Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost suspended his campaign for governor on Friday in a show of party solidarity, telling Republicans in the state he did not wish to divide the GOP on trivial matters.

In a letter to supporters, Yost noted that he now had a “vertical climb” to overcome the momentum held by Vivek Ramaswamy who received the endorsement of the Ohio Republican Party earlier in the week.

“I do not wish to divide my political party or my state with a quixotic battle over the small differences between my vision and that of my opponent,” Yost wrote in his message. “I am simply not that important.”

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