DeSantis Campaign Spent More on Private Jets Than TV Ads

The National Pulse ^ | 12/24/2023 | RAHEEM J. KASSAM

[SoConPubbie]

Ron DeSantis’s beleaguered presidential campaign will have spent “significantly more” on private jets for the Florida Governor than it has on airing television ads, according to federal records and revealed by the New York Times on Sunday.

The brutal dissection of the DeSantis campaign also reveals:

• DeSantis’s pollster Ryan Tyson described the final few months of “mak[ing] the patient comfortable,” in what the Times called “a phrase evoking hospice care”;
• “The DeSantis team had penciled in that Ken Griffin, the billionaire investor, would give his super PAC at least $25 million and likely $50 million, according to three people familiar with the matter. Mr. Griffin neither gave nor endorsed…”;
• Backer Steve Deace questioning if there is “enough runway to manifest… on caucus night”;
• DeSantis hired Jeff Roe in an attempt to dissuade Ted Cruz, Glenn Youngkin, and others from jumping into the primary;
• A GOP strategist described Ron as “Ted Cruz without the personality”.

The campaign is now said to have purged most of Roe’s influence, including most of his “Axiom Strategies” staff. Now run by close friends of DeSantis himself, the combination of the campaign, the Never Back Down PAC, and the new Fight Right PAC are still talking up their chances in Iowa, though still haven’t laid out a path forward from that moment, on January 15th 2024.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

A campaign can be a cost center. PACs often do the $ majority of ad buys. He lives and works in Tallahassee. He has to campaign in IA. You want him to take a train? I’m sure it is expensive, but the critical constraint is time, not $.

[Tell It Right]

If he does that much flying in private jets, DeSantis should become a Go Green advocate for the left like John Kerry, who served in Vietnam by the way. /sarc (that last part typed in my best Rush voice)

[gibsonguy]

Worst campaign in my lifetime. A daily train-wreck. It’s like they would start the day with the objective of “ok what else can we do to erode support from the base?”

[HonkyTonkMan]

He lives and works in Tallahassee. He has to campaign in IA.

He was hired to do a job in Florida. He needs to be where the work is, not 1,400 miles away. Iowa already has a governor.

[wildcard_redneck]

DeSantis was bought and paid for by the GOPe mega-donor class that hates the voters of the GOP so we returned the favor and rejected DeSantis.

[Carriage Hill]

I’ve never flown a private jet, but Trump’s plane looks a LOT more comfortable than that cattle car. (Just commenting for a friend).

[rdcbn1]

You can blow a lot of money on private jets.

[cgbg]

“Iowa already has a governor”...

who was sent to campaign in New Hampshire.

You can’t make up this stuff.

[packagingguy]

“Veteran GOP political strategist Jeff Timmer described Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “worst” presidential candidate he has ever seen.”

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/29/the-worst-candidate-ive-ever-seen/

[cotton1706]

He probably saved money in doing so.

Talking to the people instead of giving millions to the Democrat media and their artificially high prices.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

That two hundred million had to go somewhere

[Bernard]

What a waste of opportunity. All Ron DeSantis had to do was complete his term as Governor of Florida and announce for 2028. His support would have been as overwhelming as Donald Trump's is for 2024.

Then Ron decided (or somebody decided for him) that the best course of action was to run in 2024. Whoever made that decision needs to be retired now. And Ron needs to find something else to do after his term as governor ends. Maybe he should try to become CEO of Disney, and make that brand profitable and popular again. Now that would be a turnaround.

Whatever he does, he needs to prove that he can make his own decisions, and make correct decisions. Lots of reputation rebuilding in his future.

[wild74]

Good deal means he is beating the campaigned path while the Rumpster is flying to one court proceeding after another. Things are looking good for Governor and soon to be President DeSantis

[cgbg]

You have some really good drugs.

Please share.

Lol.

[Mastador1]

Question, how much campaign donations did/has Trump spent on his legal defense instead of his campaign, just asking for a friend.

[nwrep]

“Veteran GOP political strategist Jeff Timmer described Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “worst” presidential candidate he has ever seen.”

Worse than John Effup McCain?

[nwrep]

[SoConPubbie]

Question, how much campaign donations did/has Trump spent on his legal defense instead of his campaign, just asking for a friend.

Who cares?

How is it relevant to this conversation/