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Ron DeSantis Is Lost In The Details

“I don’t know that he’s fully come to terms with the fact that if you’re running for president, voters want to know who you are,” one of DeSantis’ former House colleagues from Florida said.

Ron DeSantis
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis came in a distant second in the Iowa caucuses behind Donald Trump. Jeffrey Collins/AP Photo

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.”