Radio talk show host and author Larry Elder has ended his long-shot campaign to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination after visiting Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday.

Shortly after the visit, Elder issued a statement announcing he was suspending his campaign and endorsing the former president, CNN reported.

“As I look at the path forward, and after careful consideration and consultation with my campaign team, I have made the difficult decision to suspend my campaign,” he noted in a lengthy statement.

“Now that I am exiting the race, I am proud to announce my endorsement of Donald Trump for President of the United States,” he added. “His leadership has been instrumental in advancing conservative, America-first principles and policies that have benefited our great nation. We must unite behind Donald Trump to beat Joe Biden and fight back against Biden’s unprecedented election interference and the left’s destruction of America.”

“Throughout my campaign, I have been steadfast in my belief that the biggest issues facing our nation are 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 — otherwise government gets bigger whether Republicans or Democrats are in charge, and the need to remove the Soros-backed DAs across the country who refuse to enforce the law,” he said in the statement.

“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 added. “I hope that my campaign has helped shine a light on these critical issues and sparked important conversations about how we can solve them.”

It's time to unite behind @realDonaldTrump to beat Joe Biden! pic.twitter.com/VXw6pyem2d

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) October 26, 2023

CNN added: “Elder failed to meet the donor and polling requirements set by the Republican National Committee to make the first presidential debate in August. He sharply criticized the RNC’s debate qualification requirements and said that he intended to sue the RNC to ‘halt’ the proceedings, asserting that officials were ‘afraid of having my voice on the debate stage.’ He joins former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, Michigan businessman Perry Johnson, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who have previously ended their bids.”