DeSantis drops out of the Republican primary and endorses Trump

Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantisannounced this Sunday that he was withdrawing from the primaries for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed the candidacy of the former president. Donald Trump (2017-2021).

With his withdrawal, internal conflicts in Republican Party We are talking about two candidates: former President Trump and the former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.

“We don’t have a clear path to victory. That’s why I’m suspending my campaign today,” De Santis explained in a video posted on social media, with the decisive New Hampshire primary two days away.

In his message, he assured that “it is clear that the majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance.”

DeSantis said he had “disagreements” with Trump, but confirmed that he is a much better option than the current president, Joe Biden.

“You have my support because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of years past,” said the governor, who attacked Haley because he considers her a representative of “corporatism” and concessions to an “awakened” (progressive) ideology.

DeSantis, Florida’s governor since 2019 and a representative of the party’s hardline wing, launched his candidacy last March, when polls put him as the only one capable of defeating Trump in the primaries, but his image has been falling. last year.

In the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, the first meeting of the Republican race, De Santis came in second, behind Trump and ahead of Haley.

However, polls put him in third place, far behind his two rivals, in the crucial primary New Hampshirewhich will take place next Tuesday.

Namely, on Saturday, the governor resigned from the campaign in that federal state in the northeast of the country and canceled several interviews that he planned to give to American television this Sunday.

Although Trump is the heavy favorite in the primaries, Nikki Haley threw herself into the campaign in New Hampshire to close the gap and establish herself as an alternative to Trump within the party.