A solid dive by Law.Com and Daily Business Review into the background of who is financing Donald Trump versus who is financing Ron DeSantis should help to clarify the nature of the difference between them.
President Trump is funded primarily from massive amounts of small contributions from small donors, the MAGA base.
Governor Ron DeSantis is funded primarily by a small group of exclusive Wall Street corporations, billionaires and hedge fund managers, and almost no small donors.
Essentially, if you are thinking about MAGA populism -vs- corporate republicanism; well, there’s the issue in easiest to understand data form.
Additionally, the new managers of DeSantis have recently noticed the vulnerability and hired firms to try and stimulate small donor amounts in an effort to avoid the jaw dropping difference in average donation. A strategy deployed by Jeb Bush in 2015. Pay attention to the names giving large donations to DeSantis and you will see: (a) where the economic policy distinction comes from; and (b) where the RDS branding and consulting image is coming from.
Business Daily Review – Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has raised more money than Donald Trump since the former president left office, relying on deep-pocketed donors rather than the small-dollar contributors he’ll need if he seeks the White House in 2024.
DeSantis … has amassed $142 million from the start of 2021 through Aug. 5 this year from donors such as the hedge fund billionaires Ken Griffin and Paul Tudor Jones. That tops the $136 million Trump collected over a slightly shorter period.
Unlike Trump, who relies largely on a network of small-dollar donors to fund his postpresidential political operations, DeSantis has raised the bulk of his money from a small number of wealthy donors writing him giant checks. That gives him plenty of money for his reelection effort in Florida, where laws allow unlimited contributions.
But it also raises doubts about the level of grassroots support for DeSantis and suggests he’ll have to widen his fundraising base for any presidential bid because federal rules limit direct contributions to candidates to just $2,900 per donor.
About 500 donors have given $50,000 or more to Friends of Ron DeSantis, his political action committee which under Florida law can accept donations in unlimited amounts, accounting for $88 million of his fundraising haul. His big donors come from finance and real estate, health care and construction and a wide range of other businesses, a Bloomberg analysis of Florida campaign finance filings shows.
By contrast, donors who made contributions of less than $200 accounted for $8 million, or just 6%, of his haul. Unlike Trump, who’s raised $74 million or 54% of his total from January 2021 through June 30 from small-dollar donors, DeSantis doesn’t send multiple, daily fundraising pitches to supporters. Recently his campaign went a month without sending a text message to potential donors who signed up to receive them.
His top 500 donors include 10 billionaires, including Citadel’s Griffin, who moved his hedge fund’s headquarters to Miami from Chicago 14 months after giving $5 million. Other contributors include Tudor Jones, the chief executive officer of Tudor Investment Corp., Home Depot Inc. co-founder Bernard Marcus and Thomas Peterffy, the chairman of Interactive Brokers Inc. (read more)
Ron DeSantis has done a great job in Florida, mostly on social impact issues. However, on a national policy level, specifically on a presidential level for 2024, the donor influence becomes troubling.
Issues around school choice, school boards, woke policy and social issues in general are easier to handle for voters at a local level. City, county and state representatives, and the elections they come from, are the people and places where voters can make a substantive difference in their own outcome.
As a parent or individual you have the ability to fight back against social and ideological issues at a city, county and state level. However, when it comes to issues of national economics, international trade policy and national energy policy, those battles happen at the federal level. That’s where the President of the United States has a major influence.
As examples, the price of gasoline and energy are influenced by the president through regulatory policy. Similarly, international trade agreements, economic policy and monetary policy, have consequences for domestic investment, economic growth, jobs, employment, wage growth and expanded domestic wealth.
Simply put, the president has a strong impact on the nation, and the people within it, from an economic perspective.
All modern republicans are incapable of executing a policy that is pro-U.S. worker, because every modern republican is a beneficiary of Wall Street, hedge funds and multinational corporate contributions; exactly like those outlined for Ron DeSantis. As a consequence, economic policy adverse to the interests of Wall Street, Banks, hedge funds and multinational corporations do not come from modern republican politicians.
This dynamic reflects the distinction that made Donald Trump unique.
Unlike traditional republicans, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both agreed on the problem. Where they disagreed was the solution.
Donald Trump used domestic economic policy tools like trade tariffs and countervailing duties to change the corporate behavior of the multinationals. Bernie Sander’s approach is to regulate the corporations and force a behavior change.
Put another way, Bernie wants to change the economic referees, while Trump’s approach is to change the economic rules of the game and let the teams play it.
You might remember a large percentage of Bernie Sanders voters joined team Trump in 2016. That’s because both teams agreed on the problem within our national economic situation. The result was MAGA, a massive coalition of working-class voters, based on economics, that cuts through every social distinction of race, color, sex, orientation, etc. The issue that binds the MAGA voters together is economic policy.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a good governor for Florida, and he should be reelected easily. However, do not fool yourself into believing the massive coalition of MAGA voters would ever transfer to a corporate republican. It will not. EVER.
When people ask me who should come in after Trump, my answer is simple…. Show me the economic nationalist.
If there isn’t another one,… well, what does that tell you about the Republican party?
Last point. Florida republicans have a major blind spot they keep ignoring and DeSantis is very lucky Charlie Crist doesn’t have the resources to exploit it.
Housing costs, rents and homeowners’ insurance in Florida have skyrocketed. In some places home insurance has tripled just this year; yes, tripled. Energy costs also increased massively in Florida, in many areas electricity rates have doubled. Water utility costs in Florida have consistently been the highest in the nation due to the nature of the infrastructure and rapid expansion of the population. Additionally, property tax costs -even with homestead protections- are a serious issue for lots of voters.
Put those economic issues, all being ignored by the governor’s office – as he campaigns around the country to raise his national profile, on top of high gasoline and food prices and DeSantis is very vulnerable on the way Floridians feel about their economic security.
Focusing on wokeism and social issues is an option when economic issues are not in crisis. However, focusing on social issues while ignoring the economic pain and crisis, and you find yourself looking detached. aloof and vulnerable to political attack….. Then again, a typical republican.
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Donald Trump…
‘The best President money can’t buy’
Well, Washington was pretty damn effective, but he got a dollar out of it.
Well said. Very well said. When I get the chance I always tell people that the MAGA movement grew out of the Tea Party. It was the movement that found Trump (that, by the way, the a major reason for the intense loyalty he gets from the MAGA movement) . Basically, we went looking for a political assassin, someone who could take on the very Deep State that worked to destroy the Tea Party’s influence . . . and in DJT we found our man.
That said, I don’t at all think ill of DeSantis. This is simply not his time to run for president. In fact there is simply nobody that has the kind of political mojo that can draw the kinds of crowds (86,000 outside of Houston for instance) that Donald Trump can draw. Trump owns the Republican Party. GO TRUMP!!!
