The $6,600/plate appearance is the latest effort by Team DeSantis to connect to the ordinary working class voter he needs to try and regain footing after his effort has fallen short of the Sea Island billionaires’ expectations.Posted on 06/29/2023 8:28:49 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ron DeSantis is heading to the Big Apple to reunite with his Yale alumni and accept a boost in capital for his ailing campaign.
The $6,600/plate appearance is the latest effort by Team DeSantis to connect to the ordinary working class voter he needs to try and regain footing after his effort has fallen short of the Sea Island billionaires’ expectations.
The Yale Club appearance tomorrow is more friendly terrain for the Florida governor, a return to those who are at the root of his political career.
(Via NBC) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is coming to New York for a private presidential campaign fundraiser that’s set to be hosted by at least four Wall Street executives, including one with past ties to a firm backed by liberal billionaire George Soros, a frequent target of DeSantis and other Republicans.
The event is scheduled to take place June 29 at the swanky Yale Club, according to a copy of an invitation seen by CNBC. It will be one of DeSantis’ first fundraisers in the Big Apple since he officially launched his campaign for president last month.
The hosts listed on the DeSantis invitation include Paul Ardire, a partner at GoldenTree Asset Management, along with Christian Michalik, Rob Michalik and Corwynne Carruthers, who are all leaders at Kinderhook Industries, a private equity firm with at least $5 billion in assets under management, according to data from PitchBook. GoldenTree has at least $50 billion in assets under management, PitchBook says. (read more)
Despite the combined efforts of Rupert Murdoch, Ken Griffin, Elon Musk, the Sea Island billionaires, hedge fund managers, Wall Street groups and a host of multinational corporations, recent polling shows the richest fundraiser in the GOP field has failed to gain traction with the lesser controllable voters.
Additionally, the purchased right-side media, Daily Wire, Salem Inc. and a strong coalition of “conservative influencers” are producing diminishing returns. The former Team Cruz crowd is pushing hard, but it becomes a complicated dynamic of influence when they must pretend they are not aligned with Jeb and the Bush clan.
Alas, a brief reprieve from the pretending with a Yale Club booster confab is sure to recharge the spirit of DeSantis, as he enters a full-throated albeit transparently desperate, phase of his six-minute-abs campaign.
DeSantis is now promising to use tariffs against Mexico, break up the federal government and attack the FBI and DOJ in a last-ditch effort to convince the suspicious crowd that his association with the spooks from Skull and Bones is only an optical illusion. The tiaras of Casey are contingent upon selling a carefully branded narrative, that thus far has not captured enough of the sheeple masses for success.
Meeting with the Yale Club is sure to boost morale.
[…] DeSantis and the event’s co-hosts have ties to the fundraiser’s venue due to them all being Yale graduates. Yale Club members can only be those who received a degree from the Ivy League school or “full-time graduate students who are completing a degree-granting program at Yale, and full-time professors,” according to their website.
DeSantis graduated from Yale in 2001. DeSantis said in a book released just before he ran for president that he viewed earning a degree from Yale was the equivalent of being a political “scarlet letter” in a Republican primary. (more)
Oh come on! He needs money. You mean Reagan never did it?
Surely there should be a decimal point in there somewhere.
But is the fundraiser at the Crown Plaza in Suffern or is it at the Yale Club, which is probably in Manhattan?
Oh come on! He needs money. You mean Reagan never did it?
Ron should pay rent for living in southern republican’s mind 24/7.
His lord and savior, Trump, is a billionaire, but DeSantis can’t participate in a high-end fundraiser? haha
Pathetic.
Big whoop. I’m supporting the Freepathon!!
And you can too! From the comfort of your home.
😜
Trump never held big money dinners, right?
And Florida needs their governor back in the state doing what he was elected to do.
“Ron should pay rent for living in southern republican’s mind 24/7.”
Ron lives rent free in the minds of some here.
Wasn’t this the same group where Jeb said “Please clap.”?
At some point, he’s going to have to stop winning over the elites, and try to win over the voters. —Jmo, but he’s not going to accomplish it.
To Cement Grassroots Bona Fides DeSantis Attends Yale Club Fundraiser & hobnobs with the wealthy and famous; peons keep at a distance.
“His lord and savior, Trump, is a billionaire, but DeSantis can’t participate in a high-end fundraiser?”
Come on, you know how this works. Participating in a “high-end fundraiser” means the “high-end” people will expect favors from you in return, if you win. And those “high-end” people do not have the same favors in mind that the majority of the party would like to see enacted.
Better that than the sneaky way he got grassroots money in 2020. He had to refund $122 million dollars to donors because of small print doubling the money on the donation site. In addition, the one-time/monthly/even weekly(!!!) donation section wasn’t clear.
He used the Stop-the-Steal donations to pay people back, just as he’s now using campaign donations to pay his legal bills.
I don’t think Eureka College is on the same level, maybe not even in the same hemisphere, as Yale.
He’s doing both by also going to small events like family picnics (IA), annual business meetings (NY) and townhalls (SC), to mention a few.
Any info on what he isn’t getting done for Florida from wherever he is?
Yale 🤮
Like Bush
Event billed as fundraiser for average Americans.
What average American can afford a $6,600 Per Plate Fundraiser?
He’s working remotely.
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