Graceless Until the End

John Ellis: “DeSantis’s departure from the race revealed another problem with his candidacy. He was graceless throughout, especially so on his way out the door.”

Said DeSantis: “Trump has my endorsement because we cannot go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”

“Really? Why in the world would anyone in DeSantis’s position take a shot at a rival whose support might be helpful to him down the road? It would have been easy to say: ‘She’s a fighter. She won’t win. But she’ll go down fighting.’ That would have covered the bases; non-offensive to Trump, complimentary of Haley. The fact that he couldn’t bring himself to say it said a lot.”