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Hey, good morning. I am Playbook Co-Roth, Eugene Daniels. It is Monday, January 22nd.

What's driving the day today is Ron DeSantis, Florida, governor, and 2024 presidential

candidate has dropped his presidential bid.

And joining me now to discuss Ron DeSantis dropping out is our very own Florida man, Gary Fine Out.

Gary, how are you? Thank you very much for joining.

Yeah, I'm doing well. I'm doing well. My Sunday got suddenly very changed than what I was just going to watch

football, you know, but that didn't happen. Yeah, some people had different plans for you. I'm looking

at the story that you and our colleagues Kimberly and Sally wrote kind of about the DeSantis dropping out.

And the first line, it was never supposed to be this way.

Really kind of encapsulates how I think a lot of people view his campaign.

Talk to me about kind of the TikTok of the decision.

It kind of felt inevitable, I think, to a lot of people that this was going to happen.

But why the Sunday night ruining everyone's football plans before voting even started in New Hampshire?

From what I understand, this is something that they were contemplating.

It was kind of interesting with Iowa, the way it kind of played out.

There were people who before Iowa were sort of like, well, if, you know, he doesn't do well in Iowa,

if he doesn't win Iowa, what state will he win? Yeah. And then initially right after Iowa,

it was, nope, going forward, got enough money to get through South Carolina. So they kind of kept

doing things the last week. And then, you know, the conversations just sort of coalesced over the last two or three days and, you know, culminated with the decision to suspend the campaign.

Yeah, the money situation was probably, you know, they were probably getting to a point where they were going to run on the money in the near future.

And then, again, the question was, what state was going to be out there that you could win in terms of defeating Trump?

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