As of: January 23, 2024, 8:35 a.m
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After his withdrawal, DeSantis now wants to support Trump.
According to current polls, he is well ahead of his rival Nikki Haley.
Update from January 22nd, 11:55 a.m.:
The election campaign is over.
Ron DeSantis is no longer seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 US election. The Florida governor's campaign garnished the news of his withdrawal with an alleged quote from former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to keep going that counts,” DeSantis wrote on Twitter above the video in which he announced his resignation.
It's just a shame that Churchill apparently never said these words.
At least that’s what the “International Churchill Society” makes clear on its website.
The news portal Forbes
first reported about it
.
The company is absolutely sure that it is not a quote from Churchill.
It is quite possible that DeSantis meant another quote from the legendary statesman: “Success requires ever greater effort.”
Ron DeSantis is withdrawing from the Republican primary campaign for the US election.
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Ron DeSantis gives up and gives Trump a boost in the polls
Update from January 22nd, 11:21 a.m.:
According to the latest polls from
CNN
, Donald Trump is ahead of his rival Nikki Haley in the race for the primary election victory in the US state of News Hampshire - by a significant margin.
Trump is said to be assured of around 50 percent of the Republican vote, while the former governor of South Carolina can only count on 39 percent of supporters.
In the last CNN poll at the beginning of January, Trump's lead wasn't that big.
The ratio was 39 percent to 32 percent for the ex-president.
DeSantis throws in the US election campaign - Trump and Haley with their first reaction
Update from January 22nd, 7:00 a.m.:
After Ron DeSantis dropped out of the Republican candidacy for the 2024 US election, the remaining candidates are now reacting.
It is now time “for all Republicans to rally behind President Trump” to defeat incumbent Joe Biden in the November presidential election and end his “disastrous presidency,” Trump’s campaign team said.
The ex-president himself attacked his rival Haley as a “globalist” during a campaign appearance in New Hampshire.
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Haley, in turn, told supporters in the state in the northeast of the United States that the field of applicants now only consists of “a guy and a lady.”
Voters will have to decide whether they want “more of the same or something new,” the former UN ambassador added.
The former governor of the state of South Carolina is hoping for the votes of all those conservative voters who have had enough of Trump.
US election campaign: Trump competitor DeSantis gives up
First report:
Washington DC – Republican and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race for the US presidency on Sunday evening.
DeSantis announced his decision in a video on the platform X (formerly Twitter).
After the recent primary election in the US state of Iowa, he no longer sees a “clear path to victory” and is therefore withdrawing his presidential candidacy.
US election campaign: DeSantis drops out of presidential race and supports Trump
DeSantis further stated that he wanted to support former President Donald Trump as the election campaign continued.
The majority of Republican voters in the primaries want to give them another chance, said the 45-year-old.
DeSantis added that he had "some differences of opinion" with Trump, for example with regard to the corona pandemic, but the ex-president is "better than the current incumbent Joe Biden."
After Trump's success in Iowa - DeSantis quits
Trump confirmed his favorite status for his party's presidential nomination on Monday with a clear victory in the first Republican primary in Iowa.
He won 51 percent of the vote, well ahead of DeSantis, who came in second with 21 percent.
He was followed by former US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, who received 19 percent of the vote.
The next primary election will take place on Tuesday in the state of New Hampshire.
The winner of the nationwide Republican primary will then challenge incumbent Biden of the Democratic Party in the presidential election on November 5th.