Posted on 09/04/2023 3:09:12 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Your facts are not complete. The 50 million was pledged but the donors cooled and reneged. Only a very small sum was actually collected.I linked the article earlier in the thread. I do not blame the super pac. They do not appear to have done anything wrong.
Yes. It is okay. Some people like losers better than winners.
No one should have any illusions that the people behind this PAC are suddenly big MAGA supporters, but they are smart enough
to read the handwriting on the wall and to try to cut their losses.
They see Trump’s nomination (and perhaps general election win) as inevitable and don’t want to lose a seat at the table if/when that happens.
As they should. With what the left is doing, every candidate, PAC, and GOP funding group, should stop their campaign or other money contributions, and declare their support for Trump. Or do they think the left will not eventually come for their preferred candidate as well? If so, how foolish! Pence especially should be ashamed of himself. I wonder how much money is being paid for him to turn to the dark side?
A super PAC set up to back Ron DeSantis with $50 million is closing as donors backed out - while its founder said the Florida governor’s campaign was guilty of ‘rookie s**t’ mistakes and he will now back Donald Trump.
Before the Twitter Spaces launch, the strategist, who has worked on races in 49 states, had a swath of donors who wanted to put up ‘seven- and eight-figure support’ for DeSantis.
The PAC only ended up spending around $20,000 on grassroots efforts to drum up support for the governor.
This was the same Super PAC that DeSantis warned people against donating to back in November, saying he had no affiliation with it whatsoever
Does everyone know about Ed Rollins (spit) leaving Ron for Trump...with his pack.
I was never crazy about ED.
You really got suckered for that one.
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00828400/
Read both links and get back with me.
The only meatball is headed for jail Trumit name calling puppet
Making the second round with this post are you, getting those post numbers up
That is irrelevant. A candidate is not allowed to coordinate to a super pac, nor is the super pac allowed to donate to the candidate. I did post the relevant statute earlier. The other super pac has acted in a questionable manner coordinating with the candidate. DeSantis’ motives in directing traffic to the other super pac may reflect that fact.
If RDS is a loser, everyone is a loser. This is flat out stupid.
RDS is a good governor of my state. Problem is he lacks charisma to win a national election.
I love Trump now, Bud. I have no apology for distrusting a man who contributed to the Clintons, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. Yes, I still voted for him, and he far surpassed my expectations.
Same here, polls be damned. At the end of the day, I didn't have to abandon every conservative principle I've ever held to support him.
RDS is a good governor of my state. Problem is he lacks charisma to win a national election.
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The problem with Trump is that his negatives are too high. Too many will not vote for him.
I was going to post a meaty rebuttal but there are so many filings for campaign finance violations back & forth by DeSantis campaign, Trump campaign and independent watch dogs that it seems the rules are honored more in the breech.
The group that is switching to Trump appears to have behaved properly.
The DeSantis campaign has many complaints about it’s relationship with pacs and I found at least one against the Trump campaign.
This is the most concrete one I found. The issues are complex and violations are apparently ubiquitous.
An election watchdog organization has filed a second complaint relating to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political campaign, alleging a Canadian hedge fund made more than $167,000 in illegal contributions to his operation. The non-partisan, Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center is asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate Toronto-based ECN Capital Corporation for violating federal campaign finance laws that prohibit contributions from foreign nationals and foreign corporations. The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits the contributions to U.S. elections and also bans foreign nationals from participating in any decision-making process with regard to making a political contribution.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article276790476.html#storylink=cpy
As expected, childish.
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