A very bad, terrible, no good news day for Ron DeSantis today.
A $50 million Super PAC scheduled to launch in support of his campaign was forced to abandon all hope after the donors backed out, essentially saying it’s futile. Then, moments later, the Never Back Down super PAC announced they were backing down from Super Tuesday states and halting all door knocking activity in Nevada, California, North Carolina and Texas. The burn rate on cash was too much and no resupply.
I said last year, when few would accept my predication of a DeSantis effort, to settle into an unemotional spectator position, watch DeSantis launch and implode, then watch what happens to the financed influencer campaign as the cash runs out.
All of these interests will radically shift once the cash dries up. That’s exactly what is going on right now. Two stories:
(Daily Mail) – A super PAC set up to back Ron DeSantis with $50 million is closing as donors backed out – while its founder said the Florida governor’s campaign was guilty of ‘rookie s**t’ mistakes and he will now back Donald Trump.
John Thomas, a Republican strategist known as the ‘Billy the Kid of Political Battles’ set up ‘Ron to the Rescue’ in November and had secured financial commitments from mega-wealthy donors.
But he said the donors began having second thoughts after the botched DeSantis campaign launch on Twitter Spaces in May. (more)
Meanwhile, the formerly $200 million funded Never Back Down Super PAC, the group that was left carrying the brunt of the DeSantis campaign costs after relaunch, has pulled all major door knocking operations from states. This announcement was more predictable, because we could see the burn rate on NBD being ruinously high.
(Via NBC) – Never Back Down, the super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, has ceased its door-knocking operations in Nevada, home to a key early nominating contest, and California, a delegate-rich Super Tuesday state, officials confirmed Wednesday.
They added that in recent weeks, the group also ended its field operations in North Carolina and Texas, two additional states that vote on Super Tuesday in March.
Never Back Down had pitched a wide-ranging canvassing effort throughout the early nominating states as the centerpiece of its effort to help boost DeSantis in the primary — even letting reporters inside its door-knocking boot camp in Iowa where it trained hundreds of canvassers earlier this year. The super PAC had planned to spend $100 million on the effort.
The decision to fold its door-knocking operations in Nevada and some Super Tuesday states coincides with DeSantis’ rough summer, which has featured him struggling to gain traction against the GOP front-runner, former President Donald Trump, since launching his campaign in late May. In recent weeks, DeSantis’ campaign has publicly promoted resets and staff shake-ups as he seeks to generate momentum. (read more)
Notice, this shift is happening after the first GOPe debate. The shrinking of campaign effort is happening as more people get to know the candidate. This is the structural problem. The more people are exposed to Ron DeSantis, the more his polling support drops.
Let’s pray the funding for the DeSimp army on Twitter gets pulled first.
I wonder if this is enough for Danny Boy Bongino to stop pumping up Soy Boy RD as the “savior of conservatism”.
I didn’t know this. Link please. Is Dan Bongino really backing DeSadtits? Interesting to see who’s been captured.
Bongino backs Trump and why FAUX new dumped him.
This from Ned! 👍
Regular Bongino podcast listener. Never heard him say a word supporting DeSantis for president. Always Trump, always MAGA.
Has he really? He’s been positive about him as governor, but is clearly promoting Trump for 2024. He says every show “all are welcome here”.
Trump DOES NOT need to welcome DeSantis. Hope he’s not that stupid
I wish SD would post a “watch list” of commenters who plant FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt) amongst us only to be proven wrong by ethical Treepers.
Would CJS make the list?
Clay and Travis commentators in the Rush Limbaugh timeslot who are not really conservative the masquerade
You don’t need a list. If the poster gives a link to support their assertion, you can check to see if the assertion is correct.
If they don’t give a link, ask for one. If the poster can’t provide a link, the assertion is likely bogus (or at the least they need to explain their info).
The other thing that happens on a site like this is that other people jump in with what they know and together we learn.
Didn’t DJT recently say Desantis was gonna drop out?….He has his ear to the ground as well and if the money is drying up, it’s a natural conclusion.
The only one who doesn’t know Meatball is finished is Meatball himself. Next batter up is Younkin or Kemp. But no one has a chance in beating Trump.
Youngkin is a lot of things but one of them isn’t being stupid!!! He isn’t going near this because he has his eyes on the US Senate Seat in Virginia in 2026!!! 🤔
And … just as I predicted … the former Presidential candidate has retreated to FL … to get LOTS of TV face time …. “rescuing the people of FL from hurricane Idalia”. In a desperate attempt to rescue his own FAILED reputation.
This particular argument is not fair. Managing the hurricane effort is part of his job after all.
A few months ago when There was flooding in Florida Ron DeSantis could not be bothered about going back to take care of it
He acted like it was some one elses problem and now with the Storm He is there in front of the cameras telling everyone what he knows about so much, and I am sure that he thinks this storm will give him the much needed bump in the polls but his Pacs are all backing out and away and unless he can con someone else to give him money he is not going to make it any where.
