Posted on 01/21/2024 12:24:27 PM PST by bitt
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
DeSantis announced in a video posted to social media ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
The governor quoted Winston Churchill, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill pic.twitter.com/ECoR8YeiMm
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) January 21, 2024
Bloomberg had reported just minutes before that he would drop out and endorse Trump in the coming days.
The report cited “people briefed on the campaign’s conversations.”
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“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his top aides are having internal discussions about when and how he should drop out of the 2024 presidential race, according to people briefed on the campaign’s conversations.”
The report continued, “New polling from CNN and the University of New Hampshire shows DeSantis earning just 6% of the state’s Republican vote, whereas Trump has 50% and Haley has 39%.”
Many on social media noticed that DeSantis had cleared his campaign calendar over the weekend.
DeSantis came in second in Iowa, after Trump, and before Haley — but the former South Carolina governor is expected to perform better in New Hampshire, which is more liberal.
A poll conducted ahead of the Iowa caucuses by NBC News, the Des Moines Register, and Iowa pollster Selzer & Co. found that Haley supporters in Iowa are twice as likely to vote for Joe Biden as they are Donald Trump, should she not win the Republican nomination.
The pollsters asked likely Iowa caucus-goers, “If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in the general election in November, would you vote for him, vote for Joe Biden, vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., or vote for some other third-party candidate?”
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Well, you can’t say he can’t read the writing on the wall...
Heh, I finally watched a DeSantis speech...part of it anyway.
Way to dump on your home state team in the playoffs, announces at the start of the Lion - Tampa Bay Football game.
Wow. You people are insufferable.
Better luck next time, Ron.
Good for DeSantis. I’ve always been a Trump guy- 100%- but the DeSantis hate on this site made me sick. Good to see he did the right thing.
It’s going to take some work to rebuild his reputation but he can do it in the next 4 years.
What a colossally stupid idea to run in the first place. He should never listen to the idiots who advised him ever again.
You are a typical Trump supporter, which is why I expect that he and the USA will lose in November.
His mistakes were running this year, against Donald and letting the Bush / Cheyney Rinos grab the reins.
Now, do more good things for Florida and try again in 4 years.
That was the whole deal. The corrupt insiders wanted to get rid of Trump. DeSantos was a hail Mary which failed right out of the gate.
Now it’s tim3 to get to work on that massive ballot harvesting operation.
Still relentlessly spewing propaganda.
Just Nikki left.
If she drops, do you think the GOP will cancel primaries and endorse Trump?
Good. Glad he’s come to his senses and is back to being America’s best governor. Now he needs to publicly kick the Bush crowd to the curb before they do any more damage to him.
DeSantos may have said that he endorsed President Trump, but his deep state Bush League former backers obviously told him to get out of the “race” right now in an obvious last ditch effort to help Haley.
We are going to lose in November no matter who the nominee is because demographics is destiny.
it was a very lukewarm, back-handed endorsement, though ...
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