Posted on 08/05/2023 10:01:52 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Bigelow is DeSantis’s biggest donor by a longshot. The Bigelow Aerospace founder donated $20 million to the pro-DeSantis Never Back Down PAC in March. The next closest donor is venture capitalist Douglas Leone, who donated $2 million, a tenth of Bigelow’s contribution.
“He does need to shift to get to moderates. He’ll lose if he doesn’t … Extremism isn’t going to get you elected,” Bigelow told Reuters on Friday. Bigelow specifically cited Florida’s six-week abortion restriction as a policy he feels is too extreme.
Bigelow told Reuters he is pausing any donations to DeSantis at the moment, lamenting that his contribution is “too big a percentage.”
“Not until I see that he’s able to generate more on his own. I’m already too big a percentage,” Bigelow told Reuters. Bigelow also said, “a lot of his donors are still on the fence.”
Bigelow did not provide an exact fundraising number he was looking for but said, “it’s going to be a lot.”
Bigelow’s concern with DeSantis’s campaign comes as he hits a new low in polling. This week’s Morning Consult survey found that DeSantis has just 15 percent support among Republican primary voters. On the other hand, former President Donald Trump has a 43-point advantage over DeSantis, coming in at 58 percent support.
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As Breitbart News detailed:
Republican megadonor Ken Griffin is also reconsidering his support for DeSantis after previously claiming, “our country would be well-served by him as president,” months before DeSantis launched his campaign.
Griffin is one of several donors who supported DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaigns but are shying away from contributing to his presidential campaign. Former Marvel chairman Ike Perlmutter — who donated, with his wife, over $2 million to DeSantis’s gubernatorial reelection campaign — is planning to support Trump’s third White House bid with a “meaningful” contribution, CNBC reported.
Billionaire Ronald Lauder, who donated more than $200,000 to DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaigns, is now considering throwing his financial support to Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Politico reported.
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If he hadn’t tried so hard to take down Trump when Trump is facing decades in jail simply because he won the White House, he’d have a lot of MAGA support now, especially with the Big Money types bolting from his campaign.
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I originally supported DeSantis, but he is done and needs to drop out. Back in the Trump column, but I reserve the right to use the terms Conservative Nuthouse and SunDunce to describe one of Trumps fan boys.
Ken Griffin's track record on picking winners is exactly ZERO. His favored Republican Candidate for Governor here in HELLINOIS, whom Griffin put MILLIONS behind ran the worst campaign ever. Lost in the primaries BADLY.
Griffin was so embarassed, he packed up, moved out of HELLINOIS and went to Florida.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Same billionaire dumbass can't pick a winner there either.
Big donors want open borders, war in Ukraine, and close to unlimited abortion. Most GOP voters don’t. In 2016, 15 of 16 candidates were chasing the big donors. Trump wasn’t.
The big donors don’t really care if the GOP wins. They just want to eliminate any real choice.
DeSantis…Phtttt!
He will NEVER be President.
Bigelow was also a Big Donor to Harry Reid.
He Gave $20 Million to Ronnie’s PAC
What does Bigelow want from Ronnie in return?
Ronnie can slink back to FLA and pass Moderate policies
to please his Masters.
Big donors want no war in Ukraine and business as almost usual with Russia. Big donors want a new Iran deal brokered by Putin. Way more corrupt money to be made in Russia and Iran than in backwater Ukraine.
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This isn't a beauty contest. If it was, of course Trump is better at that. Trump has experience with beauty contests by the way, he was in charge of Miss Universe.
Ping to former owner of Skinwalker Ranch’s interrupted support of DeSantis thread. If you have a list...
Rob: “oh, sure! Yes, we’ll moderate whatever you want.
Casey gave me her OK on this.”
Not really, but if there’s interest I guess I could start one.
And that’s how Bigalow got a huge chunk of OUR MONEY via hairball reid and. gov contracts for UFO /Skinwalker Ranch purchase and subsequent 10 year investigation of UFO stuff happening on the SWR.
Of which there’s been no information disseminated to anyone who is not in the “loop”.
DeSantis just yesterday said he’s going to go after the countries that engages in antisemitism.
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