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DeSantis Discontinued

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Daily News, News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially exited from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed former President Donald Trump. He made the announcement in a video posted on X on Sunday, just two days before the New Hampshire primary.

Because of his exit, all eyes will be Donald Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in Tuesday’s primary. Democrats will also go out to vote, even though President Joe Biden will actually not be on the ballot this year. For more, we’re joined by Manny Espitia, former New Hampshire lawmaker and northern regional director for the progressive group Run for Something.

And in headlines: the death toll in Gaza soared past 25,000 people, a grand jury is set to investigate local police in Uvalde, Texas for their response to the deadly 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School, and California State University System faculty members will walk off the job this week to demand better pay and benefits. 

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0:00.0

It's Monday January 22nd. I'm Travel Anderson and I'm Josie Duffy Rice and this is what a day where we can officially announce a job harder than rocket scientist professional jar opener.

0:12.3

There was this canister with asteroid samples

0:15.3

that traveled 1.2 billion miles to get into NASA's hands

0:19.8

and after taking almost three months,

0:22.0

they were finally able to pry it open.

0:24.8

They should have bought that thing on Tik-Tok that will allow you to open any jar.

0:28.8

On today's show, treacherous winter weather killed roughly 90 people across the country.

0:35.8

Plus the death toll in Gaza has passed 25,000.

0:39.4

But first, Florida, Governor Rhonda Sanctimonious announced yesterday his exit from the race to become

0:45.8

the Republican presidential nominee.

0:48.1

If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it.

0:55.1

But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources

0:59.8

if we don't have a clear path to victory. Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign.

1:05.5

That was, of course, something we all expect it would come,

1:08.8

but perhaps just not this soon.

1:11.3

As we know, he did not win the Iowa Caucasus last week, finishing in a

1:15.1

distant second behind Trump, but that is really where the writing was already

1:19.6

on the wall. Iowa was a state into which Desantis had poured millions of dollars in an

1:25.6

aggressive campaign visiting all 99 counties in the state and in the process

1:31.1

ignoring other early voting states like New Hampshire, like South Carolina,

1:36.0

so we can tell he really was putting a lot of eggs in that basket.

1:41.0

But this is why Josie the old folks say don't count your eggs before they hatch

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