Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ending his once-promising presidential campaign, which steadily deflated as he struggled to connect with voters and convince Republicans to swap Donald Trump for a younger, more disciplined champion of his ideas.
DeSantis, 45, had seemed to many Republicans like the most viable challenger to Trump after the 2022 midterms, when the governor won reelection by a landslide. But he started to lose ground in polling even before his official campaign launch in May — via a glitchy live chat that neatly embodied the way his grand plans were going awry.
“While this campaign has ended, the mission continues,” DeSantis said in a video released Sunday.The second-term governor echoed Trump’s combative style and “America First” rallying cry while arguing he would be more electable, truer to conservative values and more effective at executing an agenda. He appealed heavily to the party base as someone willing to dig in on polarizing issues and go to battle with critics, the media and companies such as Disney. Struggling to make headway against Trump, he increasingly criticized the former president as “high risk” and “low reward” for the Republican Party.
On the front page I have a post from 6 hours ago saying he’s in it for the long haul, and another one just now saying he ends his run.
That haul wasn’t so long, I guess.
Worst mainstream political candidate ever? He has to be a heavy favorite at least
What a fuckin loser lol
What’s next for Ron? Thai food!
Fucking looser!
This asshole speaking in his concession video about how he loves his role as Florida governor, even though he has been in absentia throughout the campaign.
DeSantis is a perfect example of why that law was on the books in the first place.
As a Floridian, I couldn’t be any happier than I am right now. I sincerely feared DeSantis being the Republican nominee and becoming POTUS than Trump at one point. But knowing that he didn’t have the momentum to fully challenge Trump proved he wasn’t going to be that guy the Republicans wanted to run. I’m still sickened by the fact that he was support in FL, especially from the ‘anti-woke’ crowd that rages over LGBT issues and claiming to be free speech warriors 24/7. Bro has got to go. Florida deserves a better governor and a senate that is progressive.
“There’s one thing in closing we have in common, is neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024”
Gavin Newsom
Drops out only to instantly suck up to Trump…to the surprise of nobody.
In an ideal world you’d think it was the horrible policies that put him in the shitter. In reality it was probably the high heel boots, eating pudding with his fingers and the nickname Meatball Ron.
What an age we live in.
Finally accepted his participation trophy
What a snowflake
The fact is, he’s a humourless, dour, soulless jerk who ran on being even dumber than Trump. Please stop with the “what went wrong”. He was born. That’s what went wrong.
Ron DeSantis was always mini-Trump. He won the governorship of Florida by sucking Trump’s d*ck in the first place. But did Ron think he could win over the cult? There is a reason we call it a cult, because they will do anything for Mango Mussolini, including staging a coup and kiling democracy for him.
What a fucking loser.
He should have accepted that participation trophy. Now he’s spent $100million and only has some high heel boots to show for it.
Go fuck your sister, traitor🇺🇸
$130 million spent to drop out after the first hurdle.
Words cannot describe just how much I fucking despise this man. Florida has never been great, but he has literally destroyed this fucking state probably beyond repair. The book banning, the transphobia, racism, making us pay for him to travel for his stupid fucking book tour and this goddamn campaign. It’s kind of a double-edged sword because on the one hand it’s been satisfying watching him make a complete fool of himself and become such a laughingstock. But now he’s probably gonna come back and try and do even more dumb shit here.
What a fucking spineless coward.
Not for suspending his campaign, but for turning around and endorsing the civilly liable rapist who has 91 felony charges against him.
The Republican Party does not exist. It is the MAGA Party. They’re nothing but extremists that want to overthrow our government.
Every single person saying they are MAGA or “Republican” are no friends of this country or her people.
Register, make sure you’re still registered, and make sure your friends and family are registered!
Your voice matters. If it didn’t matter, you wouldn’t have so many people trying to stop you from voting, or telling you that your vote doesn’t matter.
## ***BE A VOTER!***
Suspect behind the scenes maneuvering here … Haley is anointed by the billionaires as the best hope of heading off 🍑🍑, and I would bet the kingmakers are asking the possible spoilers to fall on their swords. Last chance, make it count!
And endorsed Trump, after everything. What an utter coward lol
And just like that, his political career is over. What an idiot. If he had just waited 4 more years to run after Trump was out of the picture, he could easily have won the GOP nomination as the guy to continue Trump’s legacy or some bullshit like that. He chose to run against Trump while not at all providing a reason for Trump voters to choose him.
Can’t wait for the humiliation photo with Trump. I hate Trump immensely but am constantly amazed that he can humiliate someone and have them crawling back.
Of course, I hope for Trump humiliation in November.
