DeSantis picks finance director for prospective presidential campaign

Reuters ^ | April 7, 2023 | Gram Slattery and Alexandra Ulmer

[backpacker_c]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has chosen a finance director for his prospective presidential campaign, two sources close to DeSantis said on Thursday.

Lauren Lofstrom, who served as finance director for Texas Senator Ted Cruz during his 2016 presidential campaign, is joining DeSantis' political operation and has begun meeting with the governor's allies to discuss fundraising strategies, said the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Others who have joined DeSantis' political operation include Jason Johnson, who served as Cruz's chief strategist in 2016, the sources said.

[Runner4life]

That’s a hell of a lot of gibberish. You could have just said yes, I’m a clown.

[Nifster]

They were on Cruz’s failed effort at getting the presidential nomination

[entropy12]

Trump was a businessman during Obama regime.
You obviously have no clue how business donations work.
Did you ever run a Billion dollar business? I will bet you have not.

[dfwgator]

Trump was a businessman during Obama regime. You obviously have no clue how business donations work. Did you ever run a Billion dollar business? I will bet you have not.

"Oh, you left out a bunch of stuff....."

[entropy12]

Rodney is my all time favorite comedian.

[jmacusa]

Screw the Republican party. Trump should run as an independent or do a Teddy Roosevelt and create his own party.

The MAGA Party and f the RNC.

[Nifster]

Someone better be angry about what’s being done to our country

[Laslo Fripp]

Trump endorsed Stacey Abrams????

I never knew.

[devere]

Trump and his misguided supporters are angry with their fellow Republicans, some of whom are better men than they are. It is an artificial anger, driven only by their lust for power, not by their love of country.

[jeffc]

Totally agree with post #8. RDS still has work that must be done here in Florida. Besides, if (IF!) RDS gets the nomination, the only-Trump people will stay home, not vote, and let another Dem into the Oval Office. Trump 2024. DeSantis 2028.

[Timber Rattler]

Why did you disappear for five years?

As I have told you repeatedly, being a Ted Cruz supporter, I accepted the deal offered here by the site owner "for the duration."

Our overriding conservative mission on Free Republic is to defend God, family, country!

As it is, the Clintons were defeated and Hillary will never be president, so that issue is now moot, since that deal was never to support Trump in perpetuity, just in 2016.

So I support DeSantis now, if and when he chooses to enter the race. If not, then I will support another declared Republican candidate. But not Trump. He will never win another election.

[JonPreston]

If not, then I will support another declared Republican candidate. But not Trump.

Please, I urge you to keep your support for Meatball Ron upfront and in the open. Political history has taught us that when Neocons, warmongers and NeverTrumps like yourself coalesce around a candidate, he/she collapses into a laughingstock.

[Timber Rattler]

Please, I urge you to keep your support for Meatball Ron upfront and in the open. Political history has taught us that when Neocons, warmongers and NeverTrumps like yourself coalesce around a candidate, he/she collapses into a laughingstock.

Be careful what you wish for, Comrade...

[JonPreston]

Be careful what you wish for, Comrade

It's not a wish, rather it's an understanding of our political history. Meatball Ron is indeed the new Cruz, and you, a Neocon, warmongering, NeverTrump is his audience. Trump will win and in his victory he will further expose the rotten core of the Republican side of the system. This spells victory for someone like me.

[central_va]

Trump endorsed Stacey Abrams,

That was a sarcastic remark aimed at Kemp because he is a POS like you are.

[thefactor]

"Trump will win and in his victory he will further expose the rotten core of the Republican side of the system."

Ah yes. THIS time, Trump will drain the swamp. We just need to give him another chance! It wasn't his fault! He will do it THIS time! We just need to give him more power, THEN he will do it!

You people are so strange.

[central_va]

You think DePimple is going to drain anything but the boil on his butt?

[JonPreston]

Only WE can drain the Swamp, and that’s not possible as long as people like you represent CONservatives and RepubliCANTS.

[central_va]

[thefactor]

"Only WE can drain the Swamp"

And let me guess. The only way WE can drain the swamp is to elect Trump again. Then he will get rid of all the Fauci-types in DC. Right? He will do it THIS time, he promises.