Show me the donors, and I will show you the politician.
Simply, Ron DeSantis will never fix the problems the political, corporate, financial mob do not want ‘fixed’.
Hence the huge effort to spread the infection of RDS, Ron Deification Syndrome.
Amen, Maquis!
100% agree. I’m done trusting the smooth-talking politicians, no matter how sincere they sound. Our BS meter has to be cranked up to 10 right now, because the grifter gang is getting smart by presenting themselves as the ultra MAGA in front of the voters, and like pets in front of the big money donors. NOT falling for that again.
When an establishment encounters a rebellious faction within its ranks, it has a 3 step process for neutralising the threat;
1) IGNORE; any attentiin paid to it gives it credibility
2)Suppress, both active and passive suppression
3) ABSORB; but in the process, dilute it.
Reagan was the last President with cajones,that didn’t just do as he was told, heck of a Politician and President, and left with highest approval rating of any President that didn’t die in office.
And so, we had a whole crop of Reagan imitators, all claiming they were “Reagan Republicans”;
Bushes
Romney
McStain
Rubio
Cruz
Point is, its what the Club does. They will try to throw out a whole crop of “Trump like” politicians, like DeSantis, that will ‘sound’ like, ‘look’ like or even ‘feel’ like PDJT.
But, it is NOT PDJT’s demeanor that they objected to, from day one.
It was the POLICIES he advocated, and all that crap about demeanor and mean tweets is justxa manipulation, to try to decrease his support.
And the thing is, it was NOT his demeanor that inintially drew, and over time grew his support;
it was his POLICIES.
And so, a Politician can “look, sound and even feel” like PDJT,….But if he don’t have the policies, he ain’t MAGA.
Please remember that Reagan was TOLD to take Ford as his running mate. That was the GOP attempting to LOSE the Presidency. The KNEW that ticket would be positioned to lose as they saw fit.
When Reagan refused to take Ford, he was forced to take GW Bush, Mister CIA, as his VP.
And Reagan was looking at such a landslide, the uniparty had no way of defeating him. The reason for GW Bush to be installed as VP. I believe Reagan was forced into that ticket.
I am so sorry that Ronald Reagan was also put into an impossible position as was JFK (whose father actually bought the presidency to win against NIXON) with Johnson, Nixon with Kissinger and President Trump with Pence.
This is a recurring nightmare.
And yes, Kissinger was NOT VP.
Yet installing him AS SOS was the globalist crap to create the China unleashing.
I still believe to this day that Nixon, a Quaker and a paranoid man, would never have ever made the decisions he made unless forced.
Pat Nixon wrote a beautiful note to now PresidentTrump:
There is a lot more to this relationship.
Correction: President Nixon!
“But, it is NOT PDJT’s demeanor that they objected to, from day one.”
Exactly! I can’t tell you the number of people I know who LOVED Chris Christie yet complained (were brainwashed) about Trump’s alleged demeanor/personality. 🙄
your first “3” are spot on!….They have pretty much marketed RDS, now comes the soft advertising campaigns.
Anchored in IL, attached to FL, I am remembering how I was duped by the roll out of Kinzinger after Obama started show his true self….fool me once….not again…
Sounds like ULTRA is being used often,
I’d guess it may have something to do with unmasking ULTRA MK CIA,
if people took time to do their own digs and research.
Politicians come to governance not serve the people, only to see what they can get.
Only representatives do. Per Constitutional Republic.
A M E N !
He seems bound and determined to ram these tollroads all over our beautiful State to appease the trans national shipping companies and developers who want to turn the rest of our land into cookie cutter subdivisions and strip mall hell.
That, my friend,
is worth repeating !
“Politics isn’t, (believe me!) a way to get rich,…or it isn’t if done right!”
Kari Lake
“Only crooks get rich in politics.” Harry S. Truman, who drove himself and his wife home in their own car after leaving office, to his family home in Missouri
One of my mentors growing up was heavily involved in KY politics.
At the time, rumors were that the current governor had stolen 8 million dollars.
“Happy” Chandler, who was running for governor was quoted as saying:
“Hell, if a sitting governor can’t steal any more than 8 million in one term,
he’s not much of a politician”
My mentor was at the meeting and heard “Happy” say this.
This was in the 50’s, so just think how much the politicians today can steal.
I agree with every thought you expressed! However, the elephant in the room is the influence that those deep pocket donors would have on any DeSantis administration.
There is zero chance that such donors would have the interests of the grass roots voters in mind, and there will be zero chance the any DeSantis administration could or would disappoint those donors. After all, the goal of any politician, once elected, is to get re-elected. The fear of losing those big donations is what turns them into RINO’s, with a vested interest in maintaining the DC status quo.
So, I begin to question DeSantis’ true intentions.
It is ashame DeSantis has gone down this road. I agree with you.
There are still a few Tea Party’s around, meeting as the Tea Party.
Probably the only President in history who did not accept a dollar in salary and downsized his home when he went to stay in the White House. Also probably the only President with the most beautiful FLOTUS! Probably the only President whose net worth shrank after leaving the White House! And the only one that has been impeached twice on fake charges, and the only one (maybe after Nixon) whose election was stolen despite getting the most legal votes historically
Both Herbert Hoover and JFK donated their entire presidential salaries to charities, exactly as Mr. Trump did. They were also both very wealthy, and therefore also downsized in order to live in the White House.
Several presidents never became rich, including from the office. Grant had to sell his memoirs while sick and dying to save his family from bankruptcy. Truman entered politics in a great deal of debt (failed business), and barely broke even. Wilson and Coolidge had to keep on giving speeches in order not to lose their homes. Nine different men never amassed a million dollars either before or after having been president.
Samuel Tilden also won the popular vote, but lost the presidency (1876). Same thing happened in 1824 and 1888.
Beauty standards change with culture over time. Most First Ladies were considered beautiful by the public of their eras, and of course some people consider the position itself adds glamour.
I think your opinions might be biased by the experience of what presidencies have been like during your adult life.
History is so near to us all, Mikey! TY.
“Grant was also an eager recipient of valuable gifts for which he would reciprocate with patronage appointments. Between 1865 and 1869 inclusive, donors bought—or gave him enough money to buy—a total of four homes in Galena, Illinois, Philadelphia, Washington City, and Long Branch, New Jersey.
One of the seven donors of the 27-room Long Branch “cottage” was Tom Murphy who had been a notorious supplier of shoddy merchandise to the Union army during the Civil War. Grant later appointed Murphy as customs collector for the Port of New York where three-fourths of America’s tariffs were paid. It was the most lucrative patronage assignment available in the federal government.
