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
Today I learned you can “shift to get to moderates” without breaking the promise to “Never Back Down.” Perhaps this is the sort of wisdom one absorbs during cocktail hour at a $3,000-a-plate dinner. Tragically, I suspect I will never benefit from such an educational experience.
While this strikes my unsophisticated and impoverished mind as a contradiction I suppose I can rationalize it by considering this: if one never stands up to something one can never back down from it either.
🔥
Oh Kamal-Toe, you are making too much sense.
RDS never had much beyond fluff in his suit…. NOW you see how little
of THAT is in there…
never back down refers to refusing billionaire RINO donors, unfortunately.
let’s go ¡Ron!
Not sure we should even waste our time talking about DeSantis or any of the other R candidates. They are so far from Trump in the polls that they just don’t matter.
“Never Back Down”, unless one of my four donors tells me to. Then it’s “Only back down a little but not too much. Just enough to keep the funding spigot on.”
“Mostly Peacefully Barely Back Down”
This is hilarious! I am going to steal it if that is OK with you.
I thought that was my neighbor throwing out burnt meatballs when I stepped outside a few minutes ago.
Now I realize that is the westerly wind blowing in from Tallahassee.
As they say in Gainesville Fl. ,
Directions to Tallahassee:
Drive north till you smell it. Drive west till you step in it.
😂
I have always said ron disenginyouus is an ongoing piece of work in progress.
Ron Disingenuous.
How much longer until the GOPe globalist donors dump Ron and unite around Nikki Haley? Remember that Haley is a creation of Team Bush. In fact she’s like Jeb Bush in a dress.
Sooooo….Nicki is really Jenna?
Somebody tell WAPO…
It doesn’t matter. They are throwing away their money because maga is only going to vote for Trump.
At this point I’m not voting for any gop incumbents down ballot.
Careful – PDJT needs control of both Houses to have an effective 4-year presidency.
I do not agree with your assumption. Trump will never have majority support of house or senate even if they are Rs. He will need to clean house another way. To hell with both Ds and Rs.
I respect your opinion, but don’t agree with!
Anyhow, have a great night and a better tomorrow.
MAGA
Select who you can vote for and vote for them. Then select who you will never vote for and don’t vote for them? But remember, Trump cannot drain the Swamp if he doesn’t have a majority in both Houses. I guess you will have to be okay with that.
Don’t pretend Congress has no power over the President. They have a lot of power … and that’s how the Constitution was written… because we didn’t want a king.
Trump’s job is to clean house in the executive branch. The job of WE the PEOPLE is to clean up the legislative branch by regularly replacing our reps and senators at all levels. Admittedly, the Uniparty has made that difficult (voter fraud, ballot harvesting, etc), but we must take our cue from Trump: don’t give up, don’t back down.
The Framers envisioned this Constitutional Republic to work this way. They would be appalled at incumbents spending 40-50 years in elected office….
Term limits at some point?
Thank you!
Get so tired of folks saying “who they’ll vote for.” If one loves America, they’ll get to work NOW to toss these traitors out of their county & state!!!
Absolutely, he does.
Rs need to control both Houses, if possible. Then Trump can push Rs but with Dems controlling one or both houses, that would be impossible.
A dem controlled Senate wouldn’t approve any of his judges nor his cabinet members.
He would be impeached again in a Dem House and convicted in a Dem controlled Senate.
It would be a nightmare for Trump as potus for a 2nd term.
Then what is the answer?
I think you are way ahead of yourself.
Trump can invoke an ‘emergency’ thru the Insurrection Act and clean house.
He can do temporary cabinet appointments and keep switching them from post to post.
But the rest of it would be difficult.
H&HC, 2nd-16th
Good points.
The MAGA Recommendation:
Primary election: vote MAGA, not RINO
General election: vote Republican, not Democrat
This is America, people can vote any way they want, in secret. But if someone is MAGA, they should act like it.
yep
If we wait until Election Day to take action, that’s over a year too late.
Not necessarily.
Perhaps not necessarily, but most likely probable!
Who will you vote for, down ballot.
Pierre Delecto in a skirt & stilettos.
And watch out for those stilettos, she keeps talking about stomping people.
Pierre, Jeb, and Nikki. And she actually has the most testosterone of that group.
She’s a bully with boobs & no more testosterone than that pair of eunuchs.
The 3 stooges sans humor.
Lol… agreed.
And, she checks so many “moderate” boxes. She will fit in perfectly.
So that SOB just sh** all over millions of voters that had an election stolen from them. Not just by voter fraud, but proven election interference by the Intel agencies and social media companies. May his campaign funds dry up quickly never be replenished.
44,000 votes…
Election fraud by algorithm…..
And Voter fraud by well over 100,000 dead people still on voter rolls that, of course, voted Democrat.
