“Today I suspend my campaign. “I am proud to have fulfilled 100% of my promises and I am not going to stop,” said the president through a video published this day on his social network account “X.”
DeSantis withdrew from the presidential elections and expressed his support for Trump
Explaining the reasons, DeSantis said he was clear that “the majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” who he said is “superior to the current president, “Joe Biden.”
Regarding his support for the magnate and former president of the United States, the governor remarked: “I signed a commitment to support the Republican candidate and I will fulfill that commitment. “You have my support because we cannot return to the old Republican guard of yesteryear.”
DeSantis had been widely considered a leading contender for the 2024 Republican nomination and natural heir to trump due to his combative style and deeply conservative views. In early 2023, he led several head-to-head polls against Trump.
But the support of the governor of Florida has been declining for several months, due to a flawed campaign strategy, his apparent uneasy relationship with voters in the election campaign and to the hitherto unbreakable control of trump over much of the party’s base.
The end of DeSantis’ candidacy means that the former US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley She is now the last Republican in the race with possibilities – although distant – of denying Trump the nomination. The winner of the Republican nomination race will face President Joe Biden, the likely Democratic nominee, in the November general election.
DeSantis made the decision to withdraw from the campaign just days before the New Hampshire primary, where polls predicted a dismal result. According to the latest figures, the governor was on track to obtain 6% of the vote, while Trump is presumed to reach 50% and Haley 39%.
Unforced errors and a fight against the Republican favorite
More than 70% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Trump, according to most opinion polls. That put DeSantis in a position where he had to appeal to voters who still admired Trump, as well as those who passionately detested him.
DeSantis failed on both counts. He never successfully articulated the majority of supporters of trump why he was a better choice, while the republicans Those seeking to get rid of the former president divided their votes between several candidates. Haley, In particular, she has emerged as the favorite among moderate Republicans as the field has consolidated.
When DeSantis differed from trump In politics, it was almost always to defend a more conservative position. He signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida in April, which he finally embraced on the campaign trail, even though it made some donors and moderate Republicans wary.
DeSantis opposed additional U.S. military aid to Ukraine and took punitive action against Walt Disney Co. after the company spoke out against Florida legislation limiting discussion of gender and sexuality in classrooms.
The fight against disney was one that pro-business critics within the party said DeSantis I didn’t need to release.
When will the elections be in the US?
trump days ago he achieved his victory in the Iowa Republican primaries. The tycoon won all counties except one and won 20 delegates with a view to the designation of the Republican candidate in mid-2024.
The candidate who achieves the designation will face the general elections on November 5 to the Democratic candidate, who will almost certainly be the president Joe Biden.
“The big night will be in November, when we recover our country”the former president told his followers last night, who will seek to return to power. White House after the defeat against Biden in 2020, in elections in which he assures that there were fraud.
Source: Ambito