Similarly, Grant assigned General Daniel Butterfield to New York’s sub-Treasury office in exchange for raising a fund enabling General William T. Sherman to buy Grant’s Washington home at a price that was more than double the price Grant paid only three years earlier. Soon after his appointment, Butterfield took a bribe to join Jay Gould’s attempted corner the gold market in September 1869.
Historians specializing in the Civil War and Reconstruction era may sometimes be more persuaded by Grant’s words than his actions. But, as J. P. Morgan once remarked, “A man always has two reasons for the things he does—a good one and the real one.” Philip Leigh, Grant’s Failed Presidency 2019
Historic Presidency, for sure.
And his second term will surpass the first, in terms of History making!
That’s why they hate him.
Just this. The working class rust belt and ethnic Catholics in the Midwest as well as the never vote working class in the south won’t come out for a chamber of commerce Republican
The ethnic Catholics include Hispanics from the Texas regions.
Right….those magic words….Chamber of Commerce :=(
Vote like you’re picking your way through a minefield: Be very deliberate and thoughtful of your next move.
Without losing track of where you want to go.
NOPE^
Why bother in any election that is rigged &
should be referred to as SELECTIONS, not Elections.
FIX2020 AND THEN VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
Or simply take everyone you know and go vote. Overwhelm the fraud.
Remember, if YOU don’t vote THEY will vote for you.
Indeed.
Winning 2022 and 2024 might be the only way to fix 2020.
Relying on fixing 2020 alone without pressing forward would be suicide.
Wow Sundance you said it all what most here on CTH been thinking about Ron D. I am not in Florida but applaud the Gov for an outstanding job for his state. But lil by lil I am opening my eyes & see he is not a MAGA guy like my real (say again) stolen election from President Donald Trump. I am still mad as hell President Trump is not in office instead of that vegetable in the WH.
I have started to call SloJoe The Walking Potted Plant. Kinda of fits better than SloJoe these days.
Josef Stolen, D-Dementia
That’s Perfect! 👍
I might have to “steal” that in his honor! LOL!
He won’t inspire like Trump because people know Trump is the real deal. When they steal the election from him, would people go to the mat like for Trump? No. But maybe they wouldn’t have to steal it, give us the illusion of choice.
Vegetable would be a relief, he’s Mussolini with Alzheimer’s.
And THAT is just friggin’ WEIRD!
I wish people would quit giving the Gov of FL such glowing remarks…while he has done above AVERAGE, the comparison to some of the less savory RINO brand Govs makes his brand shine brighter……were he TRULY who he says he is he would have done so MUCH more by now
Agree, its easyvto make a hamburger taste good, when all you have otherwise is balogna.
But once you have STEAK, oh, man you ain’t gonna want to go back!
And yes, a truly MAGA Governor will raise holy h*ll with the ruling class, as Governors have a LOT if power, especially with a Legislature, SoS, etc to back them up.
Pay attention to your “spidey sense” any of you who “felt” something,…off about RD.
Because, given the size and political power of the MAGA movement, they are going to try to send out Trump imitators, career politicians who try to tap into, or carve off a significant piece of the MAGA movement.
And, those if you who didn’t see it coming, now that you do, develop a spidey sense, go back and read Sundances article, where he pointed out the GOP Club behavior that are “tells” and that you see with Cruz, Halley, and Desantis; its how they roll.
Think with your brain, not your heart, don’t “like” the Politician, like his POLICIES.
Instead of “Wheres Waldo” call it “Spot the RINO”?
Develop this as you would a muscle; frequent excercise strengthens it.
Your gonna NEED it.
Dutch, My first “spidey sense” regarding RDS was in the very MAL photo SD posted in this article. During so much “down time” during C19, I started watching The Behavior Panel on YT. I was always a people watcher, noticing details, but I learn more from them which substantiated my “spidey sense”.
The first time I saw the MAL 45/RDS photo, I stopped dead and just stared on RDS for the longest time. Glanced at 45’s body language (all normal, a go), but RDS body language was ‘off’. The best way I can describe my ‘spidey sense” was that RDS had a ‘firewall’ between him and 45; a protective shell, so to speak. Plus, the head down, eyes..everything I stated at for quite a while conveyed to me that something was ‘off’ and he wasn’t 100% supportive of 45, or better said, what 45 truly stood for.
Months passed, the photo popped up ago and I stared at his body language from the expert panels’ hints/clues, the best I can as a novice. Again, a red flag for me.
I see that same today in that photo, but, now I know the back story of where RDS differs from bonafide MAGA. Earlier in the summer when comments began to revolve on the topic, I twice wrote he wasn’t ready for the oval, due to lack of foreign trade experience.
For me, it boils down to MAGANOMICS, and, now of course, the money trail.
I always will support President Trump. Currently, there isn’t anyone to replace him, but in the years ahead there will be. I’m encouraged to see you people jumping into races. When MAGA has a vacancy at the top, God will raise someone up, for such a time, so I’m not going to look too far down the pathway. We have the greatest President we could ever have staring us in the face. Much has changed since 2016. We need to get rid of Mitch. 45’s doing his best on that issue.
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How can DeSantis run for another 4 years, get it, and then bug out in a few months to run for President?
Even in a two year reelected Governorship, he would be mostly campaigning for President, and presumably mostly full time not 1/10 time like Biden.
Has he no respect for voters?
His timing would be much better in another 4 and what’s the rush? He’s probably got another 40 years to live.
The answer probably isn’t DeSantis but as an alternative to PDT. The big money donors don’t want PDT to come back and return their Wall Street economics to main Street economics. With DeSantis the big money corps make money. Under PDT main street USA makes money
Yup.
This isn’t so much about what Top Goof wants, but those that found a way to buy him.
The wallstreet crowd are destroying their own customer base….there will be no one to buy their shit…I don’t get it.
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that for a while. Do they think the Chinese will pick up our slack? I thought China was going through their own tough times economically…
So many questions about where they think they got their freedom — this country, that’s where. Who buys their products — this country’s people. Importing new illegals to “replace” us — without the American values of freedom in general, how’s that going to work? Slaves to make their products here? I truly don’t understand the “long term” goals for any of this.
They will make something happen to Trump. The GOPE simply cannot allow Trump to return.
Guess they are in between a rock and a hard place…..They destroy Trump and there will be no more republicans …the party is dead.
Yes, they are trying to figure out a way to finesse it.
They REALLY just want to ,”go back to yhe way it was, before Trump, before this Tea Party nonsense!”
And they can’t put the toothpaste, back in the tube.
If they thought that option was available to them, and would solve their “Trump problem” they would have done it before now.
I hope you’re right. I keep thinking about Abe in Japan. Was that a warning to the current Japanese premier (president? not sure what they call them in Japan)? Was that a warning to our President Trump? Was that internal politics or external politics?