…dead people have feelings too…
Literally….algorithm….I work in an industrial facility…computers run our process and operators run the computers…we use trends and controllers to control flows, temperatures, pressures etc…
2020 voting machines were literally set to put Joe tater head in the lead and keep him there in exactly the same way our industrial control software controls our process…
Here is an explanation…it is found on Gateway Pundit…
“A Shocking Analysis of Election Night Reporting and the Companies That Manufacture Election Results”
Don’t fool yourself, the R’s cheat, too! We know who’s hiding the fraud in my “reddest” state – an R Senator!
He went so far as to have anyone questioning the ballots declared a domestic terrorist.
I think the fraud is WORSE in the red states because many don’t think it happens in their “red” state. 🙄
…oops…could have said “votes” to indicate fraudulent but the actual term would be “ballots”….
Fraudulent ballots and corrupt algorithms installed joe taterhead and the fourth oblahblah admin in the oval office.
Massive election interference by ds suppressing the laptop story…
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The only jurisdiction this man has any authority to claim there was no election fraud is in the state of Florida.
How dare he deign his word to be sovereign over me and any of the states that are currently STILL FIGHTING for integrity in their elections.
Why? Because there are multiple methods of cheating, various manners of cheaters, and far more people who ‘know in their gut’ Bribem (Cheat’um & Howe) did not win in a ‘fair election’.
And remember the New York magazine story about “fortifying” the election? They admitted they rigged the election against Trump in an article in the magazine. They bragged about it.
Zoe,
Yup, they changed the term “stole” to “save” and “fortified” and thought no one would figure it out.
They confessed to the crime in their own words and, like you said, they bragged about it.
DeSantis is not authentic.
Oh he is authentic! An authentic piece of 💩
I know you will Sundance, so I hope to see your reporting here soon on how this will affect Rob’s polling.
I suspect it will look like that airplane.
Beastie Boys first album cover, more like.
(Psssst-Hey! Ron!….yeah you, stupid…tell Bigelow to go forn himself…get with America, dummy)
Better he exposed himself now rather than lobbying for being the vp.
Hey, I wash!
Once you see the strings, you cannot unsee them
Someone wise said that once, or twice….
…a very useful phrase when you have shown a horse the water….
Ronnie guess truth and conviction are meaningless, when the money guy turns you into a eunuch in real time.
Casey and the open mic – she is one of those “compulsive talk at you talker” types -he is kind of mousey/ pun ?/ next to her yakking away a mile a minute …so odd
Casey is to Ron what Christia Freeland is to Justin Trudeau
This piece from American Greatness says it all.
The primary is over. It is RDS who needs the DS to rescue his campaign. That’s who his supporters are.
Trump is the deep state’s mortal enemy.
It is DeSantis who needs the deep state to rescue his floundering campaign by neutralizing Trump, draining his campaign coffers and demoralizing his base.
DeSantis has no chance of becoming the nominee otherwise. But this deceiving strategy is bound to fail.
The more DeSantis legitimizes the deep state and its crusade against Trump, the more he damages his own credibility with Republicans, who sympathize with Trump and share his feeling of being besieged by a lawless government. What is DeSantis thinking when he attacks Trump (who, unlike DeSantis, is being sustained by donations from the grassroots) for using campaign funds to pay his exorbitant legal fees?
For countless Republican voters, Trump’s war with the deep state is the campaign.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/08/04/the-primary-is-over-its-time-for-republicans-to-unite-behind-trump/
It won’t matter if he wins the primary, he is getting nowhere near the presidency. Millions of us will still write in Trump’s name or simply refrain from voting. The corporate gop needs to be vanquished to the dustbin of history.
yep
I think that Trump did so much for us that I can help him defend himself for having done it. So I mailed another check to the Trump Save America Pac.
…more like a law-despising government….their only use for it is as a weapon against their political rivals
Please post more again.
Dear Mister DeSantis,
When in hole, first stop digging.
Sincerely, Murphy
Those poor people, they looks so bored at her talking. I don’t believe they believe a word she was saying.
Sorta as if they’d willingly drill a hole between their ears so it passes right through without registering.
Was the hardest money they ever made to be paid to sit there and listen to that bunch of mumbo jumbo.
They should have applied for hazardous duty pay.
Imagine taking a cross country road trip with her.
DeSantis, like Biden, is for sale.
Even the dumbest of the dumb know the election was stolen .
Biden only won 477 counties in 2020, 396 counties LESS than Obama won (873) in 2008.
By comparison, Trump won 2,497 counties in 2020, or 84% of the country, by county. Biden allegedly had the support of only 16% of the country, but mysteriously, claims to have received 12-million more votes than Obama, and 6-million more votes than Trump, who received 11-million more votes for his re-election, than his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton.
