Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy predicted he would win the Iowa Republican caucus last night. He
did not. He came in fourth place and he immediately ended his campaign. You know,
I don't think I will ever forget where I was when I heard that Vivek Ramaswamy was dropping out of
this race. It is going to be. It's just one of those moments you'll know forever exactly where
you were when you saw him make this announcement. Speaker 4: The first hard truth. And this was
hard for me. I got to admit this, but we look at it every which way,
and I think it is true that we did not achieve the surprise that we wanted to deliver tonight.
Speaker 1: And I always find it funny when, you know, we've we've run the numbers every way we
can. And it's like, I don't know, I was in fourth place and I'm only polling 4% and I have no path
to winning any state. It has now become clear that I have no path forward. Dude, I told you that when
I first interviewed you months ago. What? So it becomes one of these things where it's like,
do you have to just suspend disbelief in order to run? Because we all know that you've got no
shot looking at the polling? Or did you genuinely not realize that before? Which would be weird,
because he has access to all the same data we have. But anyway, I I'm getting ahead of myself
here. He is telling us the future of his campaign. Speaker 4: I think that that's just a hard fact
that we're going to have to accept as a campaign. And the question then is,
what do we do that is right for our country? Right? So for me and I,
we we actually didn't make this contingency plan before everybody
told us to. He said, no, we're not doing that. Speaker 1: It never occurred to me to think,
what will I do if I come in fourth? The way the polling says I will. I never even
thought about it until five minutes ago. Speaker 4: But we talked about it tonight.
We took a little bit of time in our apartment in Des Moines before coming here to make some
hard choices, and I wanted to make a couple of announcements tonight to get the business
out of the way. Uh, and then I want to tell you where we're going. As of this moment,
we are going to suspend this potential campaign, and this is going to have to be there is no path
for me to be the next president, absent things that we don't want to see happen in this country.
Speaker 1: Right. I guess Trump being jailed or killed or something, I don't
know. I don't even know what he's thinking of. Speaker 4: And I think that I am very worried
for our country. Yes. I'm absolutely I think we are skating on thin ice as a nation. We have done
everything in our party to make it done. Every one of us in this room has done our part to save this
country, and I am so proud of every one of you who have lifted us up. But we're a campaign founded
on the truth. And so that's why we've made that decision today. And I'm also making the decision
that this has to be an America First candidate in that white House. As I've said since the
beginning, there are two America First candidates in this race. And earlier tonight, I called
Donald Trump to tell him that I congratulate him on his victory. And now going forward,
he will have my full endorsement for the. Speaker 1: I love the lady screaming don't
do it. That is just perfect. Don't do it. No, don't do it.
Speaker 4: And I think we're going to do the right thing for this country.
Speaker 1: That woman did not like what was going on here. So listen, um, this comes as a surprise
to absolutely no one. It is now going to be a fight between Trump Desanctis and Nikki Haley. It
seems to me that if. DeSantis performs as poorly as he is expected to in New Hampshire. He may also
be gone, uh, quite soon. And, uh, my prediction on on vague. I actually thought he would make
it into February. I thought his campaign would last into February. I was wrong, he,
uh, underperformed even my low expectations. So Vivek out endorses Trump. No surprise to anybody.