While there are grounds to believe it was allowed to happen by malign forces, notably China, the murderer was of a disaffected economically unsuccessful class that had had his birthright stolen by his own mother donating his father’s fortune to the Unification Church, the Moonies, decades ago, denying him an education and more.
Since Abe had made polite politician noises about them recently, praising good works and the like, the killer decided to switch target from the surviving wife of the founder of the church to Abe. Sundance posted the following on his Twit yesterday:
The guy had considerable musings found on his computer, he would’ve been an ideal target for manipulation by China, without him even realizing it, he was a ready made monster. Of course, our Derp State could’ve done the same, for the reasons you cited, but China could have done it for that reason as well as the obvious one that it skewered Abe’s plans to rectify their pacifist constitution and revive their military, that survival instinct I keep noting Japan is still exhibiting in some areas.
Governors and Senators do it all the time. He sees the big prize of the White House and there are plenty of bootlicking yesmen around him to tell him that he’s “born to win” and “on your way to Washington”.
Because, those Governors and Senators want a part of the action and whatever goes along with it. Sickening!
The idea is to split the vote….but why does RD fall for this?
Have you noticed the new lines of attack being opened up against PDJT now that RdS has begun his play?
His virtual silence on Feebs waging war on PDJT, a citizen of his state?
The fantastical timing of it all?
He won’t be a splitter if there is no Trump candidacy.
Advertising is supplying eye and ear stimulation for the disinterested. DeSantis will need advertising.
Connecting is what Trump does. Trump does not need advertising.
Connecting inoculates against advertising.
I have been getting DeSantis money requests, I send back
President Trump 2024
I wonder if he’s sending requests for donations to people outside of Florida.
He sure does!
fka Serena Yes he does.
Yes!
I’m getting them in OK, so, absolutely
Thank you for posting. I will do the same!
And most of the corporate donors buying Ron DeSantis are actually Progressive Democrats in private. This is why conservatives have never had a grip on the Republican party. Wall Street funds the RINOs to maintain control over a very narrow policy range, dictated by huge multinationals who are no friend to MAGA. Control the party’s leadership and you don’t even have to buy off a majority of elected Republicans.
If you think Ron DeSantis will go in and fight the Swamp, I have a bridge to sell you in New York. The powers-that-be “allow” Republicans to nickle-and-dime on culture war issues. They are pure distractions to the real problems facing our country.
Dunno about you all, but I tire of all this chicanery.
Which is precisely why I voted for President Trump for 2016 and 2020.
I agree. I am sick of the theatre. I was for Trump in 2016 and never looked back 🙂 I remember when he ran and there were interviews. I am from PA and I remember a man crying and said he knew Trump would be for the
everyday man.
Phantom, great post. Totally agree.
Bingo.
I enjoy returning all of these fundraising letters with the 6th and 21st letters of the alphabet written in giant black marker across the front.
Same!
I LOVE IT….I like how you put that. Will do the same 🙂
Tempted to use it for TP, and then send it back, but there is probably some postal regulation against that.
I did have a waking dream, of everybody in the country sending something odiferous, to Congress.
Under the “Flush twice, its a long way to DC!” millions of stinky envelopes,..just to let them know what we think of them!
T H E K O C H B R O S
U S C H A M B E R
TPP-FTA..
thank you Sundance you’r work is making a difference prayers for you and your’s be well
R.D.
YES….Sundance. Thanks for explaining what DeSantis is really about.
I’m still vote ing for what’s his name ,
I heard DeSantis on Hugh Hewitt today. Afterward, Hewitt was shilling for him in a way that was so much like David Brooks rhapsodizing over Barack Obama’s creased pants, it was embarrassing — how many topics DeSantis was conversant in, how much of a leader on education he was, etc.
Clearly, we are supposed to believe that we no longer need to “settle” for Donald Trump now that a statesmanlike figure has arrived for Conservative Inc. But believing that also requires us to believe the Deep State has been subdued and only needs a stern manager, which is either naive or a lie. Very little damage has been done to destroy the Establishment’s ability to retaliate, and people like Hewitt are too chummy with the DC insiders to sway me.
Is any other Governor being promoted the way DeSantis is right now?
Nope. Not one. I think I even heard Hannity on the radio call him ‘America’s Governor’. It’s so obvious they’re grooming him to be Trump 2.0, the Wall St Friendly version.
If you look at Doormst Ducey, Az’S Governor, now term limited he could been a contender, but he flamed out, when his RINO showed.
Makes sense that Ron was the ‘good’ governor when all the others were abysmal.
Nothing is coincidence.
DS needed Ron to STAND OUT AND SHINE, so he could move forward with the ‘grift’ he is currently working towards.
DeSantis always has a weird smile on when he’s coming up for interviews, like he’s a hostage. Very polished. IDK, doesn’t seem genuine. BUT, I would take him in a heartbeat over what we have in CA so I hope he stays in FL and keeps that state great, and Trump is President, and we all live happily ever after. For Real!!
Used to love Hugh when he was still in CA but he went over to the dark side more and more when he returned to the east coast. Constantly having lefty “journalist” guests to fit in with the Beltway gang. I lost all reflect for him years ago.
Respect; darned chubby fingers here.
You may be a newer reader/commenter.
Hugh is paid by Salem Radio.
Just look them up.
https://srnonline.com/show/the-hugh-hewitt-show
A man can be judged both by the friends he keeps (ultraMAGA voters) and the enemies he has (Deep State). Deep State has nothing to do with DeSantis because he will be a good little boy and not cause waves – because the Deep State and the donor class interests are in lockstep. Back to business as usual. You will be hard-pressed to find Trump replacement once he’s gone. We will have to dig deep, and bypass all the professional politician class to go right to grassroots.
Actually, I believe PDJT has already given this much thought, and is already beginning to find, and nurture those that will be “the Future of MAGA”.
I have seen it here in Az., but also I see itvon TGP, where they are giving coverage to MAGA candidates stepping up in State legislature races, across the country.
Just as GOPe has a “typical” bio, so does MAGA.
Actually, in some ways it resembles PDJT. NOT the billionaire part but;
Successful career, never intended to go into politics, one day just said “Thats IT!” and left their career, cause they couldn’t stand by, and watch our country destroyed.
Blake Masters, Kari Lake, Cara Castrenuevo (?), Mike Cargil, and I am sure there are many others,..RSBN also does a good job, in the hours BEFORE PDJT takes the stage, to at least mention by name, and often interview the “downstream” Candidates at Trump rallys.You have to look for them, but they are out there.
“Thats IT!” and left their career, cause they couldn’t stand by, and watch our country destroyed.
IIRC that was our founding model.
Too Late they have made DJT a mortar…a prophetic figure….they don’t even realize it.
mortar holds masonry together,..or do you mean,…martyer?
