These two events are not coincidental.
Ron DeSantis megadonor Robert Bigelow (below right) is already into the failing DeSantis campaign for $20 million.
Billionaire donor Bigelow tells Reuters that he has told the DeSantis managers the candidate needs to take moderate positions, or he will not donate any more money {LINK HERE}. Ron DeSantis is then questioned by reporters in Iowa about the Trump indictment and the claims of the 2020 election being stolen. Immediately DeSantis changes his talking points. “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true,” Mr. DeSantis said in response to a reporter’s question after a campaign event at a brewery in Northeast Iowa.” {LINK}
It’s very easy to see the dynamic as it unfolds. In the big picture, Ron DeSantis has been trying to court the MAGA base of voters, the current heart of the new Republican Party. However, DeSantis has failed in his effort to pull away Trump supporters, and simultaneously DeSantis is running out of money. That’s the context for the changed dynamic.
Suddenly, short on cash and with demands to move himself to the UniParty center – away from the unwashed working class inside the Republican Party – DeSantis’ only option is now to try and steal some donors and votes from the Christie, Pence, Haley and Scott wing of the acceptable Republican Party.
Aug 4 (Reuters) – Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to a group supporting Ron DeSantis’ presidential bid, told Reuters on Friday he will not donate more money unless the Florida governor attracts new major donors and adopts a more moderate approach.
The comments by Bigelow, who gave $20 million to the pro-DeSantis “Never Back Down” super PAC in March, underscore donor concerns about the Florida governor’s struggling campaign, which has been unable to make a dent in former President Donald Trump’s huge lead for the 2024 Republican nomination.
“He does need to shift to get to moderates. He’ll lose if he doesn’t … Extremism isn’t going to get you elected,” Bigelow said in an interview, adding that he had communicated these concerns to DeSantis’ campaign. […] Bigelow said he would not donate more money for now. “Not until I see that he’s able to generate more on his own. I’m already too big a percentage,” Bigelow said. “A lot of his donors are still on the fence.” (read more)
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Aug 4 (NYT) – Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said that claims about the 2020 election being stolen were false, directly contradicting a central argument of former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters.
The comments went further than Mr. DeSantis typically goes when asked about Mr. Trump’s defeat. The governor has often tried to hedge, refusing to acknowledge that the election was fairly conducted. In his response on Friday, Mr. DeSantis did not mention Mr. Trump by name — saying merely that such theories were “unsubstantiated.” But the implication was clear.
“All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true,” Mr. DeSantis said in response to a reporter’s question after a campaign event at a brewery in Northeast Iowa.
The more aggressive response comes a day after Mr. Trump was arraigned on charges related to his plot to overturn the 2020 election, and as Mr. DeSantis’s campaign struggles to gain traction and burns through cash. (read more)
Casey is going to be big mad…
🌽IOWA voters "adore" Casey DeSantis❤ pic.twitter.com/RwyjMH14ha
— miguelifornia (@miguelifornia) August 4, 2023
🍨🍦they should turn off Casey's mic🤣 pic.twitter.com/Om57KUmiio
— miguelifornia (@miguelifornia) August 4, 2023
Too fun! Somebody ask old Ronny if he thinks US Government employees ACTIVELY LYING about Hunter Biden’s laptop to specifically cover up Biden bribery prior to the election is a legitimate action by Federal Government Employees…
This entire year is a great cleaving between the 60-70% of the country that now realizes the election was indeed rigged and the smaller percentage of Government Party members who insist that we believe the LIE.
PDJT has been proven correct on all of his “false claims”; Election fraud will be no different. Last poll showed well over 50% believe there were issues of concern. Election fraud deniers will be on the wrong side of history.
The fraud will never be “proven” because the Dems and their RINO allies block all attempts to audit the fraudulent mail in ballots. Forget getting this aired in the courts. The judges are controlled by the leadership of both parties. They keep refusing to hear any evidence.
