Ron DeSantis Ends 2024 Campaign Using Fake Winston Churchill Quote

Flying Squid@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world – 253 points – Ron DeSantis Ends 2024 Campaign Using Fake Winston Churchill Quote
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Newsweek reports that one early instance of the quote being misattributed to Churchill comes, ironically, from a 1939 ad for Budweiser — a company DeSantis has criticized in the recent past.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

- Ron DeSantis

Even I think you're a meatball, Ron.

  • Winston Churchill
  • Flying Squid

Huh. Weird fake quote choice from someone giving a statement on no longer continuing.

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