Vivek Ramaswamy ended his Republican presidential bid after a disappointing finish in Iowa.
“I will stick to the truth tonight. The first hard truth and this was hard for me, I gotta admit this, but we’ve looked at it every which way. And I think it is true that we did not achieve the surprise that we wanted to deliver tonight,” he said at his campaign’s watch party in Des Moines, Iowa.
Ramaswamy endorsed Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
“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 presidency,” he said.
Ramaswamy, 38, finished fourth in the Iowa caucuses with 7.7% of the vote and 95% of the precincts reporting late Monday night.
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