They were hauling off the ballots and shredding them in Cobb County, GA, shortly after the 2020 election, in direct violation of our election laws. A concerned citizen video taped that treasonous act. Ruby Freeman is on video pulling out suitcases full of fake ballots in Fulton County, GA, where they also stopped counting, due to a supposed “plumbing leak” that, apparently, was completely fabricated. Go figure. No wonder why we Georgians are disgusted with CCP Rattensperger and Never Trumper Kemp. We want our RED State back.
Yeah, it’s already been proven ad nauseam. However, it’s difficult when the lawmakers, the judiciary and law enforcement (incl military) are all looking the other way. Banana Republics have military coup’s and always will for a reason….
The rats admitted they rigged the election in the New York magazine. They called it fortifying, but what the yactually meant is they rigged it against Trump. They bragged about it. We need that article circulating again on social media. I don’t do social media, but those who have lots of followers need to pass that article around again.
I’ll find it Zoe…
Deuce Bigelow’s brother speaks yet again….
I still can’t believe he’s so terrible in person. His voice is like that actress Fran drescher to me now. He sounds almost like he is honking when he talks.
And his affect is so flat. And any inflection is exaggerated like he is trying to do it because he was coached. He’s like that when he laughs too.
Like an autistic 14 year old.
🤣🤣🤣
So, now we know that Ron! begs and rolls over. Can he fetch too?
Aggiegirl’s favorite command for her agility doggies…..”Wait”…wait means another command is coming.
“Wait” is different than “Stay” of which this one does neither.
Some dogs “beg”…smarter dogs will “offer a behavior”….
hehehe…I saw the Red Stapler
Has this meatball ever had an original thought that wasn’t bought and paid for .
Nope…the “disruptive competitor” feeds off of the higher level and better product. It is also a cheaper version.
It’s hard to find the words.
What a yutz.
He’s just another fully owned and operator-controlled yutz.
Whorin’ it out and spittin’ in the faces of all the American voters whose disenfranchisement he just sanctioned will not pay off well for him, I think.
and about the people who donated to his reelection campaign for Gov because President Trump endorsed him. Think he’ll ever see another nickel or get a vote from them? Hardly.
You betcha. Floridians should be outraged.
He also had a lot of help from out of state because of President Trump, and he has squandered it all.
He’s worse than just another faithless phony politician. He’s willfully doing harm to the nation, which makes him no better than the rest of the scumridden swampsters and gangsters currently infesting the government.
You’re right,JannB. I’m one of those people, and I wouldn’t piss on RINO DeSwampis if he were on fire!
Bigelow is a certified crank. The GOP should have never accepted any of his money with any conditions whatsoever. If this is the eGOP donor base, write it off as a lost cause.
This also shows DeSantis is fundamentally a weak man. It’s a shame; he had such promise at the beginning. Especially for as a 2028 candidate. It’s best now he stay in Florida and try to be the best governor the state can have.
Trump for Victory!
When your opponent is digging himself into a hole…don’t stop him. Ron needs to get back in his Turnpike lane…
Hand them more shovels
Floridian here. I don’t want him here. We already have too many RINOs in Florida.
Go away Rob!
A moderate is a coward that indignantly huffs and puffs about the bravery of patriots, but then whines and complains about the cruel, devastating edicts of the misanthropic left.
Revelation 3:15-16: Be ye neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Too little, too late.
“Never back down?” A better name would have been, “Heel Boy! Good Doggie”
Teaching ‘heel’ has to be done with lots of praise….or food treats…LOL…this one needs both. Woof!
Ron is a chameleon wimp. Casey is his Domina. Weak men do not deserve to be President.
Ron is courting anyone who will finance his goals, and those goals are not beneficial to main street people.
I don’t trust Ron to “defend and protect the US Constitution against all enemies Foreign and Domestic”. I do expect he will cut whatever deals benefit himself and his donors.
He might be a nice guy, but he’s not “America First”, rather “America Negotiable”, and that’s a deal killer.
There is actually no evidence that he is “a nice guy.”
This is what happens when you whore yourself out to donors. They own you.
Nailed it.
Thanks for reading the MSM articles and posting the substantive parts. Even the few paragraphs you post raise my blood pressure. The blatant propaganda is grating. But I imagine the propagandists chuckling as they type out that garbage, which makes it a bit more tolerable.
