2024-01-22 00:32:00
After months of weakening his support, the governor of the state of Florida, Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this Sunday. In addition, he announced that he will support former President Donald Trump, who appears to be the favorite in the party elections, ensuring that “the majority of Republican primary voters want to give him another chance.”
In a video posted on the social network caucus – assembly of electoral delegates – of the state of Iowa, could not “ask” its supporters “to volunteer their time and donate their resources” without a “clear path to victory.” “Consequently, today I am suspending my campaign.”, he added. Even this weekend he had already canceled all of his television interviews, foreshadowing his decision.
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“It is clear to me that the majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance”DeSantis explained in the recording, pointing out that he had differences with the former president, especially due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, he made explicit his support for the former president “because we cannot return to the old Republican guard of yesteryear or a repackaged form of overheated corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
At an event in Seabrook, New Hampshire, Haley had said earlier that DeSantis “ran a great race, he’s been a good governor” and that “we wish him the best.” “That being said, there is now one man and one woman left,” he continued. “This comes down to ‘what do you want.’ Do you want more of the same or do you want something new?“he added.
DeSantis’ withdrawal comes less than two days before the New Hampshire primary, where Polls placed him far behind former President Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.. In that sense, his decision leaves Haley alone, with few votes, between Trump and the nomination as the Republican Party candidate in the US presidential elections in November.
For his part, the former president, immersed in several legal proceedings against him, swept Iowa last Tuesday, where 51% of Republican voters elected him against DeSantis, who only obtained 21%, and Haley, with 19%. %. In a statement, Trump said he was “honored” by DeSantis’ endorsement and called on Republicans to unite around him. dismissing Haley as “the candidate of the globalists and the Democrats”.
In her own note, Haley warned that the United States “is not a country of coronations.” “So far, only one state has voted. Half of their votes were for Donald Trump, and the other half were not (…). Voters deserve a say in whether we go down the Trump-Biden path again, or If we go down a new conservative path“, held.
The political career and initiatives of Ron DeSantis
Even though Trump presented himself as the favorite, many Republicans had pinned their hopes on DeSantis, who at only 45 years old was perceived by some as a rising star on the right. However, his candidacy, announced in late May, had difficulty establishing itself as a threat to the former president.
DeSantis, a former Navy officer criticized for his lack of charisma, was elected governor of Florida in 2018 after receiving valuable support from Trump. Since then, He frequently distanced himself from the former president and gained notoriety for a series of far-right positions. in education, immigration and LGBT+ issues. In this regard, the official appears almost daily in the national media to engage in cultural wars against “progressive” politicians, companies and professors whom he accuses of imposing his ideology on Americans.
His most notable initiatives included allowing Floridians carrying concealed weapons without a permit and imposing one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. He also joined the governors of other Republican states in sending emigrants to Democratic cities in the northern and eastern United States.
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