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.
Made my day!!!
Kemp is toast if he puts his frat beanie into the ring.
He is Charmin soft and pig excrement dirty.
The ACLU caught Kemp and Ratbugger the SOS illegally raking off money from voting machine sales and government grants, so they wanted a modest amount of money and a lot of access into the voting apparatus of the state. In the criminal underworld, no heist goes unnoticed …. and if it is by those not fixed with the insiders, then there is street tax. Delivering GA to the Dems was Kemp and Ratbugger’s street tax.
“Squeal like a pig, Kemp-boy! Or we’ll blow you up like your daughter’s boyfriend.”
Same with Youngkin of Virginia. He’s moderate, and from VA, so that implies he’s a soft and inbred fratboy too.
Is Glenn’s last name indicative of his sexual preferences?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Same here!💃💃💃💃
“ Never Back Down super pac announced they were backing down”
LOL
IALTO! (I always love that one!)
He backed down the moment he made his first major campaign event by flying to Israel to make a groveling spectacle of himself!
Should have changed their name to Never Back Ron.
Gotta love the PINK, with Casey driving. She’s definitely the one in charge. As more of the SHTF the less relevant all the posers will be trying to sound important. We the treeple have seen much of this coming (hat tip SD), but 10’s of millions more are wide awake now. Old Mules, whatcha got?
Casey is another Jill Biden.
The empty vessel drifts off, rudderless, into political oblivion.
Well, funny that🤣
Listless, right?
Calling others what they are.
So who will be the next to pick up the baton.
There is no one of those that is saleable to the massive President Trump movement.
In President Trumps media post a suggestion was made that a major De stupid donor may shift his way.
Cheers!
From the ones currently in? They’ll try to push Haley, I think. They might drag Kemp into this since he’s a Bush stooge and since he’s clearly working to elevate his profile, bringing himself into further controversy with PDJT…
The RINOS have no shortage of WAR PIGS to choose from!
Unfortunately for them Republican voters don’t want war.
“War Pigs” – love the Ozzie nod.
“War Pigs” vs “Iron Man”
If nothing else, it would be interesting to see how the left would defend a possible witness to the corrupt charges against Trump…and announced as an opposition candidate.
Yes.
And who knows? Tucker just bashed Trump again basically calling him too old like Biden??!!!
Well that’s the Rino/Bush narrative! They want a DeRino/Newsome runoff.
Tucker should not be supported anymore! There was talk years ago about him running for president. Now he’s bashing Trump again?!!! Omg. What a Rino traitor ! He is out of a job and might have political ambitions? Or he’s a Rino ?!
Never watched his show. He had a fake face that was a dead giveaway.
Where did he say that, I have not heard that
Thanks!
They may try to push Ramaswampy…but there’s so many dangling shoes waiting to drop
Their efforts will now try and move to removing Trump from the ballot and at the Convention to replace him with Kemp, most likely. But perhaps since DeSantis’ people were outted as the ones behind the effort in New Hampshire, it should be obvious that they’re behind it in all states, red, blue or otherwise. From here, the attempts to make Trump’s support drying up look natural will turn into a full blown emotional temper tantrum. Either they try to suspend elections because they declare war or something else. But keep in mind that those who have been brainwashed will cheer any endeavor to keep what they think is their power in hand.
Please clap
(Sorry, I just can’t resist! 😂🤣😂)
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ANd Boy, has Dilley done a great job!! Along with Sundance, talk about effective educating the people. . 👍🏼👍🏼
I heard this earlier on War Room, and then of course, with Kemp’s profile being elevated against PDJT, I figured it was switcharoo time. DeSantis is over for 2024 at least, maybe forever. They’re pulling the plug on him, and I think this may be the beginning of their attempt to shove in Brian Kemp because they own his butt and he’s been a good gubernatorial stooge ever since they bought him. Or threatened him. Or both.
Kemp would be hilarious…90% of folks likely have no idea who he is.
Wait till President Trump starts on him.
These clowns must be getting awfully desperate.
Cheers!
You gave me the best laugh of the week with “wait till President Trump starts on him.” Let it be so!
👍
If Jimmy Carter had a bastard RINO son it would be Kemp.
Kemp, running for governor in Rednack Georgia, could barely beat an overweight Black woman who had never accomplished anything in her life and the RINOS think he can win the Presidency ?
They’re counting on running a selection, not an election.
Well, it worked for the Democrats.
