Ron DeSantis has introduced his choice to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. He’s now throwing his help behind Donald Trump.
On Sunday (January 21), the Florida governor declared the information through a video message.
Ron DeSantis Drops Out Of Presidential Race
He diligently spoke concerning the choice, stating:
“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 good final result, extra marketing campaign stops, extra interviews, I might do it. However I can’t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their sources. We don’t have a transparent path to victory. Accordingly, I’m in the present day suspending my marketing campaign.”
DeSantis acknowledged it was evident {that a} majority of Republican main voters have been in favor of giving Trump one other likelihood.
He endorsed Trump, regardless of his earlier criticisms of the ex-President, expressing his need not to return to the “previous Republican guard” that Nikki Haley represents.
In DeSanti’s eyes, Trump’s remaining GOP rival was worse. He criticized Haley’s illustration of the previous Republican guard and expressed his need for a recent strategy within the get together.
He described his contender as “a repackaged type of warmed-over corporatism.”
“It’s clear to me {that a} majority of Republican main voters need to give Donald Trump one other likelihood,” he continued.
“He has my endorsement as a result of we will’t return to the previous Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged type of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
🚨 Ron Desantis has dropped out of the Presidential race and endorses Trump for President
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— CatTheGreat (@CatTheGreat_) January 21, 2024
The DeSantis Marketing campaign Ran Into A number of Points Throughout Its Run
Following his second place within the Iowa caucuses earlier this week, the DeSantis marketing campaign reportedly despatched blended indicators to voters.
It led to confusion concerning the governor’s intentions for the remainder of the marketing campaign.
Having initially seen Iowa as a possible stronghold, DeSantis was understandably dissatisfied when he solely managed to narrowly beat Haley for second place within the state.
This was thought-about a blow to the governor, who had invested loads of time and sources into his Iowa marketing campaign, per NBC Information.
Moreover, regardless of elevating $8.2 million inside 24 hours of launching, the marketing campaign shortly bumped into hassle resulting from excessive employees prices and excessive fundraising expectations.
Over three dozen employees members have been subsequently let go by July 2023, per Bloomberg.
Having ended his efforts to make it to the White Home, DeSantis now has two years remaining in his second and ultimate time period because the governor of Florida.
His exit from the race marks the tip of a journey that got here with important challenges, victories, and presumable classes.
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