The fact is…that Biden victory is mathematically impossible
Yep…..crazy it is that those figures are almost totally ignored or dismissed by the people who are going to live out this coming leftist nightmare for most of their lives…and for their children…all of their lives…
They’re sleepwalking straight into a minefield and they refuse to wake up.
Such a smashing disappointment. All the stagecraft and stunts since 2018 to make Gov. DeSantis appear to be the heir apparent to Trump really worked. Then he is forced to drop the mask too soon and we all see him for what he really is: A poseur.
Ron is the establishment version of MAGA. MAGA lite. Just one calorie, not MAGA enough.
Ronnie, we hardly knew ye.
One kompromat from millionaire extraordinaire.
Joe Rogan impacting DeSantis and a whole bunch more.
I think DeceptiCON RON! is taking orders from the RGA. I am sure they have circled all their wagons by now and are cowtowing to the party line of no interference.
DeceptiRON
Love Miguelifornia videos! ❤
Did anyone read his book?
What book are you talking about?
No!
Governor DeSantis—I’ve been served meatballs… I know meatballs… Meatballs are a friend of mine. Governor, you’re no meatball.
“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…”
Shouldn’t that read “Never Back Down (Unless You’ve Run Out of Money)” super PAC?
That’s Wind Sock Ron, doing what wind socks do.
Listening to Jill is like painful. Like, you know, like she jabbers like, you know ?
Like a Valley girl but with the fake low voice like that Theranos fraudster.
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I’d almost rather go suffer through the Barbie movie than listen to Midge . . .
Meatball is at the buffoon stage of the campaign 2 months after announcing his candidacy and after 2 resets. I didn’t think they could get lamer than the top gun ad.
Whoops. Meant to link this –
So Top Goof is going to go with his Aviators like Biden?
This Hannity promoted debate signals that “This November” Biden will be ushered off of the stage and loaded up into a padded, short bus and taken to Delaware to serve out his term as president. This will coincide with Newsome strutting onto the stage as The Next Great Democrat.
Why would a presidential candidate agree to “debate” a non-presidential candidate? Is Faux news so desperate for viewers that they have to create a “buzz” in order to make people tune in?
Who cares
Faux news burned their bridges with MAGA and PDJT
These are my principles … … and if you don’t like them … well … I have others.
GrouchoDeSantisNever Back Down when you can bend over.
With that kind of advise, are we sure Bigelow isn’t working for Trump?
Or is he stuck in 1980?
“Moderates”? ..in 2023?
As Bannon says, donors don’t know bubkis.
>>”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.”
I believe that it’s worse than that. DeSantis is both riding on Jack Smith’s coattails, but also trying to aid him in the media narrative supporting the indictments.
That, and still working the plan – alongside the Globalist-CCP Axis and it’s UniParty subsidiary – to eliminate Trump from the ballot, and engineer a DeSantis / Newsome race.
Hi Tom,
If Dead meat gets all the support and money from those others, it moves him 5 points out of 50 he’s down.
It’s like the budget link from yesterday, the US needs about 13 trillion in bonds by the end of next year. If you sold off the entire stock market, you can’t come up with it. There may well be a huge sell off as BlackRock and company try to buy some time as they print like mad.
Biden and Kerry were both in similar shape at a point in their campaigns. They made it back. DeSantis won’t. He’s despised by his base, Kerry and Biden weren’t.
Even If Trump were to fall ill and leave the race, I don’t think anyone running now would get more than a third of Trump’s supporters.
If RFK didn’t have his flaws, he would get more of Trump’s votes than any current R candidate.
Your exactly correct. DeSantis is now Jack Smith, and may well have enough Gitmo type history to be just as corrupt.
I wonder if Rob goes home, and alone cries.
Oh my goodness, Casey. Really?
Ron playing racquetball down the street. The grim reaper outside their house with the kids pulling down the blinds?
What is she talking about?
Better she should not speak, just not speak.
I could go on for hours… She probably did.
Inside Robert Bigelow’s Decades-Long Obsession With UFOs
By Sarah Scoles
24 Feb 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-robert-bigelows-decades-long-obsession-with-ufos
Bigelow is a Democrat. He is looking for His government program payouts for Defense, and aerospace.
He gives weasels a bad name
DeSimp cucks for oligarch cash is not a new revelation for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. As a cuck, he seems eager to continue the humiliation ritual he finds himself in now getting it from MAGA king Trump, the base, and the chamber of commerce, national review types all at once like he’s at Casey’s first Bull Ball. The fact that he remains in the race despite this signals only three realistic possibilities: 1. He’s been promised he’ll rise after they bury Trump under the jail or assassinate him; 2. He made an arrangement like Biden in 2020 to clear the field and have the pro-sodomy, ivy league, globalist, WEF, neoliberal neocon vote of the republican party thrown to him and Karl Rove has calculated with his little white board that it’ll be enough to get him past Trump; or 3. He’s a narcissistic psychopath with a grandiose sense of self and a massive sense of entitlement. Any which way, I will never, ever support the man under any circumstances as he has no principles.