They can roll out the first campaign for governor ads where Kemp is sitting in from of a fireplace with his dog and a shotgun on his lap. That ought to stir some interest. Isn’t Kemp also owned by the Chinese?
Why yes He is! And he also has sold every county in Georgia to the Highest Bidder…filling his pockets in the process..just another Boss Hogg!
And he prays alot…
“In Jesus name, Amen”….that’s the good ole Southern Boy…
PDJT will roast him👋👋
Mark
Several weeks (or months ago), I made that assertion regarding Kemp with a comment about “Kemp on deck.”
Several vehemently disagreed with me and I may very well be wrong.
But, it was a logical conclusion for me with the inevitable demise of Meatball.
My reasoning was that everyone else was weak, were being exposed and would be further exposed. And that is happening.
Some folks thought Youngkin but I didn’t see that viable either.
My reasons for Kemp were: he, like the other candidates, is a DS/IC asset (imo), has the support of the Globalist elites (recent WEF shenanigans as well as Sea Island) and is compromised/controlled by the CCP as well.
Notwithstanding Biden’s mental issues and obvious long term, high level corruption issues, Kemp has the same profile that ‘they’ can all protect their various interests.
Kemp has a lot of dirt that can be exposed, but if ‘they’ delay his entrance, some of the effect of those revelations may not have enough time to resonate with the electorate to the degree that it has, is and will continue with the other candidates. I say this trying to think like ‘they’ would think.
BK, I agree with all of that. I think they’ll hold their fire a little longer, let DeSantis run his inevitable course, then you’ll see Fox start to push Nikki and probably at some point Kemp. They have been working this corner (GA) for a long time. The payment is coming due, and I imagine they’ll try to push Boss Hogg pretty hard if he goes. It’s still speculative, but I can see it happening. He’s got that look about him that screams “I want powah!” And he’s more than happy to wield it for evil’s sake. Their kind of guy…
Sundance has told us to keep an eye on Kemp too.
Since he stole Georgia for Biden, I’m sure they owe him, but we MAGA’s know him. Never in a million years!!
buh-bye ¡Ron!
don’t let the door hit ya, and all that jazz
the bud-lite RINO…
See ya later, alligator…
After while, crocodile.
Scratch one Meatball.
Lawfare is their only hope. Nobody can defeat Trump out in the sunshine.
Yup, I said it before:
Ron DeSantis: Never Back Down . . . is now . . . Ron!?: NEVER!
Watch out, Florida. This petty little dipstick is going to take his anger out on y’all!
DeSantis’ sycophants launched an effort to lie by saying that President Trump told people to ignore DeSantis’ hurricane speeches and hurricane help information. It caused a Twitter buzz, I understand. Of course, it was soon shown to be a lie.
So how much money does Ron pocket for this charade?
That’s a very good question Kitty
Enough so that Ron can have Lifts for Life, but with the his wife’s wardrobe needs ?
His wife will be pissed.
She has delusions of grandeur.
Establishment Republicans realized that none of the clowns running against Trump in the GOP primary can stop him, therefore they decided the only anti-Trump they would coalesce behind is Joe Biden just like they did in 2020. They will do everything they can to enable him to steal 2024 like he stole 2020
Ok , who ‘s ready for their next closeup , Mr. DeMille , I mean Mr. Murdoch ..?
The entire premise was boneheaded. As if the vicious people who made up slanders about DJT and then attacked him based on their imaginary world, would have spared Ron and Casey DeSantis? No way. They would have been mauled and spit out before breakfast.
Bizarroworld of liars
I detect a strong whiff of fear … and with an undertone of brimstone
DeSantis, a political Black Hole.
I want to feel bad for him but I can’t. He rode PDJT’s coattails and mimicked his every move and taking point. Then he turned into a backstabbing opportunist. Just like the RINO Party he thought MAGA was a bunch of dummies. The public saw right through him. RAT
He was an OP from the get-go. A faker. A fraud. A phony. Ungrateful to the man who made him Governor. Disloyal to his voters and his country.
The obvious has now been made obvious. It’s Trump or no one wrapped in bacon. Now we can see who the Americans are and the Anti-Americans. Makes the assignments a lot easier. Smoking lamp is lit for one. Fall out.
It has always been Trump or no one. When they realize that it will be Trump’s coattails that elect Republicans in marginal districts, even the Republicans will start to get behind him.
I could see clearly in June of 2015.
Meatball’s high “C”…and then Casey’s brows…. 🤣 🤣 🤣
Every time I see your avatar I get a good laugh. It’s great!
