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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2024 presidential ambitions have come to an end. On Sunday, he suspended his campaign and issued at times rhetoric, despite his strong endorsement of Donald Trump.
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, which will be held on Tuesday.
DeSantis withdrew and threw his support behind Trump in a video posted on X, the same platform where he began his bid for the White House. (Unfortunately, with a false quote.)
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DeSantis exits
“Now, after finishing second in Iowa, we have prayed and deliberated about the path forward,” DeSantis said on X.
The governor continued: “If there is anything I can do to achieve a positive outcome, such as more campaign stops and more interviews, I will do it.” “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 will suspend my campaign today,” DeSantis announced.
He acknowledged that Trump, whom he viciously attacked during the primaries, was the clear choice for the majority of Republican voters.
“It's clear to me that the majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance. They've watched his presidency falter because of relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using the law to this day to attack him,” he said.
I've had disagreements with him, such as over the coronavirus pandemic, and his promotion of Anthony Fauci, where Trump has a lead over current incumbent Joe Biden. This is a clear.
DeSantis then stood behind his former rival to attack the establishment wing of the party, represented by Nikki Haley: “He has our support because we cannot go back to the old guard Republicanism of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warm corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
In the Iowa caucus last week, DeSantis and Haley came in a distant second and third place behind Trump, respectively.
After Iowa, according to NBC News, “Since finishing 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 straight to South Carolina from Iowa, a move apparently intended to strengthen his determination to remain in the race at least until that state’s late-February primary,” the report noted. “But then he was going back and forth between South Carolina and New Hampshire, scheduling events in the Granite State with little warning to supporters and undecided voters who wanted to see him before Tuesday’s primary.”
On Sunday, DeSantis canceled NBC Meet the press His appearance left his supporters wondering what was happening.
Later that day, it became clear.
Some Trump allies saw it coming. “We may be putting Ron DeSantis back in office very soon,” Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz said at a Trump rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Sunday before DeSantis' announcement.
And soon it was.
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DeSantis went after Trump before Iowa
DeSantis was surprisingly aggressive in his criticism of Trump throughout the campaign, despite recognizing that much of Trump's base was also a natural home for his own base.
The governor took a few digs at Trump in the final debate before Iowa, asking, “Why would he want to build a big, beautiful, new, billion-dollar FBI building in the heart of the swamp in Washington, D.C.”
Regarding abortion, DeSantis said of Trump: “He owes it to you here in Iowa to explain this change in his position.”
This may have been a reference to Trump's description of the six-week abortion ban sought by some states, including Florida, as “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”
Regarding the pandemic, DeSantis said of Trump: “I think it's fine to criticize Donald Trump, and I know the media brings that up a lot. But do you know who deserves criticism? People who violated the Constitution during the Coronavirus.
“If Trump is the nominee, it will be January 6th, legal issues, criminal trials,” DeSantis said at the time.
“Democrats and the media want to deal with that,” he added.
This is now a two-person race, with the focus on New Hampshire.
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