On Wednesday, Florida Governor and former 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis appeared on the Newsmax show "The Balance" with Eric Bolling. In that appearance, the Governor tossed some shade at his fellow former candidate, Nikki Haley, for not outright endorsing the presumptive GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump.

“I signed the pledge and you signed the pledge saying that you’re gonna not take your ball and go home,” DeSantis said on Newsmax’s “The Balance” with Eric Bolling when asked about Haley’s decision. “And so I honored the pledge, and she’s gonna have to make a decision about whether she wants to or not.”

“But the idea that somehow circumstances have changed — I think we all knew what we were doing when we did that, and you got to make a judgment about whether that’s meaningful to you,” he added. “And so for me, I tell people, you know, if I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it.”

He did it, too, in the same speech in which he announced suspending his campaign.

Previously on RedState: BREAKING: DeSantis Suspends Presidential Campaign, Endorses Donald Trump

BREAKING: Nikki Haley Suspending Presidential Campaign, Won't Immediately Endorse

Nikki Haley did not; in her campaign suspension speech, she declined to make an outright endorsement, stating instead that Donald Trump would have to "earn the votes" of uncommitted Republicans and independents.

Now, many of the previous challengers to the former president have chosen to endorse Trump since leaving the presidential race, including DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R).

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a frequent critic of the likely GOP nominee, has vowed to not vote for Trump”“under any circumstances” since he dropped out of the race before the Iowa caucuses.

Haley said during her suspension announcement Wednesday that Trump would need to “earn” the votes of her supporters.

The Republican National Committee required candidates to sign a pledge to endorse and support the eventual nominee to gain access to the primary debate stage. While Donald Trump did not sign the pledge and did not participate in the primary debates (which, in the end, did not end up costing him the nomination) Governor Haley did sign, and her statement of support for Trump in her campaign suspension announcement was, at best, tepid.

It's hard to see what is next for Nikki Haley. It's unlikely in the extreme that she will have any substantive role in a second Trump administration; there has likely been too much bad blood passed between the two during the primary campaign, and whatever else one has to say about Donald Trump, he does not appear to be the overly forgiving sort. She may well end up with a talking-head role with one of the right-leaning news networks, and given her age (52), it's very likely we have not yet seen the end of her presidential ambitions.

Endorsement or not, Nikki Haley's suspending her campaign has essentially brought the GOP into the general election phase of this cycle. President Trump's task now is not only to point out President Biden's failures, which are varied and manifest but also to present his own roadmap to, if I may borrow the phrase, make America great again.