Guard Cats ‘R Us! 😀
I’m dying here!! 🤣🤣🤣
Never Shut Up!!
Excellent!!! 😂🤣
Love Dilly. This is funny and creepy, all at the same time.
That was wonderful!
Thank you.
Expected. I watched Caroline Wren on WarRoom several times commenting on the DeSantis campaign and the way they were spending cash. She is an expert on financing campaigns and said he would be out of cash by sometime in September and would have to drop out by October.
I’m not an expert, but I knew it would take no more than 3 months, like Bush, like Walker. They are all DUDS!
Sundance and Warroom….my main sources of information.
What about his upcoming debate with Gavin Newsom? Or has that been cancelled? I can’t stand Sean Hannity. He’ll do anything for a buck.
That’s a good question , can the early ticket holders get a refund ?
Let Hannity debate him!!!
Has Ron Jumped on the Senate Seat choo -choo yet , or will he wait for like a respectable 4 or 5 days ?
Bet he’s cratered so hard with donors that there’s no love for him in that effort.
Been fighting to ensure his political future is dead and if he chases the Senate we aren’t backing down!
He had a hard time against Trump in Florida, what do you think Rick Scott is gonna do to him? He couldn’t beat Charlie Crist in a debate. CHARLIE CRIST!
All the Bushies and old Carl Rove couldn’t put Ronnie together again. Say hello to Steve Cortez for me.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good one.
I thought about Steve Cortez yesterday after this news. Bannon said he was done for him on the War Room after he jumped on the DeSantis train. Good lesson for some of these people. Burned bridges and all.
I thought DeSantis would give President Trump a run for the money. I was wrong.
Trump’s going to win the nod without having to debate Mr Christie. That’s fine with me.
Gosh – and Newsweek’s running a headline ‘Desantis overtakes Trump in poll.’
…right next to Ukraine WINS MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH! LOL
After ALL SAVED FROM TITANIC
Really?
Last gasps.
“and he will now back Donald Trump.” John Thomas
That *FishEye* Picture
is Hilarious 😄
Who Would Answer the
Door after Seeing That Group out the Peephole 😄
(or on the RING😜😁😂)
Maybe we should pitch in and buy Cardillo a case of Bud light.
Have you seen the new beer called ” Ultra Right ” ?
I’m looking at it. And thinking you could include a picture of it with the case of bud light.
I just tell them Trump Won or Trump is your President and then kindly shut the door on their face. The sign on the door says so too. Simple Post It Notes since Nov. 2020 Gets the mail man triggered but I dont mind because he still wears a freaking mask.
I expect them to shift towards Nikki Haley
Ugh…Boss Girl….🤮
What, no Vivek the Swamydingdong?
“Slick” Vik Obamaswamy.
She is another loser.
🤣🤣🤣
Never Back Down! (unless your candidate sucks and you’ve run out of other peoples’ money).
Abandoning Nevada works for me. We don’t need anymore hot air than we already have.
Everybody here that I talk with pretty much says to hell with the primary, it’s going to be Trump against whoever the Dems can put a saddle on.
Punt the Runt!
Where’s Sparky?
😁
Telling her GRAND KIDS to stop laughing…🤣
The “tell” for the impending implosion might have been that video of that Punshaw gal going to her yoga class apparently midday / midweek / mid campaign and then running into the hotel /spa when video guy caught up to her – She looked like she was dodging a process server in a divorce case , not a confident reaction by any means .
He called me deplorable.
Chin up.😂
Just so he didn’t call you listless.
Life lesson number one: Never ever sell out to a billionaire (or someone with money to squander).
Celebrate! We are the R base. GOPe will never accept it but they are the dinosaurs. We are the future! We are gaining more grassroots power every day. We are winning! They are scared.
It’s beautiful. I love it! Crash n’ burn, Lil Ron.
I wonder, would Trump ever consider cutting a deal with the Uniparty? As in, you call off the Lawfare, and I won’t tear your throats out once I win.
It has its advantages for Trump. He needs to get busy on the economy, foreign policy disasters, immigration madness and all the rest. Might such a deal help him(and us) now and in the future? Plus, he gets what he wants now, and they MIGHT get what they want in the future, if they act right. Blackmail is a wonderful thing.
The Uniparty is holding a horrible hand right now. And if they double down on a bad bet, things could get very bad for them, in ways not foreseen. A complete backlash is their nightmare.
I would enjoy Trump tearing out throats, mind you. But what is the greater good?