He meant Martyr, which I was gonna mess with, but Mortar and Martyr in reference to PDJT was just not exactly comic material.
I will agree he is as much a bigger than life figure as any of us will see in our lives.
I must note though that I read Mortar as a form of munition, so that skewed my thinking a bit.
It is — here’s def:
And, one more:
Definition of MORTAR (noun): substance for joining bricks or stones; large short gun for firing bombs; bowl for crushing substances
Trump could be all of the above! He’s our glue, our weapon and our “crusher of” the deep state.
Nice.
But I refuse to use the term Martyr in association with him.
A mortar is also an explosive.
Mortar works too, considering that Trump is a bomb in the bowels of the DS. 😂
You said it. HUGH HEWITT….are you kidding me. I remember him in the days of Trump. How could DeSantis stoop that low to go on his show. This tells me all I need to know. Remember that pest from Univision, Jorge Ramos, that Trump had escorted out of his Rally. What a nuisance that guy was 🙁
I don’t think DeSantis has enough experience to be President at this time. I’d rather see him serve under the master, our real president and learn how to do it right.
My honest opinion, is Trump 2024 with Huckabee Sanders. Followed by 8 years of Huckabee Sanders/Grenell!
Interesting
Quite often, the VP is not even on anyones list, 2 years before a POTUS election.
Who was thinking Pence in 2014, or,..the guy who couldn’t spell potato, er potatoe, lol.
After DeSantis gets the Republican presidential primary, he’s going to pull back his face a la Scooby Doo bad guy……and it will be Jeb Bush.
I have a very bad feeling this guy is going to prove devastating to the MAGA movement.
No, if that happens it will be rino Nikki Haley or rino
Kristy Noam. Both are GOP corporate controlled
Yeah, they have to have a woman this time around.
Nikki is INELIGIBLE
It’s best everyone recognize early who he is, rather than find out after he’s elected President.
That’s why a New MAGA candidate has to emerge. We certainly know it’s NOT going to be DeSantis.
I know Don Jr. has plans in Politics. He could be the MAGA Candidate. He has all the right attributes and totally
Conservative. Pro Second Amendment definitely. Read his Twitter and check out his Instagram. He spans the far reaches of the globe. He is an avid hunter and fisherman. His Mother and Grandparents grew up in Communism.
He knows a Communist when he sees one.
I like him, and while he is Constitutionally ineligible, so was Zero and Kamala.
So who’s gonna block him without canceling Zero and Kamala in the process?
I’ve always wanted PDJT to be authorized to vacate anything and everything that Zero ever did on the basis that he was an ineligible illegitimate usurper and all he did was void. It would be the ultimate do-over, all in the hands of the only legitimate President in decades.
precedent does NOT cancel CONSTITUTIONAL requirements for office
Quite aware of that.
So are we to allow foreign Dems but loudly disclaim and deny our own ineligibles?
Or do we resolve it?
Perhaps by nominating an ineligible who has the benefit of NOT being a Communist Muslim CIA construct and forcing the Left to open their own can of worms?
If we aren’t prepared to fix it then on what grounds do we stand to hold anyone to it?
you do NOT honor the US Constitution and make a government that CONFORMS to the one blueprinted by the FFs by violating the very requirements for office…pretty elementary and ETHICAL……what do you NOT get about that?
You aren’t considering my question and I already acknowledged your own point.
Have you considered fixing it and how?
bought and paid for by GOPe and big business interests…did you forget that?
I disagree, I think our movement is now strong enough to withstand their attempts to split it.
Oddly enough, I received my first email donation request from Governor DeSantis today.
It’s the hedge funds buying up single family homes using almost free money that have distorted the housing market to where Floridians can’t afford to buy their own. Instead, they are forced to rent. Electricity is skyrocketing.
I am thinking that is going to be the case in many areas in all of the States to one degree or another.
The funds are buying all the real estate they can whether it’s single family, multi-unit residential, commercial, even out of the way lake resorts. They’re parking money in real assets to protect them from the collapse of the dollar
My Pastor’s son goes to college in FL and has paid $900/mo in rent for his apartment for nearly 4 years……nearing the end of his education he got notice at the beginning of the year his rent was to increase to $1300/mo and he only had 30 days to sign the new lease…he found new housing with less room that he could afford
So sad! At least he found another place.
They have to demand a change in property taxes…..they are being charged for all the newcomers….it is not fair…how bout it DeSantis.
Not unique to FL. Happening around the country
Thanks Sundance. I’ll go without a treat, or two, and make a bigger donation to Trump!
BRAVO…..
Might I suggest all to look for those Candidates for ‘lesser offices’, where true America First Candidates are running, and consider making donations to them?
They are NOT getting ANY funding from the RNC, after beating a RINO opponent in the Primaries, and they REALLY need encouragement.
As I said, THEY are the future of the MAGA mvmt.
I make it a point of honor to have contributed to kickass MAGA upstarts.
It’s a thrill to watch them drive our enemies before them as we laugh at the lamentations of the losers!
“…All modern republicans are incapable of executing a policy that is pro-U.S. worker, because every modern republican is a beneficiary of Wall Street, hedge funds and multinational corporate contributions.”…
And this in a nutshell is why they all change their tune once they get elected and head to Washington and why President Trump was so feared by the swamp, he wasn’t beholden to anyone.
We need to go back to the SCOTUS…and change corporations are capable of voting….this is a huge problem.
Ron Burgundy
We need that Lion over the uniparty critters as a bumper sticker. It will break barriers and Red Pill a lot of folks from both sides of the fence.
Stone called out DeSantis months ago. Remember the rumors about the infighting? They weren’t rumors. Trump is finally ahead of it and putting people in their place. Gloves are off. DeSantis could never endure what POTUS has. Don’t forget and don’t apologize for it. MAGA 2024.
DeSantis won’t be attacked like Trump was because DeSantis will be compliant.
There is only one MAGA, Trump.
MAGA isn’t just some fake label like ‘conservative’ or RINO are. MAGA is a philosophy that only Trump knows.
If you don’t understand the difference, and you read this blog, well, …
When Trump leaves the stage, MAGA disappears into oblivion. Remember the Reagan revolution? Poof, gone in 60 seconds. Remember Perot? Poof, gone. Remember Tea Party? Gone.
Like Bannon says “Trump is the vehicle in which populism, inclusive nationalism, and representative democracy are able to get behind on a grassroots level and use their agency.” We are the new “Polis.”
And include a dash or two of libertarianism.
WE have existed, at least since 1964, and Goldwater,..so not really “new”, just finally found our voice.
Goldwater, Reagan, Perot, Buchanan, Paul, Trump.
The GOPe/RNC has been suppressing a revolt of the base, for my whole life.
