Tag: 2024 GOP primary

DeSantis Quotes Budweiser, Not Churchill, in Concession Speech

Buck Banks

“Winston Churchill once remarked that, ‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.’ While this campaign has ended, the mission continues.”

— In a fitting end to what has been called the worst presidential campaign in modern times, Ron DeSantis ended his campaign as it started — ineptly — by misquoting Winston Churchill and instead quoting from a 1939 Budweiser advert, reports Pink News.

DeSantis: Graceless to the End

Buck Banks

“DeSantis’s departure from the race revealed another problem with his candidacy. He was graceless throughout, especially so on his way out the door.” Said DeSantis: “Trump has my endorsement because we cannot go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”

— John Ellis, on Substack

Haley Moves to Second Place in New Hampshire, S.C.

Buck Banks

19%

A new USA Today/Suffolk poll in New Hampshire shows Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential race with 49%, followed by Nikki Haley at 19%, Ron DeSantis at 10%, Chris Christie at 6%, Vivek Ramaswamy at 4% and Tim Scott at 4%. A new Winthrop poll in South Carolina finds Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential race with 51%, followed by Nikki Haley at 17%, Ron DeSantis at 12%, Tim Scott at 6%, Vivek Ramaswamy at 5%, Chris Christie at 2% and Mike Pence at 2%.