Ron DeSantis drops out of race

Ron DeSantis drops out of race
By Terry A. Hurlbut
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) dropped out of the Republican Presidential nomination race today. Now the race really is the two-person race Ambassador Nikki Haley said it was. The other – or rather, first – person in the race is Donald J. Trump. In fact his campaign gave hints of his withdrawal last night. On his way out, he fired a telling Parthian volley at Ambassador Haley and endorsed Trump wholeheartedly.
Ron DeSantis drops the first hints
Video and X influencer Benny Johnson, shortly after noon today, dropped the first hints that Ron DeSantis might be withdrawing.
https://rumble.com/embed/v45sjj3/?pub=4teej
Johnson noted that DeSantis canceled appearances on NBC-TV’s Meet the Press and CNN’s Sunday morning equivalent. He quoted this post by Election Wizard:
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1748841669489721493
Johnson also carried footage of Vivek Ramaswamy calling on Gov. DeSantis and Amb. Haley both to drop out.
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1749118208227909853
Some who replied to Election Wizard suggested then that he intended to “help Nikki’s numbers” – an interesting turn of phrase. Why didn’t that user speculate that DeSantis would endorse Ambassador Haley?
https://twitter.com/The_Weed_Shop/status/1748842838207377665
Then this morning, Election Wizard published a two-post thread quoting NBC as calling the Ron DeSantis campaign “a total failure to launch.”
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1749069832908152954
Note the embedded photo in the second post. It shows the governor’s Iowa campaign office chief solving a jigsaw puzzle in the campaign office for several hours. Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit had more on that jigsaw-puzzle faux pas. Apparently it happened a week before the Iowa Caucuses. Hoft also found this post by Jeff Roe as he abruptly left the campaign last month:
https://twitter.com/jeffroe/status/1736229026895695889
X influencer ALX took a screencap of Ron DeSantis’ upcoming-events page. Note: “No events.”
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1748949031512879474
And then the announcement
Then at 2:57 p.m. EST today, Ron DeSantis made it official:
https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1749159384112845285
Note: that Winston Churchill quote is not authentic. The site CheckYourFact confirmed: the Daily Caller News Foundation investigated the quote and found no record of Churchill saying that. So did the International Churchill Society. This inauthentic quote has been floating around for four years – but why did Ron DeSantis use it?
Nevertheless, DeSantis made his point. He castigated the open border, out-of-control spending, and indoctrination of children. He acknowledged the reality that he does not have the votes to get the nomination. Apparently his distant second-place finish in Iowa forced him to pause and reflect. Then, after announcing the suspension of his campaign, he fired the Parthian volley:
… we can’t go back to the Old Republican Guard of yesteryear – a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism – that Nikki Haley represents.
The reaction to his announcement on X concurred in only one thing: yes, he needed to drop out. Some responders, including some fairly prominent names, were somewhat less than gracious. But one – Jack Posobiec – wanted more:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1749163799679046139
Laura Loomer pledged to blackball any member of the Ron DeSantis campaign who applied for a job with the Trump campaign:
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749165484916818224
Then at 5:43 p.m. EST she actually offered to take over the Ron DeSantis account and three others.
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749201047136956465
One of them is DeSantisWarRoom. She had already noted that the entire staff running that account was on layoff.
Loomer also noted something else: Amb. Haley refuses to drop out.
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749181513432748262
Then at 6:11 p.m. EST, she posted this:
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749208093836079368
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Whither Ron DeSantis – and what happens next?
Presumably Ron DeSantis will return to Florida and go back to governing full-time. Florida, unfortunately, has felt its absence. Not only has it dealt with a natural disaster, but a special election recently flipped a legislative seat to a Democrat. Local pundits blamed the governor’s absence for this.
More to the point, now the race is a two-person race, again as Nikki Haley said. But again, patriotic Americans have no reason to support her. She is a Trojan mare for the Democratic Party – and possibly for the World Economic Forum. Her public statements support no other inference.
New Hampshire holds its primary in two days. After that, South Carolina holds its primary – and Trump can show that Nikki Haley is no one’s “favorite daughter.”
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2024/01/21/foundation/constitution/ron-desantis-drops-out-race/

Benny Johnson’s video with first hints of Ron DeSantis’ exit:
https://rumble.com/v48duzx-did-ron-desantis-just-secretly-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race-overnight.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6

Six signs of DeSantis’ impending withdrawal:
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1748841669489721493
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1749118208227909853
https://twitter.com/The_Weed_Shop/status/1748842838207377665
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1749069832908152954
https://twitter.com/jeffroe/status/1736229026895695889
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1748949031512879474

The withdrawal announcement:
https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1749159384112845285

Jack Posobiec wanting names named:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1749163799679046139

Laura Loomer’s reactions:
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749165484916818224
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749201047136956465
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749181513432748262
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1749208093836079368

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