Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a campaign occasion on 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 glide and endorsed entrance-runner Donald Trump on Sunday, two days forward of the New Hampshire vital.
“If there modified into anything I could perchance prevail in to model to take into accounta good — extra campaign stops, extra interviews — I would prevail in it, nonetheless I will not query our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their sources if we plot no longer dangle a definite course to victory,” DeSantis said in a Sunday social media put up. “Accordingly, I’m this day suspending my campaign.”
“Trump is superior to essentially the most trendy incumbent Joe Biden. That is clear,” DeSantis said. “I signed a pledge to improve the Republican nominee and I will honor that pledge. He has my endorsement on story of we can’t return to the former Republican Guard of yesteryear, a repackaged derive of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
The Trump campaign said in a Sunday statement it modified into “honored” to receive DeSantis’ endorsement, alongside with “so many different worn presidential candidates.”
DeSantis joins a rising record of defunct 2024 candidates, love North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who endorsed Trump after suspending their campaigns.
At a New Hampshire rally Sunday evening, Trump congratulated Ron for bowing out and giving him his endorsement.
“As you understand, he left the campaign inch this day at 3 p.m. and in so doing, he modified into very gracious and he endorsed me, so I love that,” Trump said. “I also seek forward to working with Ron and all people else to defeat twisted Joe Biden.”
I love that. And I also seek forward to working with Ron and all people else to defeat twisted Joe Biden.
Minutes after he announced his exit from the 2024 glide, DeSantis canceled a campaign occasion he had scheduled in New Hampshire. The campaign said that he would as an different stay in Tallahassee, Florida.
Despite claiming a victory on the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15 where he edged out worn Haley for 2nd location, DeSantis has severely lagged his opponents in New Hampshire.
DeSantis modified into polling at 6% in the Granite Hiss, when put next with Trump’s 50% and Haley’s 39%, in retaining with a CNN/College of New Hampshire poll conducted between Jan. 16 and 19.
In line with DeSantis’ announcement, Haley said the GOP vital contest is now a “two-person glide.”
Since Iowa, the DeSantis campaign has perceived to be winding down. The pro-DeSantis tremendous PAC, Never Relief Down, laid off group earlier this week and DeSantis canceled a whole lot of media appearances he had scheduled Sunday.
DeSantis’ exit marks the cease of a campaign that on the foundation confirmed promise nonetheless has been rife with internal drama and strategic blunders. Stories of infighting seasoned on the subject of the entire timeline of the DeSantis campaign and group had been in total quoted as having misplaced faith in the campaign effectively forward of it ended.
Starting up Monday, the Florida governor will return to his day job where he has confronted criticism for neglecting his responsibilities in pursuit of the presidency.
“Our governor roams the political world (Florida be damned) looking out for the presidential nomination,” a Florida resident wrote in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune earlier in January.
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