{"id":1029344,"date":"2024-01-21T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029344"},"modified":"2024-01-21T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:10:07","slug":"dnc-statement-on-ron-desantiss-exit-from-the-2024-republican-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-ron-desantiss-exit-from-the-2024-republican-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Statement on Ron DeSantis\u2019s Exit From the 2024 Republican Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>In response to Ron DeSantis suspending his 2024 GOP primary campaign and endorsing Donald Trump,<\/em><strong><em> DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRon DeSantis pinned his entire campaign\u2019s hopes on the same extreme MAGA agenda that both Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are still running on, and now he is the latest member of the GOP to fall in line behind the original MAGA brand. Just like Trump, DeSantis ran a campaign pledging to ban abortion nationwide, rip away access to health care, and gut Social Security and Medicare, while embracing election deniers and whitewashing January 6. Whichever candidate wins the race for the MAGA base will be left running on the same dangerous and unpopular anti-freedom agenda that voters will reject in November.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Ron DeSantis suspending his 2024 GOP primary campaign and endorsing Donald Trump, DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement: \u201cRon DeSantis pinned his entire campaign\u2019s hopes on the same extreme MAGA agenda that both Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are still running on, and now he is the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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