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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody Happy Sunday. So major breaking news just happened.

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Speaker 1: Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has officially dropped out of

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Speaker 1: the GOP presidential race. He's endorsed former President Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: for the nomination. Here's what he had to say.

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Speaker 2: Nobody worked harder and we left it all out on

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Speaker 2: the field. Now, following our second place finished in Iowa,

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Speaker 2: we've prayed and deliberated on the way forward. If there

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Speaker 2: was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome,

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Speaker 2: more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it. But

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Speaker 2: I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and

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Speaker 2: donate their resources if we don't have a clear path

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Speaker 2: to victory. Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign. I'm

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Speaker 2: proud to have delivered on one hundred percent of my promises,

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Speaker 2: and I will not stop now. It's clear to me

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Speaker 2: that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump another chance. They watch his presidency get stymied

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Speaker 2: by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfair this

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Speaker 2: day to attack him. Well, I've had disagreements with Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of

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Speaker 2: Anthony Fauci Trump is superior to the current incumbent Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: That is clear. I signed a pledge to support the

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Speaker 2: Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge. He has

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Speaker 2: my endorsement because we can't go back to the old

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Speaker 2: Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackage formed of warmed over

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Speaker 2: corporatism that Nicky Haley represents. While this campaign has ended,

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Speaker 2: the mission continues down here in Florida. We will continue

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Speaker 2: to show the country how to lead.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Christlin, I'm gonna have a lot to say

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Speaker 1: about this tomorrow. I think you can tune in. It'll

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Speaker 1: be a fun show. We have Shelby Talcott also joining

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Speaker 1: us from Semaphore, so you're gonna give us some reporting

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Speaker 1: about what happened behind the scenes. But a lot of

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Speaker 1: this came together pretty quickly and just immediately off the

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Speaker 1: top of our heads. Why should we care? This is

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Speaker 1: going to change the race obviously in the state of

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Now, Governor DeSantis was not doing well in

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire. He came in second in Iowa, barely beat

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Speaker 1: Nicki Haley, but he was only polling some six percent

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Speaker 1: or so in the state. Really it was Nicky Haley

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Speaker 1: versus Donald Trump. Now, immediately this may seem like it's

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Speaker 1: good for Trump. Later polls and we'll talk about this

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Speaker 1: as well, show him around fifty five percent support. But

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Speaker 1: you know, an additional six to Nicky Haley wouldn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: be the worst thing in the world. She may come

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Speaker 1: in a distant second as opposed to a further distant

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Speaker 1: second that she would have in the first place. No

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Speaker 1: indication if she's even going to try and run the

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Speaker 1: table whenever it does come to New Hampshire. But the

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Speaker 1: immediate thing is that for Disantis, and we've said this

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Speaker 1: from the beginning, what was his outlook? I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's great one second in Iowa. There's no bump happening

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Speaker 1: for you in New Hampshire. And then you've got to

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Speaker 1: go to South Carolina, where Nicki Haley is the former

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Speaker 1: governor of the state. And by the way, Tim Scott,

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Speaker 1: the former senator who ran against Trump and dropped out,

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Speaker 1: he's endorsing Trump in New Hampshire. So that tells you

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Speaker 1: something about where things were going to go in South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: And Trump already had the South Carolina endorsement of Lindsay Grahams,

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Speaker 1: who basically had the whole Republican establishment there on top

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Speaker 1: of polling in every single at the top of it. Ever,

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Speaker 1: then DeSantis would have had to lose three contests in

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Speaker 1: a row, second, third, and then probably third again before

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Speaker 1: limping into the state of Florida, his own home state,

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Speaker 1: where he likely would have lost to Trump anyway, who

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Speaker 1: by all accounts, he's doing incredibly well. At the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, DeSantis put it no path to victory

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Speaker 1: there just didn't It really just didn't exist. He says,

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Speaker 1: clearly the Republican electorate wants to give Trump another chance.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll save some of the you know, some

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Speaker 1: of the pat on the backs. Some people have been

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Speaker 1: saying that for quite a long time about Desanta's Actually,

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Speaker 1: if you go back and roll the tape, I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure I said he shouldn't have run in the first place.

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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I could see, you know, the

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Speaker 1: whole like shoot your shot while you got it. But

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Speaker 1: this was just always the most likely scenario. Anyway, you know,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. I guess it's just one

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Speaker 1: step closer to the total inevitability. Shout out to the

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Speaker 1: premium members and more. Just wanted to drop this breaking

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Speaker 1: new segment so you guys could get the segment now.

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Speaker 1: But we will have full analysis and everything tomorrow