New Hampshire lawmaker flips endorsement to Trump after DeSantis’ ‘depressing launch’

A New Hampshire state consultant switched her allegiances to former President Trump on Thursday after being “lower than impressed” with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ glitch-filled marketing campaign launch announcement. 

State Rep. Sandra Panek, whom the pro-DeSantis By no means Again Down tremendous PAC included in a listing of greater than 50 Granite State lawmakers backing the Florida governor for president earlier this month, argued Thursday that the stakes in 2024 are too excessive to again a candidate that may’t easily get their marketing campaign off the bottom.   

“After being lower than impressed with Ron DeSantis’s official announcement final night time, I’m hereby switching my endorsement to President Donald J. Trump,” Panek stated in a press release blasted out by the Trump marketing campaign.

“We are able to’t count on somebody to run the nation if they will’t correctly run their very own marketing campaign launch. The stakes are just too nice in 2024 to take an opportunity on somebody as unreliable as DeSantis — we’d like a confirmed winner like President Trump to take again the White House and Make America Nice Once more!”

Panek additional instructed The Publish on Thursday that the technical difficulties throughout DeSantis’ Twitter Areas announcement left her unable to listen to something the newest entrant into the 2024 GOP presidential race stated.

“Twitter Areas didn’t help iPad customers, so I couldn’t even take heed to the DeSantis launch,” Panek stated. “Not one TV information outlet might report on it. This was a depressing launch. An excessive amount of stumbling and bumbling.”

When requested if elements apart from the bumpy marketing campaign announcement contributed to her change, Panek doubled down on the Florida governor’s rollout and likewise stated he wasn’t charismatic sufficient. 

“With DeSantis, you’re getting Trump with out the charisma. I need the true deal,” she stated.

“The rollout marketing campaign launch was too chaotic. Not properly thought out,” Panek argued. “Trump has the expertise and a confirmed monitor document. DeSantis isn’t fairly prepared.” 

Panek’s change follows her colleague, New Hampshire state Rep. Juliet Harvey-Bolia, scrapping her “dual endorsement” of each Trump and DeSantis to solely Trump after the governor’s Wednesday launch.

“I’m proud to announce my full endorsement for President Trump, and solely Trump. He’ll maintain us out of battle and affluent as he has previously. Ron DeSantis will make a terrific candidate in 2028. I count on Republicans will unite behind President Trump,” Harvey-Bolia wrote on Twitter.

The DeSantis marketing campaign revealed on Thursday that it has raised $8.2 million within the 24 hours because the Sunshine State governor’s Twitter Areas occasion. 

Trump leads DeSantis by double digits in practically each 2024 GOP main ballot.