Yeah. Well, if Saint Ron tried to do recovery efforts from the campaign trail he would be rightfully criticized. He is still governor of Florida, and it is his job to direct efforts.
As a Floridian myself, he is only a mirage…mho
Sundance, you’ve called this 100% correctly, from the very beginning. I remember initially hearing good things about DeSantis and how he was doing good things for the state of Florida, but you nailed him from the get go. Thanks for your always on the mark political analysis!
The failure of the GOP is the result of their purposefully deaf-ear as to what the real political issues are. The debates showcased second, third and 4th level issues while the real issue is the persecution of Trump and what that means for America going forward.
Note that’s it’s failure of the RNC (Ronna’s RINO National Committee) branch of the Uni-Pary clubhouse and not the GOP. The RNC and GOP are two somewhat separate entities that at this point are on divergent paths. The head of the GOP is DJT and the voting block is MAGA.
Governor Walker to the white courtesy phone … Governor Walker.
I’ve said this before, We in the great state of Florida put together a fine Legislature and our governor rubber stamped all the laws that crossed his desk. God bless him. (His mistake was letting the GOPe turn his head.)
You guys are mistaken. When he was in Congress, the Freedom Caucus complained that he never actually accomplished anything substantial; that is, except the vaxx rollout.
The Tea Party’s ability to pick candidates is an abysmal failure.
He wasn’t in Congress during the vaxx rollout. He was elected Governor of Florida in 2018 and re-elected by a massive landslide in 2022!
Notice, this shift is happening after the first GOPe debate.
His polling must be worse, if it can get any worse, that we are led to believe.
Yep, Ron appeared silly with the delayed response whether he would support the eventual Republican nominee.
America doesn’t need a fence sitter.
MAGA 2024!
No, the question was would you support D Trump even if he is convicted.
There were so many “moments” with RDS.
“Never Back Down super PAC ”
Apparently the bus does have Reverse Gear.
“The Inflation Reduction Act”
You can tell these people don’t give a sheet about the rest of America.
Eat your rancid pablum, while we laugh at you.
A country run as a Clown Show.
Lol
He is just a silly little man. To be questioned are the people who thought he was more than he is, and threw millions at him to take out the GOAT.
Nikki the Neocon will be who they promote next
And she turned off most all of the people who wasted their time watching the B-team in that debate!
GOOD RIDDANCE!
“I said last year, when few would accept my predication of a DeSantis effort, to settle into an unemotional spectator position, watch DeSantis launch and implode, then watch what happens to the financed influencer campaign as the cash runs out.”
Don’t you guys dare to let that snake grifter Bill Mitchell back into the fold. We helped to create him, and then he turned around and used it as a weapon against us. I’d still love my MAGA brethren if you did help to spread his lies, but I’d be very disappointed in us.
ROFL!
If there were a laughing emoji button, there wouldn’t be enough!
Do ya think Ron! can take a hint now? Haha
Little factoid..as I remember the candidate can pocket any money left over from the campaign. Anyone know how much DeSantis will take home?
Does DeSantis and his team really not see the writing on the wall? Drop out, endorse Trump, and take care of Florida, Ron. That’s the only way you will have a viable political career going forward.
Ron D has further political aspirations and he wants to be in good with the GOPe. Thus, he’ll likely never endorse Trump. The entire GOPe still thinks we are going to go back to accepting their failure theater and uni-party nonsense. Conservatism, Inc. and the GOP will never actually change – until they are all forced into retirement and/or bankruptcy.
Please clap.
So, the big question is – where do they put their money now? Ron flames out, nobody else is close. Is Ramaswamy the rapper going to be their guy? OR are they shifting to Ramaswamy as VP to mitigate the inevitable Trump selection?
Or, something worse?
Kemp and Young. Why do you think Kemp refused to indict Fani Willis?
*impeach.
I’m sorry to say this, although I do it in love, DeSantis is an idiot! I said for a year or two that he can’t be dumb enough to run against Trump; he obviously is. I often pointed to the inevitability of his fall using the ancient Greeks: Hubris will always inevitably lead to Nemesis. He could have been Trump’s heir apparent, but threw it all away because of his greedy ambition. It’s really a shame.
Seems that it was also because of his wife, from what I’ve gathered reading here? Perhaps she is the power hungry one?
Introduce her to Doctor Jill.
I think that Desantis understood his chances but was prodded, encouraged, pushed by sycophants or wannabe’s. But mostly by the “Establishment Republicans” in order to thwart PDJT’s re-election bid. In my opinion, these entities convinced Desantis that he was The One in this Matrix. Unfortunately, this will have long reaching disastrous effects on his future opportunities. He would have been much more popular by remaining the Governor of Florida, at least for the next few years.