2 years ago, I would have agreed with you, and even expressed that as a concern.
Not now,..cause I look.
And, because I look, I SEE.
I see a whole ‘generation’ of America First Patriots rising up and taking slings and arrows from all the same sources as PDJT.
MAGA is NOT a cultvof personality, its about POLICY; Thats what “America First” MEANS.
The truth is President Trump knows how to run a campaign, and win, spending less money than any life-long politician.
True.
He even gets great deals on loser competitor’s canceled fireworks.
Yep, President Trump is a great fire sale shopper/buyer! And, that’s a good thing!
PDJT gets tons of free publicity and vibe with his rallies….no one else can draw the crowds he can in the short-term time frame he can
Actually, he’s by no means the first.
Over the years, many candidates have beaten opponents who outspent them by considerable amounts.
With hack politician competing against hack politician, $ matters.
But, POLICY trumps $.
Another thing that makes RDS so good for Florida that wouldn’t be a thing as President, a good Legislature. Florida Rs have full control and he can use his Bully Pulpit to get things done. No chance he could be anywhere near as effective as President trying to wrangle Congress, if he even wanted to.
Indeed.
Not only is he lucky in that, he is unlucky in having no experience in fighting a legislature that corrupt and oppositional.
Recall that PDJT reveled in the fisticuffs required to accomplish all he did even before hitting DC.
Not to mention the gargantuan globe spanning successes despite the very corrupt congress that Top Goof could never tame.
Even a GOP majority Congress resists anything that actually is pro America or reforms government
We are doomed, if DeSantis just turn out to be a gasbag.
Quoi?
No votes in my household for DeSantis for president. We are done with Mitch and Jeb Bush types.
Thank you, Sundance, for explaining why DeSantis would be dissappointing for the MAGA voters. I see now what you mean by pounting out DeSantis’ corporate burdens.
It would be far more convincing if Sundance could tie DeSantis’ big donors in 2018 to his actions as governor the last 4 yrs.
A quick search and it doesn’t appear he had any big bad donors in 2018 that he returned favors for. Certainly not Wall Streeters
Perhaps his 2nd term will show something
The big donors are looking forward and investing accordingly. They’re using their stock market technique. Invest in a stock heavily, and the crowd follows…what the crowd doesn’t know is that the big money folks have quietly created a hedge position behind the scenes to profit on the way up and on the way down.
I don’t like Levin but I caught part of his radio show tonight. He DIRECTLY asked DeSantis what he thought of people trying to drive a wedge between him (Ron) and Trump. DeSantis TOTALLY DUCKED THE QUESTION.
That’s a tell.
Keep your eye on Glenn Beck, he’ll be in Cheeto face for the 24 election. Beck will be on DeSantis like white on rice. The beauty of that, he always backs a loser.
I wonder if Beck still has that fake “Oval Office”? You think Beck will give DeSantis the swearing in oath of office like he did for Cruz (who turn out to be another self serving ladder climber.) ?
Glenn kinda creeped us out with his Cruz fetish.
Ron Deification Syndrome isn’t gonna be much prettier.
When does he anoint him?
DeSantis definitely does not need a cringeworthy ads. Whoever advised him to be Tom Cruise should be fired.
I agree. That ad came out very forced and insincere.
I totally agree. How stupid DeSantis looked in that ad. I called his office and left a message telling him so. What I want to know is why nobody is asking DeSantis his stance on the Mar A Lago raid which happened in his Home State. Why is DeSantis acting like it really doesn’t matter. He’s Fire and Brimstone on other issues in Florida. All, he sent out was a TWEET TWEET. I read that he and all Governors can
by EO kick out the FBI from their States.
I had posted a comment earlier in the prior thread about DeSantis with campaign contribution data but the formatting wreaked havoc on that page of comments. 🙂 I think an admin deleted it.
You can search here: https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/campaign-finance/contributions/
I initially searched for donations of $1 million or more. I see the following:
07/07/2022 10,000,000.00 CHE BIGELOW ROBERT T.
08/18/2022 2,000,000.00 CHE CLUB FOR GROWTH PAC
04/30/2021 5,000,000.00 CHE GRIFFIN KENNETH C.
06/30/2021 1,800,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
10/28/2021 1,000,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
01/31/2022 1,500,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
02/28/2022 2,250,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
03/29/2022 2,000,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
05/31/2022 1,250,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
06/29/2022 1,000,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
04/30/2021 2,800,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
07/26/2022 2,000,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
01/31/2022 1,700,000.00 CHE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FLORIDA
08/01/2022 1,000,000.00 CHE SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA
Ken Griffin is moving from Chicago to Miami, eExpect to see more donations from him. Club for Growth has been very generous. What’s up with the Republican Governors Association giving DeSantis $15 million dollars in just over a year? And who is Robert T Bigelow and why did he give DeSantis a whopping $10 million?
If I open up the search to less than $1 million I see a lot of interesting stuff. I encourage others to look.
Thanks for dropping the preformatting Serena! I had to delete the earlier comment.
Haha! After I posted it and I saw how wide the screen was I felt awful! lol
LOL…me too! I added a HTML tag to the blacklist….hoping it will stop this stuff from happening again. Fingers crossed….
THANK YOU!!!….It is a pain when the comments are 2 pages wide….I just end up skipping that page of comments
It’s an endless battle of cat and mouse to keep us in our lanes.
So it’s begun in earnest – the war against MAGA.
Once again we gaze into the empty eyes of the Swamp. And once again we head throws the storm… while the GOPe panics and RUNS.
The Great Cheat only succeeds ONLY IF BOTH PARTIES ALLOW IT! The second IF DeSantis get the nomination, the Republican will attempt to waterdown MAGA… alittle at a time until it becomes just a marketing gimmick like the Tea Party.
BUT, unlike before with the help of Pres. Trump’s guidance, WE AS A MOVEMENT ARE STRONGER AND MORE ORGANIZED! WE WILL NOT BEND THE KNEE TO THIS, AS WE WILL WORK TIRELESSLY TO GET Pres. Trump BACK IN THE OVAL OFFICE! We have faced the storm with Pres. Trump and he’s been there for us and our MAGA journey has only just begun!
Defiant, the war never stopped, and began long ago, but I get your point.
And yes, its PDJT all the way. But we need to expand it beyond PDJT, and widen our vision to offices at the State, County and municipal level.
And WORK for those A1 Candidates as well.
“But it also raises doubts about the level of grassroots support for DeSantis and suggests he’ll have to widen his fundraising base for any presidential bid because federal rules limit direct contributions to candidates to just $2,900 per donor.”
So, Business Daily Review is pre-supposing DeSantis’ run for President?
Alas.
And speaking of that federal limit ..
