Republican presidential prospect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a marketing campaign event at the Chrome Horse Saloon on January 14, 2024 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday, two days before the New Hampshire primary.
“If there was everything I could do to make a favorable end result — more campaign stops, much more interviews — I would do it, but I won’t be able to inquire our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their means if we don’t have a crystal clear path to victory,” DeSantis explained in a Sunday social media write-up. “Appropriately, I am right now suspending my campaign.”
“Trump is remarkable to the latest incumbent Joe Biden. That is crystal clear,” DeSantis said. “I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee and I will honor that pledge. He has my endorsement simply because we are not able to go again to the old Republican Guard of yesteryear, a repackaged type of warmed-in excess of corporatism that Nikki Haley signifies.”
The Trump marketing campaign claimed in a Sunday statement it was “honored” to get DeSantis’ endorsement, alongside with “so a lot of other previous presidential candidates.”
DeSantis joins a escalating checklist of defunct 2024 candidates, like North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who endorsed Trump immediately after suspending their strategies.
At a New Hampshire rally Sunday evening, Trump congratulated Ron for bowing out and supplying him his endorsement.
“As you know, he still left the marketing campaign path nowadays at 3 p.m. and in so executing, he was really gracious and he endorsed me, so I recognize that,” Trump claimed. “I also seem ahead to functioning with Ron and every person else to defeat crooked Joe Biden.”
I appreciate that. And I also search forward to performing with Ron and all people else to defeat crooked Joe Biden.
Minutes soon after he announced his exit from the 2024 race, DeSantis canceled a marketing campaign occasion he had scheduled in New Hampshire. The marketing campaign reported that he would alternatively keep on being in Tallahassee, Florida.
Despite proclaiming a victory at the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15 exactly where he edged out previous Haley for 2nd spot, DeSantis has seriously lagged his opponents in New Hampshire.
DeSantis was polling at 6% in the Granite State, when compared to Trump’s 50% and Haley’s 39%, in accordance to a CNN/University of New Hampshire poll performed in between Jan. 16 and 19.
In reaction to DeSantis’ announcement, Haley reported the GOP key contest is now a “two-human being race.”
Considering the fact that Iowa, the DeSantis marketing campaign has appeared to be winding down. The professional-DeSantis super PAC, Hardly ever Again Down, laid off personnel before this week and DeSantis canceled a number of media appearances he experienced scheduled Sunday.
DeSantis’ exit marks the stop of a marketing campaign that originally confirmed assure but has been rife with inner drama and strategic blunders. Experiences of infighting seasoned nearly the total timeline of the DeSantis campaign and team were being frequently quoted as obtaining misplaced religion in the campaign perfectly before it ended.
Starting Monday, the Florida governor will return to his day job where he has faced criticism for neglecting his duties in pursuit of the presidency.
“Our governor roams the political entire world (Florida be damned) trying to get the presidential nomination,” a Florida resident wrote in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune before in January.
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