He’s had to crawl on his knees to kiss the ring of the man who called him “Meatball Ron” and spread rumors that he ate pudding with his fingers
Disney’s lawyers: *Looks like Ronnie’s back on the menu boys!*
DeSantis is a bigger piece of trash than Trump. He’s just as crappy a person, but is a few points smarter. He would have been awful and we would have slide into the Handmaiden’s tale faster. Trump we get the Purge faster.
The Republican party has awful candidates. They can say Biden is old, but so is Trump.
immediately crawls up Trump’s ass.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, you fascist scumbag. Good riddance.
Went after woke, went broke
What a chode. Dude has zero personality and thought it was a good idea to go even harder far right. I ghost r/conservatives and they seem to be getting sick of the maga bullshit
Great work. I remember when he was the “scary version of Trump”.
Now he’s seen as an incompetent, uncharismatic, lip-licking, high-heel wearing, finger-pudding-eating wifey’s boy.
Good job, GOP.
Can bully Disney, gay people, Immigrants but can’t bully Trump. Coward.
Nikki Haley will be next to drop out and support Trump. It just seems so demeaning. I realize that Trump is the Republican party at this point. And any Republican that wants to keep their job ..has to kiss Trump.
In the end Ronnie came up a lil short. Even in his high heals.
Just as many of us predicted. What will happen next is Haley will fall well short of Trump in New Hampshire, as he siphons most of DeSantis’s following, and she will too drop out and endorse like the good little pet she is.
I would be willing to bet that Trump is picking DeSantis for VP as well.
Vote for Nikki Haley New Hampshire.
I called this days ago after Iowa. Now the question is what Trump offered him to drop out prior to New Hampshire.
I can’t wait to see the effect this has on Haley and Trump’s counts come Tuesday.
Now he can turn his attention fully on governing Florida. Sucks to be them.
And now he is going to take this loss out on Florida, as he is just that petty.
Awesome. Every freedom loving American should toss a couple of bucks at Nikki Haley now.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ending his once-promising presidential campaign, which steadily deflated as he struggled to connect with voters and convince Republicans to swap Donald Trump for a younger, more disciplined champion of his ideas.
DeSantis, 45, had seemed to many Republicans like the most viable challenger to Trump after the 2022 midterms, when the governor won reelection by a landslide. But he started to lose ground in polling even before his official campaign launch in May — via a glitchy live chat that neatly embodied the way his grand plans were going awry.
“While this campaign has ended, the mission continues,” DeSantis said in a video released Sunday.The second-term governor echoed Trump’s combative style and “America First” rallying cry while arguing he would be more electable, truer to conservative values and more effective at executing an agenda. He appealed heavily to the party base as someone willing to dig in on polarizing issues and go to battle with critics, the media and companies such as Disney. Struggling to make headway against Trump, he increasingly criticized the former president as “high risk” and “low reward” for the Republican Party.
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Good riddance
rip bozo
Aw. What channel is the game on?
Guess he hopes he’ll be Trump’s VP.
On the front page I have a post from 6 hours ago saying he’s in it for the long haul, and another one just now saying he ends his run.
That haul wasn’t so long, I guess.
Worst mainstream political candidate ever? He has to be a heavy favorite at least
What a fuckin loser lol
What’s next for Ron? Thai food!
Fucking looser!
This asshole speaking in his concession video about how he loves his role as Florida governor, even though he has been in absentia throughout the campaign.
Remember: Florida used to require governors to resign before pursuing a presidential campaign, but he had all his GOP bootlickers in ~~Congress~~ Florida’s legislature [change](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/florida-bill-allows-desantis-to-run-for-president-while-governor) the law so that he could run while retaining that office.
DeSantis is a perfect example of why that law was on the books in the first place.
As a Floridian, I couldn’t be any happier than I am right now. I sincerely feared DeSantis being the Republican nominee and becoming POTUS than Trump at one point. But knowing that he didn’t have the momentum to fully challenge Trump proved he wasn’t going to be that guy the Republicans wanted to run. I’m still sickened by the fact that he was support in FL, especially from the ‘anti-woke’ crowd that rages over LGBT issues and claiming to be free speech warriors 24/7. Bro has got to go. Florida deserves a better governor and a senate that is progressive.
“There’s one thing in closing we have in common, is neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024”
Gavin Newsom
Drops out only to instantly suck up to Trump…to the surprise of nobody.
In an ideal world you’d think it was the horrible policies that put him in the shitter. In reality it was probably the high heel boots, eating pudding with his fingers and the nickname Meatball Ron.
What an age we live in.
Finally accepted his participation trophy
What a snowflake
The fact is, he’s a humourless, dour, soulless jerk who ran on being even dumber than Trump. Please stop with the “what went wrong”. He was born. That’s what went wrong.