Rob is proving to be everything we despise about the GOP wing of the UniParty. Not gonna lie: I’m a bit shocked he’s so fully embraced the swamp monsters.
Well, there went 2nd choice.
Ron is a globalist who voted for TPP to hollow out what is left of the middle class Owned by Uniparty/Globalists. While he tries to wear a MAGA suit, Ron does not have MAGA policies. He signed a law to hide from the public his travel records and so proved he is comfortable hiding info from Florida residents. He was never my 2nd or 3rd or 4th choice.
Answer: President Trump is the solitary candidate with America First economic and foreign policy.
Question: Why are they going after President Trump with massive lawfare. (see answer)
All the other candidates have policies approved by globalists, China and the Uniparty. That is why every other candidate is left alone (no indictments).
Don’t turn off Casey’s Mike. Let her talk. Within 5 minutes of listening to her, a crowd of 500 will be Trump voters.
I always wondered why things were so close in the race between DeSwampass and naked party boi Andrew Gillum.
This is how Never Back Down slowly backs down.
Best comment by far!!!! Very clever, Tango268
Perhaps it would be useful for Bigelow and DeSantis’ donors/funding sources to get to it and publish their remaining positions, for actual voters to use in deciding on another candidate. We already have Biden bought and paid for, Bigelow needs to re-focus on UFO’s and space hotels again.
Bigelow is a VERY strange persona self made billionaire, a Vegas slumlord and hotel magnatewho wants to put hotels in space, is actually doing itwhose corporate logo is a Gray alienwho bought and funded the Skinwalker Ranch NIDS project; biggest funder of paranormal, UFO, poltergeist, bigfoot, interdimensional, American indian witchdoctors etc etc etcNOW, his new project, Make Cultural MAGA Ron DeJudas Safe for Moderates
popcorn
Strange for Vegas is sort of relative. I voted for Lonnie Hammargren to be Lt. Gov because he could do less damage there than in the trauma center (and he was not the worst neurosurgeon there at the time, either).
Those space hotels will come with a contract by the Feds to house illegal aliens. His Budget Hotels are probably already doing it. Big government money in housing Illegal Aliens.
Maybe Casey did not debut in the correct cotillion?
Desantis dancing for dollars!
If a DC politician isn’t dancing for dollars, they are probably being blackmailed.
It’s a classic case on the political situation in the District. The politicians are totally manipulated by cash.
Kari Lake is going annihilate the Meatball as the campaign progresses.
Absolutely pathetic. Good grief. I think he’s more delusional than Mike Pence.
Donors telling RDS how to a act and what to do. What the hell is the point!? Just another puppet. PDJT all the way.
Casey DeSwampas “Ultimately he will stand up for what is right”.
We don’t need somebody that will stand up some day, when things are politically expedient.
Yeah, that was a disingenuously discordant note.
She can talk a mile a minute but the old gray matter don’t keep up.
Videos are hilarious!
These Meatball donors know they’re throwing their money away, but, yet, they keep doing it. Why?
Desperation and greed.
Par for the course for the Greedy Old Possums.
Her speech cadence keeps perfect timing to his head bobbing. Our NEW ABBOTT &COSTELLO 🤪😜
He’s already bought and paid for! What’s the difference between DeSantis and Biden? Nothing
Pull a string 🎵
and I’ll do anything. 🎵
I’m your puppet!!🎵🤪
He is my puppet. Puppet on string. Watch me play with my puppet.
I read on the internet today that Christina Pushaw’s great grandfather was the first pilot to fly the Hindenburg to New Jersey.
Oh the humanity.
At this point Meatball and his obnoxious wife are just tragically funny. I laugh at pretty much everything they do; it’s ridiculous!
IMHO the sixty-four dollar question is [a] Is Bigelow connected to Tom DeLonge and his To The Stars Academy, other than just the Skin Walker Ranch paranormal stuff? Because [b] according to an article by Art Levine on Washington Spectator, https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/, the Securities and Exchange Commission is now or about to investigate Delonge for his claims to investors regarding building a functional version of the Star Trek Enterprise. AS you might recall, real estate Tycoon Bigelow also now has an aerospace division. Enquiring minds would like to know if Mr Bigelow has a vested business interest IN NOT helping Trump to get re-elected?
