Ron DeSantis’s political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of Trump: ‘You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but if you kiss the ring he’ll say you’re wonderful.’ Well, with just two days to go before the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire, he just endorsed Trump for the presidency in 2024.

This morning, DeSantis campaign staff batted away speculation that he would imminently quit, saying ‘with 100 per cent certainty’ that DeSantis would fight on to the South Carolina primary next month and beyond. Hours later, Ron proved them wrong. ‘While this campaign has ended, the mission continues,’ he said in a video.

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

– Winston Churchill pic.twitter.com/ECoR8YeiMm

His withdrawal from the race should benefit Nikki Haley, now the only serious challenger taking on Trump for the Republican nomination. But not by much. He was polling so low in New Hampshire as to be almost irrelevant and most of his supporters will probably follow Ron and fall into Trumpist line.

The DeSantis campaign will be remembered as a colossal failure. He raised more than $150 million to achieve a distant second in the Iowa Caucuses. It all looked so promising a year ago.

From late 2022, when the Trump-dominated Republican Party underperformed in the midterm elections, to early 2023, Republican voters appeared finally to be suffering from ‘Trump fatigue’. The re-elected Florida governor, Ron DeFuture, as Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post dubbed him, was ideally placed to capitalise.

His backers and strategists believed, with so many Trump-allergic donors behind him, he could easily brush the other Republican wannabes aside and take down the Donald. He

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Ron DeSantis’s political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of Trump: ‘You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but if you kiss the ring he’ll say you’re wonderful.’ Well, with just two days to go before the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire, he just endorsed Trump for the presidency in 2024.

This morning, DeSantis campaign staff batted away speculation that he would imminently quit,........

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