The race winnowed down to two main candidates yesterday after Ron DeSantis dropped out
Money, endorsements, poll numbers: Ron DeSantis had it all, and then he lost it. Was it taken from him by the 800-pound gorilla of the Republican party Donald Trump, or did he cause his own downfall? The Guardian’s David Smith untangles the question, and finds that it’s a little bit of both:
It began in a glitch-filled disaster on Twitter. It ended with a misattributed quotation on X. Just like Elon Musk’s social media platform, efforts to rebrand Ron DeSantis’s US presidential election campaign could not mask its fundamental flaws.