Florida governor Ron DeSantis still believes he is going to be the next president of the United States, despite flopping in all polls and placing distant second behind Donald Trump’s big win in Iowa.
On Monday (16 January) former president Trump won a huge victory in the Iowa caucuses – the first race of the 2024 Republican primary – with other GOP candidates DeSantis, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley and Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy languished second, third and fourth respectively.
Ramaswamy subsequently dropped out of the race and threw his support behind Trump.
Trump scored the majority with 51 per cent (56,260 votes), whilst DeSantis was much further behind with 21.2 per cent (23,420 votes) which just edged him over Haley who received 19.1 per cent of the vote (21,085 votes).
Speaking to his voters, DeSantis thanked them for their support and celebrated the result after critics “threw everything but the kitchen sink at us” and still insisted he will be the US’s 47th president.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do but I can tell you this, as the next president of the United States I am going to get the job done for this country.” He told the cheering crowd.
“I am not going to make any excuses and I guarantee you this: I will not let you down.”