Ron DeSantis was always mini-Trump. He won the governorship of Florida by sucking Trump’s d*ck in the first place. But did Ron think he could win over the cult? There is a reason we call it a cult, because they will do anything for Mango Mussolini, including staging a coup and kiling democracy for him.
What a fucking loser.
He should have accepted that participation trophy. Now he’s spent $100million and only has some high heel boots to show for it.
Go fuck your sister, traitor🇺🇸
$130 million spent to drop out after the first hurdle.
Words cannot describe just how much I fucking despise this man. Florida has never been great, but he has literally destroyed this fucking state probably beyond repair. The book banning, the transphobia, racism, making us pay for him to travel for his stupid fucking book tour and this goddamn campaign. It’s kind of a double-edged sword because on the one hand it’s been satisfying watching him make a complete fool of himself and become such a laughingstock. But now he’s probably gonna come back and try and do even more dumb shit here.
What a fucking spineless coward.
Not for suspending his campaign, but for turning around and endorsing the civilly liable rapist who has 91 felony charges against him.
The Republican Party does not exist. It is the MAGA Party. They’re nothing but extremists that want to overthrow our government.
Every single person saying they are MAGA or “Republican” are no friends of this country or her people.
Register, make sure you’re still registered, and make sure your friends and family are registered!
https://www.vote.org/
https://www.votesaveamerica.com/be-a-voter/
It’s important for everyone to know what they are voting for!
https://ballotpedia.org/Sample_Ballot_Lookup
Your voice matters. If it didn’t matter, you wouldn’t have so many people trying to stop you from voting, or telling you that your vote doesn’t matter.
## ***BE A VOTER!***
Suspect behind the scenes maneuvering here … Haley is anointed by the billionaires as the best hope of heading off 🍑🍑, and I would bet the kingmakers are asking the possible spoilers to fall on their swords. Last chance, make it count!
And endorsed Trump, after everything. What an utter coward lol
And just like that, his political career is over. What an idiot. If he had just waited 4 more years to run after Trump was out of the picture, he could easily have won the GOP nomination as the guy to continue Trump’s legacy or some bullshit like that. He chose to run against Trump while not at all providing a reason for Trump voters to choose him.
Can’t wait for the humiliation photo with Trump. I hate Trump immensely but am constantly amazed that he can humiliate someone and have them crawling back.
Of course, I hope for Trump humiliation in November.
He’s had to crawl on his knees to kiss the ring of the man who called him “Meatball Ron” and spread rumors that he ate pudding with his fingers
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-backed-pac-posts-desantis-pudding-fingers-ad-2023-4?amp
Nazis everywhere are sad
Wasn’t his slogan “Never Back Down”?
Disney’s lawyers: *Looks like Ronnie’s back on the menu boys!*
DeSantis is a bigger piece of trash than Trump. He’s just as crappy a person, but is a few points smarter. He would have been awful and we would have slide into the Handmaiden’s tale faster. Trump we get the Purge faster.
The Republican party has awful candidates. They can say Biden is old, but so is Trump.
immediately crawls up Trump’s ass.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, you fascist scumbag. Good riddance.
Went after woke, went broke
What a chode. Dude has zero personality and thought it was a good idea to go even harder far right. I ghost r/conservatives and they seem to be getting sick of the maga bullshit
Great work. I remember when he was the “scary version of Trump”.
Now he’s seen as an incompetent, uncharismatic, lip-licking, high-heel wearing, finger-pudding-eating wifey’s boy.
Good job, GOP.
Can bully Disney, gay people, Immigrants but can’t bully Trump. Coward.
Nikki Haley will be next to drop out and support Trump. It just seems so demeaning. I realize that Trump is the Republican party at this point. And any Republican that wants to keep their job ..has to kiss Trump.
In the end Ronnie came up a lil short. Even in his high heals.
Just as many of us predicted. What will happen next is Haley will fall well short of Trump in New Hampshire, as he siphons most of DeSantis’s following, and she will too drop out and endorse like the good little pet she is.
I would be willing to bet that Trump is picking DeSantis for VP as well.
Vote for Nikki Haley New Hampshire.
I called this days ago after Iowa. Now the question is what Trump offered him to drop out prior to New Hampshire.
I can’t wait to see the effect this has on Haley and Trump’s counts come Tuesday.
Now he can turn his attention fully on governing Florida. Sucks to be them.
And now he is going to take this loss out on Florida, as he is just that petty.
Awesome. Every freedom loving American should toss a couple of bucks at Nikki Haley now.
Christ what a loser in a pool of losers