Posted on 10/05/2023 7:25:55 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s fundraising woes continued last quarter with his campaign committee only raising $5 million for the Republican presidential primary contest. An additional $10 million the campaign committee says it raised can only be used for the 2024 general election according to U.S. campaign finance laws. DeSantis’s third quarter fundraising fell well below his second quarter haul of $20 million.
The cash-strapped campaign committee told staff at it’s Tallahassee, Florida headquarters on Wednesday roughly a third of them would be relocated to Iowa. Just over three months away, the Iowa caucuses are a make-or-break primary contest for DeSantis who currently has just $13.5 million cash-on-hand. The campaign believes either winning the Hawkeye state – or finishing with a strong second – will spark the momentum and donors they’ll need to defeat former President Donald Trump, the GOP front-runner.
In Iowa, pro-DeSantis SuperPAC Never Back Down has taken on many of the traditional roles associated with a presidential campaign committee. Campaign functions like bus tours, candidate events, and the entire political ad operation have for the most part been run through the SuperPAC. In addition, the Never Back Down has invested $25 million in a mass text messaging campaign powered by artificial intelligence as a cheaper, but unproven, alternative to television and radio ads. The DeSantis presidential campaign committee, on-the-other-hand, has yet to air even a single television ad.
A poll conducted by the DeSantis campaign’s pollster, Public Opinion Strategies, at the end of September showed Donald Trump leading Iowa with 50 percent – a 31 point advantage over DeSantis who was in a distant second at 19 percent.
Single digit midget.
He’s dead, Jim.
His mistake was competing with Trump for the nomination.
Despite all of Trump’s normally political negatives he wins the vote because a huge number of angry voters are voting against the Democrats by voting for Trump.
I dont like Trump’s jerk personality but will vote for him. I would LOVE to see the heads of the Libs in the Corrupt Liberal Media, politics, and the Deep State explode with frustration if he wins the election. LOL!!!
He’s known by the company that he keeps (Rove, Brothers Bush, Ryan, and other establishment deep-staters).
He had a tremendous amount of good will amongst the base and would have had a leg up in 2028 had he kept his powder dry. But he allowed the establishment to convince him to challenge Trump and use establishment tactics and arguments to do so.
That destroyed the good-will as he comes across as an opportunist and has cashiered his credibility on issues important to the base (but loathed by the establishment). He has destroyed his chances with the base as a person not to be trusted.
I know there are a lot of DeSantis supporters on her with arguments and facts that will attack my comments, but the polls seem to bearing me out.
A list of possible R contenders: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1160113954/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-who-is-running-tracker ... This is NPR, so there are likely others. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1160113954/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-who-is-running-tracker
Jeb! 2.0 is just as exciting as Jeb! 1.0.......
Screw the cheese-eating, surrender-monkey GOPe.
HOW MUCH WILL IT COST THE CAMPAIGN TO HOUSE & FEED PEOPLE who do NOT live in IOWA????
Not much to run a campaign on, but maybe he can use it to fund the Ron DeSantis Memorial Almost Presidential Library.
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DeSantis for Speaker. Endorse Trump, get out of the race and Trump should back him for the speakership. The GOPe is already behind him as President so they should not have a problem. He may be the right kind of jerk to be Speaker. MAGA would back him if Trump can skip this primary, save the money and start going after Biden immediately. They can work together on a strategy for 2024 nationally. This is the Real unity ticket.
The GOPe is already behind him as President so they should not have a problem.That IS the problem.
Despite all of Trump’s normally political negativesMore like Uncle Looney.
Trump accomplished more for America in one 4yr term than any President in your lifetime...period.
Yes yes, but what about his tone and personality??
I swear, some of these people sound exactly like leftist.
Why do they think they have to knock him before they say they support him?
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