Ron DeSantis withdrew from the 2024 presidential race:
Florida Gov. On Sunday, just two days ahead of the New Hampshire primary, Ron DeSantis withdrew from the 2024 presidential race.
DeSantis admitted in a video posted on social media that he does not have a clear path to victory.
“Now that we finished second in Iowa, we’ve been praying and thinking about how to move forward,” DeSantis said. “If there was anything I could do to achieve a favorable outcome (more campaign stops, more interviews), I would do it. But if we don’t have a clear decision, I would ask my followers to volunteer their time and donate their resources.” “I can’t call it the path to victory.”
“Therefore, today I am suspending my campaign,” he said. “I’m proud to have kept my promises 100 percent and I won’t stop now.”
DeSantis, who followed former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in New Hampshire, said, “It’s clear to me that the majority of Republican voters want to give Donald Trump another chance.”
DeSantis endorsed Trump, saying that he had signed a pledge to support the Republican candidate and that “we cannot go back to the old Republican guard, a new form of warmed-over corporatism, that Nikki represented. Haley can.” “He does.”
While DeSantis was scheduled to meet and greet voters in Manchester, New Hampshire, the event was canceled after he dropped out of the race. DeSantis will be in Tallahassee, Florida, on Sunday, the campaign said in a statement.
DeSantis easily defeated Haley for second place in the Iowa caucuses, by two points, defying polls that had predicted he would finish third.
However, he failed to cut into Trump’s lead, finishing 30 points behind the former president. DeSantis had invested heavily in the state, and Trump’s leadership raised questions about whether Florida’s governor had the ability to survive Trump.
DeSantis ran on a strong conservative agenda. Some of his campaign proposals for the president-elect include sending troops to the southern border to use force against drug cartels, increasing parental supervision in schools, fighting critical race theory and “failed elites.” .
DeSantis previously said he wouldn’t be Trump’s vice president if he was offered it.
Florida’s governor rebuked Trump several times during the campaign, accusing the former president of failing to fulfill his 2016 and 2020 campaign promises, such as building a wall along the southern border of the United States. He also accused Trump of diverting attention from his four criminal indictments, the investigation into the Jan.
Haley addressed a crowd in Saybrook, New Hampshire, shortly after learning that DeSantis had dropped out of the 2024 race. He’s been a good governor and we wish him the best.” Haley said to applause from the crowd gathered at the Brown Lobster Pound.