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Trump, Haley and potential 2024 contenders like DeSantis court big donors as GOP's White House race heats up
Fox News ^ | February 24, 2023 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 02/24/2023 2:14:31 PM PST by conservative98

Former President Trump hosted some of his top financial backers at what was described as an intimate gathering at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday night.

The event is the first major fundraiser this cycle for MAGA Inc., the top super PAC supporting Trump as he makes his third straight presidential run.

Several other potential and declared presidential candidates are ramping up the 2024 fundraising race this week.

On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will kick off a weekend retreat with roughly 150 of his top donors at the Four Seasons resort in Palm Beach, just a few miles away from Mar-a-Lago. The popular conservative governor, who remains on the 2024 sidelines but is rumored to be considering a presidential campaign launch later this year, is expected to share data from his overwhelming re-election victory last November and his spotlight his agenda ahead.

Additionally, a handful of actual or likely Republican presidential candidates are gathering in Austin, Texas on Friday to headline a conference of top donors organized by Karl Rove, the longtime GOP strategist and top political adviser to then-President George W. Bush.

Former South Carolina governor and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who last week declared her candidacy for president, is among those speaking at the conference, which will help raise money for a registration initiative known as the Texas Voter Engagement Project.

Also addressing the donors are four other well-known Republicans seriously mulling White House runs — former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a 2016 GOP presidential contender.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, another rising star in the party, will also speak at the gathering, which is modeled on similar event Rove held in 2021.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2024; chrischristie; desantis; karlrove; kemp; nikkihaley; pence; sununu; trump

1 posted on 02/24/2023 2:14:31 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98




Welcome to the 2024 NeverTrump United Against Trump Project.
2 posted on 02/24/2023 2:14:50 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
Also, Mike Pence is involved.


3 posted on 02/24/2023 2:16:58 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

In before some idiot says DeSantis isn’t running...


4 posted on 02/24/2023 2:17:30 PM PST by bigbob
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To: conservative98

The more the merrier. I want Trump to stomp on these losers worse than he stomped on Yeb!

All a bunch of deep state scumbags.


5 posted on 02/24/2023 2:22:08 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: conservative98

The more the merrier. I want Trump to stomp on these losers worse than he stomped on Yeb!

All a bunch of deep state scumbags.


6 posted on 02/24/2023 2:22:08 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: bigbob

elon musk for president 2024...

our turn to install an ineligible african-american in the white hospice...


7 posted on 02/24/2023 2:22:21 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: conservative98
Trump, Haley and potential 2024 contenders like DeSantis

Is that Paul Ryan lumping Trump and Haley as non-contenders?

8 posted on 02/24/2023 2:25:35 PM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: conservative98

Any 2024 GOP Presidential candidate who supports the Ukraine War will NOT get my vote.


9 posted on 02/24/2023 2:29:57 PM PST by DMD13
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To: conservative98

Until voter integrity is restored, this is all a waste of time and doners are throwing away their money.

It’s idiocy.


10 posted on 02/24/2023 2:39:11 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: conservative98

It doesn’t seem like Trump is clearing the field.


11 posted on 02/24/2023 5:06:16 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Lisbon1940

Long time before votes are cast and debates start. Trump didnt start the mine sweeping until then in 2016.


12 posted on 02/24/2023 5:18:25 PM PST by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.Rinos)
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To: heavy metal

Musk is a China shill, he wrote an article for their censorship agency. He’s far more compromised by them than any other major American figure with tens of billions of dollars at stake in the country.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/elon-musk-writes-column-for-chinese-censorship-agencys-magazine/


13 posted on 02/24/2023 5:25:24 PM PST by GulliverSwift
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To: Lisbon1940

The more candidates there are, the better it is for Trump. He shouldn’t want a clear field.


14 posted on 02/24/2023 5:26:01 PM PST by GulliverSwift
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To: conservative98

What looser is Faux News going to back this time?
I’m thinking a Pence-Niki ticket.
The GOP can then loose every state except for maybe Florida.


15 posted on 02/24/2023 5:34:44 PM PST by Zathras
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To: reviled downesdad

Just saying that they don’t seem afraid of him if so many are getting in.


16 posted on 02/24/2023 7:15:05 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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