Posted on 01/21/2024 12:39:15 PM PST by conservative98
The Governor is backing the former President after all.
Ron DeSantis is out of the presidential race and is endorsing Donald Trump.
In a video released Sunday, the Republican candidate suspended his campaign, after a distant second place finish in Iowa, an expected even more distant third place in the Granite State, and an uncertain path for delegates ahead.
“Now, following our second place finish in Iowa, we’ve prayed and deliberated on the way forward. If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it. But I can’t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don’t have a clear path to victory accordingly. I am today suspending my campaign.”
The Governor’s exit makes the GOP contest a two-person race between Nikki Haley and Trump, who DeSantis endorsed without reservation.
“Now, it’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance. They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance and they see Democrats using lawfare to this day to attack him.”
“While I’ve had disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of Anthony Fauci, Trump is superior to the current incumbent Joe Biden,” DeSantis said.
“I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee and I will honor that pledge. He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican Guard of yesteryear: A repackaged form of warmed over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents. The days of putting Americans last of kowtowing to large corporations of caving to woke ideology are over.”
DeSantis’ effective exit from the race comes after a cycle that launched with great hype that went underfulfilled.
The Florida Governor’s glitch-filled kickoff on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk, an alternative to a more conventional launch at a baseball field in DeSantis’ hometown of Dunedin, was a metaphor for a campaign that arrayed more than $82 million of seed money transferred to his super PAC from his former state PAC, an effort that promised a 50-state strategy to clear the field, but did not count on the enduring popularity of the former President.
The Governor embarked on a strategy to get endorsements from state legislators in early states, such as Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and visited many of these places, finding connections between their conservative governance and that enjoyed in Florida. But despite heavy spending and lots of travel, he didn’t get traction in polls.
He expressed regrets in recent weeks, suggesting that Trump’s legal issues derailed the race, and saying recently he should have done more “corporate media.”
There will be plenty of time for him to figure out what went wrong, but for now, the Governor will return to the job he was elected to perform.
Governor @RonDeSantis has dropped out and endorsed @realDonaldTrump.
I would like to thank Ron for doing the right thing.
It is now time to come together so we can defeat Joe Biden.
TRUMP 2024!— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) January 21, 2024
Now it’s time for Nikki.
Excellent!
Does this mean that Trump is deep state since he just got endorsed by Meatball DeSoros?
Dear Florida, please keep him there this time.
Trump 2024
Me too! I would have liked him more if he never got in the race in the first place.
Good move. We are going to see RDS later. This was not his time to run, he will be better off, Florida will be better and he will eventually have his day.
The Deep State’s plan to use DeSantis to take Trump out has failed. Now Plan B is to push Nimarata, and that will fail too.
No, that means DeSantos would dance with the devil if it gave him a chance to survive politically. That won't work either.☺
I hope he reboots and comes back better prepared in 2028.
In 1988, Bill Clinton gave one of the worst conventions speeches ever. We was long (twice as long as his allotted 15 min) boring, meandering and unfocused. His only applause line was “in conclusion.”
You can come back from flopping in politics, but you have to understand your weaknesses and correct them. DeSantis needs to take a long look in the mirror and clean the deadwood from his team.
Too late sucka…
Ron, I once saw a political future for you. Sad…
Nimrata thinks by hanging around she’ll be next up in 2028.
Dream on.
DeSantis needs to go back to Florida, then shut up and lead. At least he didn’t endorse Nimmy.
Did Deep State order DeSantis to endorse Trump can call Haley a warmed-over corporatist?
Too little-too late.
“Does this mean that Trump is deep state since he just got endorsed by Meatball DeSoros?”
No, it means that DeSantis is a politician and he makes that decision based on...
There you go with your fancy boy logic and intellectual consistency.
She’ll hang in there until the money runs out. Now the establishment/swamp will fund her
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