Overall, DeSantis’ operation raised $15 million over the last three months through a joint fundraising committee, his leadership PAC and his campaign, Romeo said.
But some of the money can be spent only in the general election, because it was raised from big donors who already gave the maximum primary donation. And despite rounds of layoffs that were part of a much-publicized reset, DeSantis burned through more primary cash than he raised over the last three months.
At the end of the second quarter, DeSantis had $6.6 million in primary funds available, according to an NBC News analysis of his last campaign finance filing — roughly $1.6 million more than his campaign says it has now.
DeSantis would go a long way in winning over this Trump voter if he used his Iowa campaign money to tell the Iowans that he will do his ever-lovin’ best to end ethanol mandates. That’d obviously hurt him in Iowa, but win over many of the rest of us who have been grumbling about the ethanol mandates for years.
I saw the reports yesterday — $50 million, not 15.