I have to find the article again, but several days ago I recall reading an article about how candidates for state offices in Florida are not supposed to use that campaign cash for runs for federal office, but that someone had done it anyway and IIRC he’s not being punished.
Florida apparently allows unlimited contributions. So I’m thinking DeSantis is getting as much cash as he can now and then he’ll use it in his presidential run even though I think he’s not supposed to, but nobody will punish him.
I’m going to see if I can find that article.
Let’s see how much money he has after the November election. I’ll bet he doesn’t spend much for his GOvernor campaign and he saves the majority of it for his presidential campaign.
Here’s the article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/ron-desantis-campaign-finance-2024-election/index.html
Few people noticed when the Federal Election Commission deadlocked last month over whether US Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida in 2020 had broken a law intended to keep money raised for a state campaign out of federal elections. But election lawyer Brett Kappel closely followed the case, and he immediately thought of one person who could benefit greatly from the outcome: Ron DeSantis.
The Florida governor is shattering national fundraising records as he seeks a second term, attracting gobs of money from Republican donors eyeing DeSantis as a potential presidential candidate in 2024. At the end of May, DeSantis was sitting on $111 million — more money than any candidate has ever needed to win an election in the Sunshine State. More donations come in almost every day.
Kappel believes that the FEC’s inaction against Donalds could give DeSantis a blueprint for how to raise money for a prospective presidential campaign while still running for governor. “Every time the FEC deadlocks on one of these innovative financial structures, it’s a big neon sign saying, ‘Do this! You can get away with it!'” Kappel said.
Publicly, DeSantis has dismissed questions about his future political ambitions. “Nice try,” DeSantis recently told “Fox & Friends” when asked if he would mount a campaign against former President Donald Trump. But the governor’s political team has already identified ways to turn the massive war chest DeSantis has raised for his reelection race into money that could be spent in a federal campaign, a source with knowledge of those conversations told CNN. “It can be done,” the source said.
DeSantis’ political team includes Phil Cox, a veteran political operative who ran the super PAC supporting former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. DeSantis’ campaign, his political committee and the Republican Party of Florida have also combined to spend $21,000 in the past eight months at Dickinson Wright, a Washington, DC, law firm that specializes in advising super PACs.
“DeSantis has built a team that knows how to do this,” the individual involved in Republican fundraising in Florida said.
A super PAC named Ready for Ron launched earlier this year to encourage DeSantis to run for president. The committee, formed by longtime Republican consultant Ed Rollins, is unaffiliated with DeSantis, but it is already airing ads on Fox News.
(I intended that first paragraph to be italicized, it’s all from the same article as the prior comment.)
He’s running right now for President but not formally announcing.
By the way, Chris Christie won re-election as Governor in NJ in 2013, and by 2014 he was an absentee governor who had started his ill-advised Presidential campaign and abandoned his own state completely.
There is no bigger fraud in the GOPe than Chris Christie — someone else that so many wanted so much to believe was one of us, when he so very clearly was not.
I call fatboy “Cannoli Poisoning” Christie..
And you do mean “big”. LOL
Gotta laugh, article says RD has a guy that worked on the beached whales campaign, forcPOTUS and then says “DeSantis hss built a team that knows how to do this”.
Yeah, cause this guy did such a great job getting President Chris Christie elected!
Remember his beached-whale unauthorized photo op?
Great times.
But the trick is to accept the funds then announce.
Don’t doubt your analysis at all….but why would DeSantis run and be a loser…surely he knows he is just a splitter candidate…just don’t get it unless the republicans have assured him a primary win “cheating” is the only way I think he agrees.
A splitter candidate is simply one amongst many.
Ron is running as a spoiler candidate, to legitimize the anti-Trump movement of the Club, to create the appearance of movement away from PDJT, to distract MAGA and weaken their attachment to its leader, to take the sting out for the MAGA faithful if they somehow take PDJT out of the running so we don’t march on DC.
As Sundance has already noted, it very much appears that he has already been assured that he would not be facing PDJT in the election, which directly addresses your question about him taking on a losing battle . . . someone appears to have told him they have their thumb on the scale.
His weakness after the Panty Raid and the sudden nationwide campaign speak of foreknowledge and coordination. I think perhaps the raid might even be regarded by RDS as a sign of the “good faith” of those that assured him his path would be clear.
Maybe a clear loser?
Charlie Crist came out lambasting DeSantis yesterday. All in on the message that DeSantis is running for President and that he does not have Florida residents in mind.
Is it possible that Ron is being led down a path of losing, planned by the Unityparty, who may want to put Crist back in power? Lamb to the slaughter?
One could easily suspect that RdS was invited to sabotage himself, n’est-ce pas?
Economic hurricane coming to his state with nary a word spoken about addressing it, whilst he is indeed opening himself to the charge by his competitor for the Governorship that he has no intention of sticking around to govern…
We know the Club is smart enough to see this, and Machiavellian enough to pull it off, wouldn’t one think RdS could too?
The Club could hardly lose I suppose, lose an irritatingly popular Governor allowing them greater control over elections in a state that all to often decides nationally and could be key to 2024, and if he takes out PDJT all the better, if not, oh well.
I’m getting Screwtape Letter vibes trying to untangle all the possibilities here.
Thank Heavens for Sundance!
Dammit! I just posted something similar.
That’s a good thing! 😁
Many candidates are ‘losers’.
I just did not realize that each splitter or candidate can receive funds earlier.
Or they’ve told DeSantis they will “neutralize” Trump and DeSantis believes them.
If Desantis loses and we get Burnt Sienna Crist, he is wide open to campaign for Pres, and all the big money conservatives new to Florida living under a new socialist Governor will pour their last dollar into his Presidential Campaign.
Goodness, yes. Thank you for the thinking cap.
Only candidates are bound…”because federal rules limit direct contributions to candidates to just $2,900 per donor.”
So, therein lies the ruse. Get the money FIRST.
Is this a gift, or is there any way to RICO these actions?
I may mis-understand.
Presidential, not state, yes?
I believe it’s essentially fungible.
Graft follows the candidate, or something.
Is Business Daily Review dog whistling for pre-campaign contributions?
😲
Thank you for this excellent summary. I would add your in-depth analysis https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/16/rule-one-economic-security-is-national-security/#more-231835
Spreading the word.
Simply put, RDS cannot run against Trump. He has credibility at the state level, and deservedly so, but Trump’s credibility with the MAGA base is without peer at a national level. If RDS runs against Trump, MAGA will turn and rend him. He is only a viable alternative if Trump decides not to run or is prevented from doing so.
