He owes it to you right here in Iowa to clarify this alteration he’s had in his positioning.”
That was most likely 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 stated of Trump, “I believe it’s superb to criticize Donald Trump, and I do know the media brings this up rather a lot. However who else deserves to be criticized? The those who violated the Structure throughout COVID.”
DeSantis stated on the time that “If Trump is the nominee, it’s going to be about January 6, authorized points, legal trials.”
“The Democrats and the media would like 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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