Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended his 2024 presidential marketing campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
DeSantis introduced in a video posted to social media forward of Tuesday’s New Hampshire major.
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 simply minutes earlier than that he would drop out and endorse Trump within the coming days.
The report cited “people briefed on the campaign’s conversations.”
“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 discussions are fluid, with the governor and his wife, Casey, as the final decision-makers, but one possibility is to leave the race before voting starts in New Hampshire on Tuesday to avoid an embarrassing third-place finish,” the report states.
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 seen that DeSantis had cleared his marketing campaign calendar over the weekend.
DeSantis got here in second in Iowa, after Trump, and earlier than Haley — however the former South Carolina governor is predicted to carry out higher in New Hampshire, which is extra liberal.
A poll performed forward of the Iowa caucuses by NBC Information, the Des Moines Register, and Iowa pollster Selzer & Co. discovered that Haley supporters in Iowa are twice as prone to vote for Joe Biden as they’re Donald Trump, ought to she not win the Republican nomination.
The pollsters requested seemingly 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?”
Throughout the board, simply 11 % of Republican caucus-goes throughout the board stated they’d flip and vote for Biden if Trump was the nominee. Trying solely at Haley supporters, that quantity jumped to a whopping 43 %.
Simply 23 % of Haley’s supporters stated they’d vote for Trump over Biden.
In distinction, 64 % of DeSantis supporters stated that they’d vote for Trump if he was the nominee.
NBC News experiences, “These new findings from the latest NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of Iowa further illustrate the degree to which Haley is bringing in support from independents, Democrats and Republicans who have been uneasy with Trump’s takeover of the GOP. Fully half of her Iowa caucus supporters are independents or crossover Democrats, according to the survey results. Overall, Haley took 20% for second place in the survey, compared to 48% for Trump.”
“The poll also shows three-quarters of caucusgoers believing Trump can defeat Biden despite the former president’s legal challenges. But again, a majority of Haley’s supporters think it will be nearly impossible for Trump to win,” the report added.
In 2019, Haley was elected to Boeing’s board of administrators months after leaving her put up within the Trump administration. On the time, she had a internet value lower than $1 million.
“Post her tenure, reports surfaced that Haley boosted her fortune eight-fold — to $8 million — after leaving the Trump administration,” the New York Post reported on the time.
Quickly after, the previous UN ambassador bought a $2.4 million waterfront property on Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