Waiting would have been a good idea as his wife recovers from a serious illness and they have small kids,imho.
A $50 million Super PAC scheduled to launch in support of his campaign was forced to abandon all hope after the donors backed out, essentially saying it’s futile. Then, moments later, the Never Back Down super PAC announced they were backing down from Super Tuesday states and halting all door knocking activity in Nevada, California, North Carolina and Texas. The burn rate on cash was too much and no resupply.
Then our GOPe-RINO-UniParty-Manchurian Candidate replies ….
“NO COMMENT…. We’re are doing just fine… ”
Cheer up Treepers! Mitch and the Deep State “Pick-A-President” model has been rendered obsolete for their chosen one. Their blind hatred for VSGPDJT forced them to back a plan that had no chance of succeeding.
They are losing their grip and they know it. Superpacs are pulling out. In business terms, Desantis is now considered a “sunk cost”, and will be written off accordingly.
Great meme! It is fun and entertaining to turn Alinsky’s rules back on the commies and radicals.
You called it Sundance!!! You said their money tree would be tapped out by the end of September if they didn’t get some serious stimulus of cash donations!!! By the way I am a Republican Comitteman here in Texas and the two guys, Jeff Roe and Ken Cuccinelli, are two of the nastiest, mean spirited political hacks I have ever seen when I had some interaction with them back in June!!! I don’t know how old Ron thought he could survive with these two in charge of his show!!! 🥴
Well! This explains why several individual states are trying to have President Trump removed from the ballot suddenly. They are trying to get him out of the picture so that people will switch their vote to DeSantis.
What they aren’t factoring in is that for us, it is President Trump on the ballot or we write him in.
We aren’t switching. Remember the old Tareyton cigarette commercial logo represented by a person with a black eye? “I’d Rather Fight Than Switch”. That can be our logo for the election!
If I saw that trio on my doorbell camera, I’d be out the back door and hiding in my barn faster than you can spell Dukakis.
“Is it over?” It never started; Trump was the overwhelming choice before Ron stabbed the people of Florida in the back with his lies, Trump was the choice when he transferred his campaign funds to run, and Trump is the overwhelming choice now that DeSantis has ruined his career and chances for 2028.
Ken Cuccinelli bites the dust. Makes me happy.
As a Florida life long resident, I’m wondering if when DeSantis, finally facing reality, drops out of race, if he will exact some kind of revenge on the good citizens of Florida who did not rush to support his campaign.
What do you think?
American by birth – Floridian by the grace of god.
I agree. He will enrich himself and do nothing to help the citizens of Florida.
“I said last year, when few would accept my predication of a DeSantis effort […]”
Heh. That ignores how you laughed at people for suggesting DeSanctus was going to run. Something to the effect of “Guys, Ron DeSantis is not going to run against Trump. My sources have been clear on this.” Then the mea culpa and “I should have followed my instincts,” etc., etc.
I just don’t understand the need to pretend you were right on this from the start, or the two other issues I pointed out (2. Won’t get indicted on the classified docs case, and 3. Twitter isn’t being scraped).
Anyway, the reason the money is drying up is because they now see Vivek as their better option.
Rob’s high-profile “moderate” Democrat supporters (Elon Musk-types) have decided DeSanctus can’t win, and they prefer Vivek now anyway. They’ll make Trump an offer: “We’ll help you win if you make Vivek your VP. He’ll be our voice inside the WH until 2028 when we’ll have full control of the agenda.”
Vivek has tremendous political talent. I don’t trust a word he says, but boy can he sell it. His pitch to Trump will be: “I’ve ran an entire campaign repackaging and rephrasing your entire agenda, and people love it. I can sell your agenda to people that won’t buy it from you because you’re you. Make me your VP and I’ll push America First to the ‘moderate’ left and independents.” Trump will say yes.
I think you’re getting Sundance mixed up with someone else. Sundance made it pretty clear that he didn’t really care for DeSantis but would vote for him as governor only. He was pretty muted on his criticism during the governor campaign. You could totally tell he was holding back.
I dont think so, that little phony will not get to be President Trumps VP and I believe that he has already picked all of his team and should have by now picked his own VP and he will not allow them to do what they did before with Pence, The biggest Traitor in this country
and why News Max and others are giving this idiot a voice I will never understand but they are and I for one turn the dang Channel when Pence is on and I cant stand to listen to Verki He makes me want to throw something at my TV because he is anything but President Trump type
And Christie tells MSPMSNBC that he’s inching closer to Trump. Major belly laugh.
On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
When somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table,
And on to the floor,
And then my poor meatball,
Rolled out of the door.
Then rolled back to Florida where you aren’t liked anymore.
Imagine having an ego bigger than oneself.
😂🤣😂🤣 MAGA 👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
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