You can always count on the RINO GOPe to promote treasonous Free Trade, Open Borders, and Wars, especially for Saudi Arabia.
Ron’s Red Stapler
Kinda has a ring to it.
They let him win Florida. He’s an acceptable Republican Uniparty member. When they need to flip it back purple and then blue they most certainly will. Same dominion machines. It’s all a game
Dominion and ES&S machines all over Florida.
As I told all my fellow FL Repubs & others concerned, I didn’t believe or trust that smashing landslide result.
Not too long prior, there were stories of concern that with still over 1M bogus names on the voter rolls, even Ron could be at risk for his reelection (not to mention his original squeaker).
They wanted to exaggerate his success, make him appear strong and invincible, in order to run him against Trump.
But they could easily flip that situation, turn on the fake names, spin up the machines, and voila, “Florida turns blue in a stunning repudiation of RDS, Trump, and MAGA policies!”
RDS did not push hard enough for election cleanup issues, especially FL audits in ’21. Because Trump “won handily.” But it would have been the perfect audit test case, showing Trump won by perhaps 9-10 and not just 3. And flipped a few House seats too.
“She’s Talking Again…” 😂
A politician is like a jukebox. Put a dime in it, and it’ll play any tune you wanna hear.
That Bigelow guy looks like a skeeze. Talk about slime. What is up with the midlife crisis hair.
So God did make a fighter. He named him Trump.
Someone get a hold of Miss Piggy, we need a “Balloons in Space!!” meme!
A balloon in space makes about as much sense as a Bic Pen going to the Titanic!
AKshoolAlEE, I know a madman with an idea on using such balloons in space, but then taking materials cheaply launched with space cannons as fill, that would be hardened with heat and such, so they have all the engineered structure compatible with other craft but are quite hardened to most meteoroids and cosmic rays and such.
So much potential, but so much short-sightedness, purchasing muppets like Runt DeSanctis instead of doing real work…
Somewhere in all of this weren’t we told RDS was some kind of military warrior?
Good grief.
Top Goof.
Jag at Gitmo – prosecuting our soldiers.
I thought he was JAG?
What a mess of a campaign.
We are watching the Meatball in his political death throes. He’s entangled with these hyenas, and it’s painful to watch. Have some dignity, pal. In a short while, you will become a laughing stock. Get out now. Your buddy JEB! stayed far too long, and Trump humiliated him on stage, in front of the world. The Rove style grifters will stake you out on the anthill to the last dollar, then drink up and head for their next con. Is that what you want?
Great post, Railer
DeStupid is really not very smart. 60+% believe the 2020 election was stolen.
DeStupid is now vying for the never Trump vote. His political career is over.
Pitiful he can’t hope to get the Haley vote why would GOPe supporters want him over Mrs. Rubio?
😂🤣😂
I love the links ! I don’t have twatter Thanks🤣🤣
Can’t wait until the discovery process of Trump’s trial…hope it will be broadcast live🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine President Trump being advised to move to the centre. And doing it. What else will he ‘moderate’.
I was watching a finance YouTuber the other day who was talking about the incredibly high home owner’s insurance rates in FL and the number of companies who won’t even issue insurance anymore.
DeSantis has a mess in FL so I’m thinking he knew his career was over and just wants to retire with millions of donor dollars.
You may not be too far off the mark on that – he saw it coming and got his life raft ready post haste after re-election – didn’t even try to face issues -just “ movin on up “ as from the old Jefferson TV show . BTW my Florida brother called me other day after returning from a short cruise – He said in the mail – 1) HOA increasing by $200 a month on his large complex bc of “ insurance costs “ and 2) his bundled car and homeowners ( condo) insurance was not being renewed as of Sept. 1 . unbelievable, or not really I guess
Course he saw it coming, he helped aim the market for just such a crash.
Folks are going to be digging up Runt DeSanctus’ schemes for many years to come.
But they will be paying for them much much sooner.