Sorry Total Fantasy . What’s that expression ? Oh yea- Wake up and smell the coffee .
Well, Trump had to hire Manafort in 2016, to cut a deal with his fellow Uniparty crooks before the convention, so there is precedent. It’s politics, deals are always made. Trump knew Manafort was a miserable scumbag, and obviously he only hired him because the Uniparty would only talk openly with somebody as dirty as them, who was them in fact.
And Trump never brought him into his inner circle, or shared much with him. After Manafort was arrested, Trump said “He’ll have to walk his own road”. He cut him loose. He had use only for the deal before the convention. We’ll never know the details of that deal, nor the ones Trump will cut this time. But there will be a deal, and I’d guess Trump will get what he wants from it. He always does.
please , your writing the full screen play …I’ll stop reading now
Sounds good.
Sounds good. Then afterwards he still tears out their throat….
Nope. I want him to tear their throats out. I suspect a LOT of deplorables feel the same way as well! The uniparty must be destroyed, imho.
Problem is, it’s going to take a few decades to destroy the Uniparty. They stymied Trump for 4 years, then stole the election. We can reverse that in 2024, but the Uniparty will still hold ALL of the high ground. They can stymie again, and wait him out.
We sat still and voted for Faux News Uniparty candidates for decades, and they have created a fascist government. Rolling that back isn’t an event, it will be a process. The Uniparty is expert at burying their criminals, using process against us. And taking them head on depletes MAGA from doing what the country needs economically and otherwise. I’d rather blackmail them. Get them on the defensive and whittle them down. They whittled us down over decades, and I foresee similar duration for the fightback.
And RDS influencers have been abating on this site noticeably and rapidly of late, imo. Seems their pay may have dried up.
I still think at some point, ‘they’ will trot out Kemp before Super Tuesday.
Da Vek groupies incoming.
They’ve lost steam too, but they were delusional from the start so here they’ll be.
They were a little easier to flush out. And were always mad as hell when called out.
Kinda like those South Asian spam con phone callers when you call them out. They always get mad as hell every single time. Must be some cultural thing. Idk.
I kind’a miss sparky.
Here’s my middle finger to those of you who claimed ad nauseam this was going to be about DeSanctimonious vs President Trump over COVID. Blow it out your ear suckers!
P.S. I recently figured out Walmart Casey’s camo outfit from Iowa. She was channeling her inner Mr. Z, Porn King of Ukraine.
Mr.Z, the former trans actor.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Here’s what the DeSantis loving Right (wrong) scoop has to say about this:
DeSantis super PAC that supposedly switched to Trump is a FAKE PAC that raised less than $300 this year – The Right Scoop
It supposedly had backers lined up.
Wonder if the guy switching will lean on his donors to back Trump with that cash?
…he coulda been a champ…..
Now he’s just a chump.
–meatball led with his chin!
Social media influencers hardest hit!
And they will never know why.
lol… did they finally figure out he was not even gonna carry his home state..?
Nimrata pushes the Putin’s a murder and wants to destroy the United States!
Just another war pig who is either incredibly stupid or thinks that Americans are incredibly stupid.
A great discussion and pretty funny too.
The Jimmy Dore Show today.
This Thomas who founded and ended the DeSantis pac is now going to raise funds for Trump instead … ain’t that a peach!
“What’s more, super PAC officials said the decisions to pull out of Nevada and California were driven by what they see as pro-Trump efforts to tilt the primary rules in his favor and make it less likely that a rival could knock him off.”
B.S.
“And in California, the state Republican Party late last month changed the delegate-allocation rules in a change that was backed by the Trump campaign and may make the state less competitive in March, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Previously, delegates were awarded by congressional district. Under the new rules, a candidate who wins more than 50% of the vote will take all 169 delegates — the most of any state in the nation. Should no candidate hit 50%, the delegates will be awarded proportionally but based on statewide vote, not via congressional district.
Perrine described this change as “making grassroots involvement impossible” and called it a “Trump-inspired rigging,” though she expressed some hope that the state party could alter the rule at its convention in September — during which both Trump and DeSantis are scheduled to speak.”
And more B.S.
They got busted rigging a proportional win for Runt DeSanctus and that’s “Trump inspired rigging.”
They beclown themselves at every turn.
Loomered!
IF Team Trump made efforts to affect the primary rules, it was in counterbalance to GOPe skullduggery.
We need to affect the entire damned election system.
No mariachi. No quesadilla. No tequila.
Another one bites the dust.