Florida Governor Ron DeSantis throws in the towel.
The Republican candidate has found himself powerless to stop the rise of Donald Trump and has announced in a video his withdrawal from the primaries for the presidential elections.
“Today I suspend my campaign.
“I am proud to have kept 100% of my promises and I am not going to stop,” she says.
“Now, it's clear to me that the majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” he adds.
“Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden.
That's clear.
I signed a pledge to support the Republican candidate and I will honor that pledge.
He has my support because we cannot return to the old Republican guard of yesteryear,” he says.
“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
DeSantis' withdrawal comes just two days before the New Hamshire primary, in which his prospects were dismal.
According to the latest survey published this Sunday by CNN, the voting intention in this State was 6%, light years away from Donald Trump's 50% and Nikki Haley's 39%.
In national polls, the governor of Florida was about 50 points behind Trump and had fallen behind the former governor of South Carolina.
A year ago, when DeSantis entered the campaign, he appeared as a formidable rival to Trump.
Early primary polls suggested he was in a strong position to challenge the former president, especially after his runaway success in re-election as governor of Florida in November 2022.
DeSantis soon collided squarely with reality.
He got the campaign off to a bad start with an ad plagued by technical glitches and then failed to withstand Trump's attacks nor was he able to stand out in the debates between candidates.
He lost the Iowa
caucuses
to Trump by 30 percentage points , which he had promised to win and which favored him because it was a conservative and religious state, and he had no chance in New Hampshire either.
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