Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump on Monday night, moments after the former president delivered a victory speech following his emphatic first-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
“We didn’t get the upset we wanted to pull off tonight,” Ramaswamy, 38, told supporters in Des Moines. “There is no path for me to be the next president unless things happen that we don’t want to happen in this country.”
“And I think I’m very concerned about our country. “I think as a nation we are skating on thin ice,” he added.
“This has to be an America First candidate in that White House. As I have said from the beginning, there are two America First candidates,” Ramaswamy said before revealing that he had called Trump to “congratulate him on his victory.”
“That’s why I’m going to ask you to continue taking our America First movement to the next level,” he told the crowd.
The Associated Press projected that Trump, 77, would win the race just 30 minutes after caucusgoers entered the venues to cast their votes for the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. The former president was followed by DeSantis, 45, in a distant second and Haley, 51, in third place.
Former President Donald Trump took first place in the Iowa Caucuses Monday night in an expected victory with Ron DeSantis a distant second. AP
“The people of Iowa sent a clear message tonight: Donald Trump will be the next Republican nominee for president. “Now is the time to make him the next president of the United States,” Make America Great Again Inc. spokesman Alex Pfeiffer said in a statement.
“Joe Biden’s team just announced a huge war chest. Every dollar spent by President Trump’s primary losers is a dollar that could be fighting Joe Biden. “Once the DC RINOs are done crying at their cocktail parties about tonight’s results, it’s time for Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy to face reality and stop wasting time and resources.”
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But aside from Ramaswamy, no other candidates planned to withdraw early Tuesday, hoping that polls in other primary states or at least one of Trump’s criminal indictments could complicate his path to the Republican presidential nomination.
The results of the first-in-the-nation primary contest will set the tone for several future races, including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s bid to win the New Hampshire primary. fake images
Candidates will compete in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina in the coming weeks before heading to Michigan, Missouri and North Dakota in late February and early March.
DeSantis assured his supporters in West Des Moines that he was “in this for the long haul,” despite largely ignoring campaign events in New Hampshire, the nation’s first primary state.
The Florida governor was scheduled to appear Tuesday morning in South Carolina, where he will try to reform both Haley and Trump and achieve an unlikely victory.
Haley has outperformed DeSantis among Granite State voters and has even come within single digits of the 45th president in some polls.
Taking the stage to speak after the caucus, Haley defended her continued candidacy to voters who don’t want an electoral rematch between Biden and Trump in 2020, saying the leading Democratic and Republican candidates have “more in common than you might think.” “. .”
“They both lack a vision for the future of our country because they are both consumed by the past, by investigations, by revenge, by grievances,” Haley told the audience. “America deserves better.”
“And as we head to New Hampshire, I have one more thing to say: We’re going to win,” he added. “Underestimate me, because that’s always fun.”
He is expected to pick up even more voters with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s exit from the race last week and is seeking an upset victory over the former president in New Hampshire.
“I’m not playing for second place,” the former South Carolina governor often responded when asked if she would run for Trump’s vice presidential nomination.
Ramaswamy had not expressed any desire to suspend his campaign before his announcement, saying in recent social media posts that the Iowa race was “EQUIPPED” and that Haley’s rise in recent months was orchestrated by “puppeteers.”
Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race after placing fourth and threw his support behind Trump. fake images
Trump himself escalated his attacks on Ramaswamy in the final days before the caucus, dismissing the 38-year-old candidate for having “PLAYED TOO ‘CUTE’” with his campaign in the early days of the Republican primaries.
Trump still faces two federal cases over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results and allegedly withhold national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago property.
He was also charged in Manhattan with allegedly committing business fraud by concealing “hush money” payments to two women before the 2016 election and again for attempting to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
The former president was also ousted from primaries in Colorado and Maine, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal of the Centennial State decision on Feb. 8.
Candidates will compete in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina before heading to Michigan, Missouri and North Dakota. ZUMAPRESS.com
Ramaswamy said the allegations and efforts to remove Trump from the ticket were an attempt by the “establishment” to elevate Haley and reduce the campaign to a “two-horse race.”
“I respect Trump a lot. He is the best president of the 21st century. “I have defended him at every step against unjust persecutions,” he stated. published on Saturday in X.
“But OPEN YOUR EYES to the harsh TRUTH: this system will stop at nothing to keep this man out of the White House. Just because it’s wrong doesn’t mean it won’t happen and we owe it to our nation to move America forward first.”
By Super Tuesday, the March 5 primary election medley, the party’s eventual nominee will likely have emerged, around the same time Trump is scheduled to appear at his first federal trial.
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