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Inside the final hours of Ron DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign

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Ron DeSantis ill fated campaignInside the final hours of Ron DeSantis' ill-fated campaign

The Florida governor’s dropout on Sunday was the conclusion of a week of internal discussions after his distant second-place finish in Iowa. –Ron DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign

Ron DeSantis ill fated campaignInside the final hours of Ron DeSantis' ill-fated campaign

Ron DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign

On Sunday morning, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis invite several of his closest advisers to the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee for a final discussion about his presidential campaign for the future, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

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Ron DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign

Then, Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey left the advisers for a private chat in the upstairs house. They had decided he would discontinue a campaign that had no reasonable path forward. By the time they returned to the advisers, DeSantis had written down lines that would form part of the announcement that he was suspending the campaign.

The discussions at the Governor’s Mansion culminated in nearly a week of conversations between DeSantis and his advisers that began last Monday night, shortly after he placed a distant second to former President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021 in the Iowa caucuses.

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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, one of Ron DeSantis’s most prominent backers, traveled to Tallahassee for the final round of conversations, helping DeSantis weigh the values of exiting the race before the New Hampshire primary, and the Advantages and Disadvantages of endorsing Trump, according to people familiar with his role.

Reached by the phone on Sunday night, Roy said he has been “continuously speaking to the governor” during the campaign and believes “he carried the right step” in missing the campaign short and endorsing Trump. He denied to detail his discussions with DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis ill fated campaignInside the final hours of Ron DeSantis' ill-fated campaign

Ron DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign

Ron DeSantis had hoped to carry his primary argument against Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley past this week’s New Hampshire primary and into South Carolina, where his advisers believed he would at least have a chance to gain some traction over the next month.

But money was drying up. His campaign and its allied super PACs couldn’t increase enough to reload the tens of millions of dollars that had been consumed in a vain bid to win Iowa. DeSantis wanted to understand what had happened in Iowa and why — and what his outlook was in the coming states on the calendar. He peppered advisors with queries while he continued to campaign.

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For several days, DeSantis caromed around the East Coast, dropping in and out of South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Florida, without any discernible change in his fortunes. Clear decisions to concentrate on South Carolina at the cost of New Hampshire were signaled to the media, brought back, and then reshuffled. All the extent, polls displayed him in single digits in New Hampshire, positioned to complete far behind both Donald Trump and Haley, and South Carolina didn’t look much better.

On Thursday, “the information openings were closed,” told the person familiar with Ron DeSantis’ deliberations. But Ron DeSantis preferred to visit with voters one more time, and he traveled to New Hampshire and South Carolina to get a final visit to the electorate. Behind his final event in South Carolina on Saturday, he traveled home to Tallahassee, where he would complete his final call.

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In the hours before he declared his decision to suspend the campaign, he revoked the planned arrivals on Sunday television shows, including NBC’s “Meet the Press,” which led supporters and adversaries alike to realize he was on his way out.

“Everyone wanted to wait in until South Carolina, but increasing money became so hard, and it was not running to get easier,” a Ron DeSantis counselor said.

DeSantis announced his departure in a post on X, in which he also endorsed Trump. Did Ron Desantis endorse Trump?

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

– Winston Churchill pic.twitter.com/ECoR8YeiMm

“They keep had obvious massive policy differences, but he notices Nikki as a corporate sellout and globalist and, outside of Covid, philosophically agrees with Donald Trump,” the adviser said. “That decision required to be made, as far as he is concerned.”

DeSantis had criticized Trump during the campaign for issuing federal guidelines on social distancing and masking and for promoting vaccines in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But there was agreement within his inner circle that approving Trump was the right move, said three people familiar with their views.

Until it was announced, the decision was kept to a close circle of counsels: A campaign surrogate, donor Dan Eberhart, was en route to New Hampshire when he found out the campaign had been ended. Several other subordinates to Ron DeSantis’ campaign and super PACs said they weren’t told in advance. Ron DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign

Neither Ron DeSantis nor his counsels had any negotiation or discussion with Trump’s team, a senior Trump adviser

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