Another Republican candidate withdrew in favor of Trump
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who had a relatively high chance of winning the Republican Party's nomination, withdrew from the intra-party election in favor of Donald Trump. |
According to the report of Fars International News Agency, in an important event in the intra-party elections of the Republicans, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was mentioned as the first candidate of this party after Donald Trump, withdrew from the election.
Desantis announced his resignation in favor of Donald Trump by publishing a video. Regarding the reason for his withdrawal from the election, he said that “he did not have a clear path to the final victory in the official nomination for the Republican Party.” It makes the state of South Carolina the only competitor of Donald Trump in the internal elections of the Republican party.
Despite facing criminal charges, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, was able to win the first Republican election race in the state of Iowa. to achieve a decisive victory.
Trump’s decisive victory in Iowa made Vivek Ramaswamy, another Republican candidate, to withdraw from the election in favor of him.
Ramaswamy, who won about eight percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses, said that “I have to admit that we didn’t get the surprise that we wanted to get tonight (in Iowa).
In this election, 45-year-old DeSantis came in second place and left behind 51-year-old Nikki Haley, the former representative of the United States to the United Nations.
According to Reuters, Trump’s performance in these primaries reflects his popularity among Republican voters despite two impeachments, his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress and 91 criminal charges for attempted overthrow. The result of the 2020 election is the retention of classified documents after leaving the White House and the falsification of records related to the payment of hush money to an unethical movie actor.
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