with you, my friend. an hour that is yet to be disclosed. i can t wait to see you again. i never have enough. in a little bit, see you. thank you to you at home for joining me this evening. the republican primary field has won thus canada as of this evening. former new jersey governor chris christie has officially dropped out of the race. it s clear to me tonight that there is not the path for me to one denomination. which is why, i am suspending my campaign tonight for president of the united states. i know, and i can see it from the faces here, that i and people by doing this. people who believe in our message and what we have been doing. i also know though, it s the right thing for me to do, because i want to promise you this, i am going to make sure that in no way do i enable donald trump to ever be president of the united states again, and that is more important than my own personal ambition. christy made a number of big statements about the state of the republic
staffer told my colleague matt dixon, it s political making of governor on desantis does not happen without donald trump. it is what made desantis hooey is today, for better or worse. joining me now, matt dixon, nbc news national political reporter and author of swamp monsters. trump versus desantis, the greatest show on earth, or at least in florida. matt, congratulations on this book. a very timely release is we re gonna be talking a lot about governor desantis today and tomorrow. for people who don t know the interesting and tangled history between donald trump and ron desantis, it goes back to 2016. can you talk a bit about it? the forward facing relationship between the two going back to the endorsement in 2017 when desantis first ran for governor, has been the defining messaging, the defining story between the two. but going back to even before he was governor, in the primary and early on in that race, they were sort of feeling each other