Ron you’re leaning towards the 20 million dollars away from 74 million voters? I am guessing at this point you know you can’t win.
Meanwhile Florida is left laying abandoned and angry on the side of the trail.
Obama sucks…he is an enemy of America…joe taterhead sucks because…obama sucks…
Joe tater admin is almost entirely obama people…joe is a useful idiot to them but a dire threat to the USA republic as the taterhead admin and their being wrong on every single thing is the intent of the obama people…
Their weakening of USA is intentional…they are of stupid…some are incompetent but their staff rejoices in their incompetence
This admin is not biden…it is obama…..
That is why Obama bought a house in DC when he left the Whitehouse, so he could keep an eye on the new occupants in the Whitehouse. When Trump was there, he ran his interference campaign from his house in DC. And after they install Biden, he’s running the government out of his house in DC.
This is why this is Zero’s Fourth Term, he was the Shadow President ankle-biting PDJT during his Administration.
Soon, DeSantis will be buying Hunter’s paintings.
Or in Hunter’s paintings.
🤣 🤣 🤣
Lolol…honestly…to me…they are no better or worse than a van Gogh or whomever…
Never could understand why some scrawlings on canvas are worth hundreds much less hundreds of millions of $$$…
But I DO get why hunter paintings are purchased…as I understand why Obama gets $12mm for a book which he likely didn’t author…
Mr. Meatball auditioned for his future job.
-single or double scoop?
-sugar cone?
-dipped?
-nuts?
Soda jerk
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While the dairy queen tried to drown out his existence . . .
Curiously……. Bigelow, who is universally described in the press as a “right wing megadonor” got his gov’t millions to search for alien critters through his good friend…. Harry Reid.
Did Harry Reid really have right wing megadonor friends or could Bigelow actually be working a different curve than we think?
He backed Lombardo(R) for governor but Lombardo came out of Vegas which in reality has very little actual (R).
Why isn’t Ron DeSantis campaigning from his basement? He doesn’t have the ballot machine to secure him a victory.
Even if they remove PDJT, he’s still going to lose.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/07/06/clyburn-bidens-economic-poll-numbers-are-bad-because-people-are-sour-due-to-covid/
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article275592011.html
Clyburn keeps doubling down publicly.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/gavin-newsom-running-for-president-his-fundraising-strategy-signals-white/
Newsome would cut Joe and Kamalas throats to get in.
The Nuisance is even worse than pelosi.
cheap suits have more fiber the him.
He just stabbed MAGA in the back. Laura Loomer has been beating the drum on DeSantis pretty hard. Some are saying he is done. If he cannot be himself and allows the puppet masters in I tend to agree.
Bill Ayers should have been executed for his participation in terrorist bombings in the 70’s….but he is “free as a bird” and Obama became potus…
Proof positive that the enemy has been within the gates for a very long time.
It’s about time the DeSantis campaign realized how talented Casey DeSantis is with a microphone in her hand. Hard to imagine the people running that outfit have held her back this entire time causing great hardship for the campaign. They need to let her speak. As often as possible. For as long as possible. The campaign needs a reset. Casey is the answer. She’s fascinating. She’s inspiring. I would damn near call her heroic. Come on guys. Take the layup. Let her dominate. Better yet, let her explain why the election was fair. That’s the ticket
Sarc? LOL
Maybe a leeeeetle bit
Really a shame that this man joined with the Bushes during a time unique to present history, that the man rightfully deserving of a third time to be president, has to battle his own party for the right to run again?
This is President Trump’s time, and time for NO other!
Not only should RDS never win any office again, but hopefully nor should any Bush!
And whoever thought that the Bushes were going to leave the stage after 4 generations of ‘working’ in politics, living off Americans, should have their heads examined by a CARPENTER!
Laugh out loud “In the time of chimpanzees I was a 🙉 “
Soy un perdedor…
The linked article makes a big deal about how the Bigelow SuperPAC doesn’t face the spending limits as long as it doesn’t coordinate with the candidate’s own campaign. I guess dictating the candidate’s position on issues isn’t coordinating?
TGP nails it on this with a headline:
Ron DeSantis Effectively Ends His Race for President
Rhonda Santis has the ventriloquist’s hand up his underpants.
The words coming out of the dummy’s mouth are projected through clinched teeth from the deep throats of the moneymen.
Please Please Please become more moderate so he keeps pumping money in a losing candidate.
Bigelow said ‘Conservative DeSantis’ was no longer his cup of tea 🙂
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