Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign on Sunday afternoon ahead of what was expected to be a lackluster showing in New Hampshire. “It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” he said in a video on X.
Read more from Friday on why DeSantis’ campaign fell short:
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Two days before coming in a distant second place in the Iowa caucuses, Ron DeSantis took the stage in his campaign’s West Des Moines headquarters to make a final pitch to the voters he had spent the last year courting. Within the first three minutes of his speech, he had already cited Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 policy, his efforts to ban Chinese citizens from buying land in Florida, school choice policy and teachers unions, his war with Disney over LGBTQ+ rights, George Soros and “ballot harvesting.”