Is Trump Right? President Trump Urges Ron DeSantis To 'Get Out' Of The 2024 Race 'For The Good Of The Party'

On Friday morning in a conversation with 'American Sunrise' on Real America's Voice, 45th President Donald J. Trump came straight to the point and urged Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to exit the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination "for the good of the party."

DeSantis, as reported by The Post Millennial, has launched an additional reboot of his campaign after a sweeping series of staffing cuts after hitting the ceiling of potential campaign contributions. Despite the setbacks, he is still on the trail in Iowa.

According to Fox News, DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck described the staffing cuts in a statement, "Following a top-to-bottom review of our organization, we have taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden."

Trump told host John Fredricks, "I think he has to get out for the good of the party," Trump said. "He could have waited and he would have been odds-on favorite for '28 but he didn't do that. I got him elected. If it weren't for me he wouldn't be governor, he'd be working in a law office right now or doing whatever he was going to do."

As Trump has alluded to several times he campaigned for DeSantis in 2018 at a time when his support was pivotal. "He was dead," Trump explained per The Post Millennial, "when I endorsed him, he came begging for an endorsement, when I endorsed him he had a couple of like a rocket ship. One day! One day."

Trump advisor Jason Miller told the Washington Examiner in a statement on Thursday, "Ron DeSantis needs to look in the mirror and recognize that at his current trajectory, it's not just 2024 that is dead for him, but 2028 as well."

He told reporters that DeSantis' continued misguided attacks are only helping Joe Biden and that if his goal is to help the current president, he "should just get out of the race."

During his interview with Fredericks, Trump again referred back to his assistance in DeSantis' 2018 primary race against Adam Putnam, “He’d be working in a law office right now,” Trump told him, “just doing whatever he was going to do.” He further added that his assistance was crucial in the general election for governor saying, “We got him past the General Election running against a then very hot candidate who Ron didn’t think he could beat, but we beat him."

Trump explained, "[T]he fact is he’s a lousy campaigner. Remember, he was at like three percent when I endorsed him. So, on his own without endorsement, without my endorsement, he was at three percent.”

“He’s proven to be a terrible campaigner. He’s got no personality and … and it looks like he’ll be superseded by somebody else,” Trump concluded. “He’s really gotten back to the pack, and I’ve gone way forward, and we’re leading by 50 or 60 points in many cases.”

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