The governor of the state of Florida, Ron De Santis, announced this Sunday, January 21, that he is leaving the race for the White House. De Santis, who became former President Donald Trump's main opponent for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States, resigned from the candidacy after a drop in his popularity and coming second in the first race, held in Iowa, 30 points per under the former president. In announcing his departure, De Santis also communicated his decision to support Trump's candidacy.
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“It is clear to me that the majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,“said the governor of Florida (USA), Ron DeSantis, announcing this Sunday, January 21, that he is abandoning the race for the Republican presidential nomination and giving his support to the candidacy of the former US president.
With his departure, the internal race of the Republican Party is now between two candidates: former President Trump and former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.
Ron DeSantis made the announcement through a video published on his that party to the White House.
Although he had a promising start in internal polls, eventually gaining an advantage over Trump among conservative voters in early 2023, DeSantis' campaign was losing momentum after his legal battle against Disney, as well as his anti-rights positions with the LGBTQ+ community and against abortion, which cost him popularity among moderate Republicans, his main objective in the electorate.
In addition to explicitly expressing his support for Donald Trump, the still governor of Florida also launched indirect attacks on the only remaining candidate to prevent Trump's Republican candidacy, Nikki Haley, whom he accused of representing “the old Republican guard of yesteryear.” warning voters that they should not return to the “canned corporatism” that DeSantis said would be behind Haley's campaign.
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