(Headline USA) Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder suspended his campaign this week to endorse former President Donald Trump, calling on his peers to “unite” behind Trump and against President Joe Biden.
Elder, who did not meet the Republican National Committee’s requirements to make the first two debate stages, said suspending his grassroots campaign was a “difficult decision.”
However, the presidential run allowed him to highlight issues important to him, including “the crisis of fatherlessness, the dangerous lie that America is systemically racist, the need for an amendment to the Constitution to set federal spending to a fixed percentage of the GDP,” Elder said.
“The breakdown of the family structure and the absence of positive father figures in the lives of many children have far-reaching consequences for our society, including the crime wave we are currently seeing in America today,” he continued. “I hope that my campaign has helped shine a light on these critical issues and sparked important conversations about how we can solve them.”
Elder then revealed he was endorsing Trump.
“Now that I am exiting the race, I am proud to announce my endorsement of Donald Trump for President of the United States,” he said. “His leadership has been instrumental in advancing conservative, America-first principles and policies that have benefited our great nation.”
The other Republican presidential candidates must do the same and “unite behind Donald Trump to beat Joe Biden and fight back against Biden’s unprecedented election interference and the Left’s destruction of America,” he added.
Elder gained attention toward the start of the 2024 race when he threatened to sue the RNC for “rigging” the race against him after he failed to qualify for the first presidential debate.
“I said from the beginning that it appeared the rules of the game were rigged, little did we know just how rigged it is,” he said at the time. “For some reason, the establishment leaders at the RNC are afraid of having my voice on the debate stage.”