And all it will take is for the Republican establishment in a couple of states to look the other way when the DOJ indicts him and the Dems move to disqualify him from the ballot. I’m looking at you Georgia. I’m looking at you, the McCain wing in Arizona. Same playbook. Collaboration. Quislings. MAGA voters in Texas and Florida can scream bloody murder and it won’t matter. RDS can even bemoan the corruption, all the while doing the work to qualify for every state ballot. Just in case the Dems succeed, don’t you know. If you don’t think electing judges matters, just watch.
McStain wing is dead in Az, hadn’t you heard?
We drove a stake thru its heart.
This again emphasises the need to take control of your STATE Republican party, and throw the quislings out.
The California State R party just censured a MAGA R candidate, whereas the Az R party has censured 3 RINOS, and defeated 2 State party cronies.
Get invloved in your State party, its VITAL.
I know- it sounds absurd- but what if DeSantis pulls a rope a dope on GOPe? That President Trump and DeSantis are actually working together….
OK. I know.
No, there’s no 4D chess going on. Just like there wasn’t when so many people hoped that Jeff Sessions and President Trump had some kind of secret pact they were waiting to spring on the Deep State.
What is, is, here.
I wasn’t playing the 4D stuff.
It would be the only way to stop the GOPe/ RINOS/ Wall Street/ “The Club” in their tracks.
I suppose, it was a hope. I understand the reality.
Are his big donors mentioned WEF people?
Good question.
Definitely a thread that needs teased.
I hate quoting James Carville but right now, it IS the economy that will drive the vast majority of the voters, whether they identify as Left or Right, Conservative or Liberal and the economy is in shambles already and still heading downward!
There are a few people, on both sides of the fence, who will vote purely on social issues and DeSantis might pick up some of those if he hammers on his fight against CRT and “WokeDisney” but he will lose potential crossover Democrats…
For the most part, people vote social issues closer to home but want a President who can handle national and global economic issues and that is where Joe Biden has utterly failed and Donald Trump dominated. Ron DeSantis has no prior business experience, from what I have seen, that would prepare him for such a role and that means that he would be at the mercy of the RNC, the Chamber of Commerce, and the McConnell led CCP Coalition!
The RNC and individual candidates need to make every ad about the sorry state of the current economy and contrast it with Trump’s time as President.
its like I agreed with a lot of what Ron Paul supported but could never get behind his isolationism on the world stage were he to be a national leader
Cause you like “being the worlds policeman”, unending wars with suicidal ROI, and think we should keep sending $ to the Ukes?
Interesting article here about DeSantis accepting matching money to the tune of $3.45 million. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/florida-playbook/2022/07/26/desantis-gets-taxpayer-millions-for-his-campaign-00047846
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis already has a substantial cash advantage in his campaign for reelection. So despite what could be seen as a potential liability in a future run for higher office, he opted to go ahead and apply for public matching funds.
Nice if you can get it — The governor got his first check last Friday — more than $3.35 million — from taxpayers. That’s more than DeSantis got in his first run four years ago, and more than double the amount his two Democratic rivals received.
No one, No one, can take on the deep state like Trump. Period. Not DeSantis, not anyone but Trump. If I’m honest I don’t even know if Trump can but he’s the only one who could come close. If DeSantis is foisted upon us I will not vote for him. I’ll vote down ballot but I won’t vote for another Romney or McCain ever again.
Ron DeSantis may be what we get. There is nobody like Trump, but I would rather have DeSantis rather than another Democrat. He won’t work against the swamp, but he might do a few good things where the Democrats will definitely hurt the US more and more.
I don’t know that DeSantis can win against a Democrat, though.
If he’s Swamp bought, if he is an essential component of why we didn’t get Trump again, would we want him?
I wouldn’t.
I would never forgive that and MAGA could never trust or survive that.
Brutus shall never rule.
I don’t think he can as WI, PA, MI won’t vote for him and he would also have to have an enormous vote advantage to overcome the steal in AZ, GA, NC
Remember the rallies in AZ, PA, and OH? Apparently Doug Mastriano let out that the DeSantis campaign set up the one in PA:
DeSantis appears to have engineered these rallies, according to Pennsylvania’s Mastriano, who sounded starstruck describing how the DeSantis campaign recruited him for the Keystone State event. (https://floridapolitics.com/archives/549191-lincoln-project-claims-christina-pushaw-is-ron-desantis-master-strategist/)
Supposedly TP USA organized these at the virtual drop of a hat, tres sus.
Much more likely this was a bigger earlier plan, apparently with MAL timing in mind.
PDJT has his own event in PA scheduled for 3 Sep
BINGO!!
The photo on the right, RDS in a blue and Trump in a yellow tie, who photoshopped it to make Ron look as tall as Donald?
DeSantis is 5ft 9 Trump is 6ft 2 – there’s something off with that picture
REMEMBER: How Desantis responded to the MAL raid is ALL you need to know.
If you can’t call out the FBI for that you are worse than useless.
Forget Desantis as MAGA.
He PROVED he’s a Deep State byatch.
It’s an inflection point.
what kind of GOVERNOR is he REALLY when he cannot even stand up for his OWN citizens when the federal government has overstepped their bounds
I didn’t need the MAL raid, although it was fortuitous (for us) and unlucky for RD thatcit occurred in his State.
Awhile back I looked to see
what public statements he had made about the 2020 steal, and his silence told me everything I needed to know.
MAGA needs to finance MAGA candidates.
It’s the only option.
80 million X $100 = $8 billion
$100 too much? Compare it to your total annual tax bill.
Who wants billionaires deciding.economic policies?
Astute post. Thank you.
The RNC is just another institution that has failed us.
Screw the RNC.
And if a politician is kissing RNC butt, to get elected
or to retain power, screw them too.
Im tired of it all.
What we have established, does not work.
Its broken.
The National RNC, yes.
STATE parties are another matter, entirely.
Its the Federalism principle, applied to party.
A lot of power in the State party. Frustrated they run ‘splitter’ MAGA candidates in the primary?
State party detirmines who does or doesn’t run as an R.
Frustrated PDJT doesn’t endorse a MAGA, and instead endorses a RINO?
STATE party is probably, at least in part who he listens to.
The other night, I spent a good while looking through campaign contributions to DeSantis. There is a series of maps showing the locations of the big contributions – 2019-2022. In 2021 and the part of 2022, he was getting a lot of money from Washington DC, Chicago, New York, Michigan, etc. and to look at the donors. It’s interesting to go through this site and change the year and what you want to search:
https://www.opensecrets.org/officeholders/ron-desantis/geography?cycle=2021&id=17657831
Of President Trump and DeSantis, only one is campaigning— actually, currently, and actively running for office.
This sounds like Obama doublespeak claiming DeSantis is “out fundraising” President Trump.
It’s narrative engineering.
Ankle-biting at Trump.
Seeking to sow doubt in our Champion and build up a replacement.