DeSantis drops out—using a fake quote from Winston Churchill—and endorses Trump.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ended his failed presidential campaign Sunday—in inauspicious fashion, misquoting Winston Churchill—leaving South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as the sole competitor to Donald Trump.Key Facts
DeSantis made the announcement in a video posted Sunday to X, in which he conceded his campaign does not “have a clear path to victory.”
On X, he also included a quote—“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”—that he attributed to Winston Churchill, but the International Churchill Society has called it a fake quote.
