Ron DeSantis Out!

Drudge mocks Florida men.

The last stand for the Republican Party's anti-Trump nominees now rest on former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley.

It is over for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.

The far right Republican who struggled throughout the campaign announced he will suspend his presidential campaign and endorse former president Donald J. Trump.

“I am today suspending my campaign,” DeSantis said in a video announcing the move.

The governor added that he is endorsing Trump over Haley.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

- Winston Churchill pic.twitter.com/ECoR8YeiMm

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) January 21, 2024

“It’s clear a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” DeSantis said. “They watched his presidency get stymied. While I’ve had disagreements with Donald Trump such as on the coronavirus pandemic, Trump is superior to the current incumbent Joe Biden. That is clear. I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge. He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”

DeSantis’ rise to presidential contender was built on his transformation of Florida into a laboratory for conservative policies once considered fringe ideas in modern politics. But as he’s offered to bring that same vision to the rest of the country, his culture-war agenda in Florida has failed to persuade voters outside of his home state that he’s the right person to lead the country.

“DeSantis wants to fight it in the courtrooms, in the schools — he wants to fight the ‘good fight,’ I think,” said Matthew Albion, 19, of Dover, as he waited to see former President Donald Trump at a rally in Concord on Friday night. “But I’m not sure it’s the right way to go about this. It’s also going to alienate half the country.”

Ron and Casey DeSantis with their children.

After notching a distant second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses last week, DeSantis is poised to do even worse in New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Tuesday. Polls show Trump in position to win about half the vote, while about a third of voters say they’ll vote for Haley.

The Drudge Report made the splash mocking DeSantis. He a picture of him and it looks kind of like he insinuating he might be gay.

DeSantis had cancelled his New Hampshire campaign stomps and the Dana Bash CNN Town Hall. The Never Back Down SuperPac also folded three days before the DeSantis announcement.

Being like Trump did not help him. Being timid on going after Trump also doomed him.

Not talking to the junk food media with the exception of Fox doomed him.

The far right saw him as an establishment candidate. They completely ignored Trump's failures and his subsequent actions post-presidency. 

It looks like it will be a rematch between an 81-year old Joe Biden and a 78-year old Donald J. Trump.

Two presidents still stuck on the status quo of politics.