After Ron DeSantis dropped out of the 2024 GOP presidential primary, Donald Trump announced his infamous nickname for the Florida governor is “officially retired.”

“He said will I be using the name ‘Ron DeSanctimonious,'” Trump responded to a reporter.

“I said that name is officially retired,” he announced.

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“With only a few days left until President Donald J. Trump’s victory in New Hampshire, we are honored by the endorsement from Governor Ron DeSantis and so many other former presidential candidates,” the Trump campaign said in a statement.

“It is now time for all Republicans to rally behind President Trump to defeat Crooked Joe Biden and end his disastrous presidency.”

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Trump said he is “very honored” to have DeSantis’ endorsement.

“I look forward to working together with him to beat Joe Biden, who is the worst and most corrupt president in the history of our country,” Trump told Fox News Digital.

“Following our second place finish in Iowa, we’ve prayed and deliberated on the way forward. If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops [and] more interviews, I would do it,” DeSantis said Sunday.

“But I can’t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don’t have a clear path to victory,” he continued.

“Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign,” DeSantis announced.

“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance. They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance. And they see Democrats using lawfare to this day to attack him,” he continued.

“I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee and I will honor that pledge. He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents,” DeSantis explained in his endorsement of Trump.

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From the Associated Press:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump.

The decision leaves Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as the last major candidates remaining in the race ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. This is the scenario Trump’s foes in the GOP have long sought, raising the stakes for this week’s contest as the party’s last chance to stop the former president who has so far dominated the race.

But as some Trump critics cheered, DeSantis nodded toward Trump’s primary dominance — and attacked Haley — in an exit video he posted on social media.

“DeSantis’ allies said that private discussions began shortly after Iowa to decide how to bow out of the race gracefully,” AP noted.

“The Florida governor notified top donors and supporters of his decision through a series of phone conversations and text messages between senior campaign officials to top donors and supporters on Sunday afternoon, according to two people who received such communications,” the outlet stated.

 

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