Posted on 10/17/2023 8:51:23 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has burned up $11.1 million of the $11.2 million he raised across July, August, and September, with no progress in the polls to show for it and donors increasingly reluctant to throw good money after bad.
New filings show a campaign running out of firepower, with almost $6 million spent in July, with a precipitous drop to $3.8 million in August, followed by a crash to $1.3 million in September.
They also show DeSantis’s campaign operation, which once boasted by far the biggest staff in the GOP race, is still being slashed, with 90 people on the payroll in summer, compared to 63 by the end of September.
The Florida Governor’s penchant for private jet use appears to have been eating up even more more than payroll costs, however, with payments to N2024D LLC, IsraJets, Empyreal Jet, Silver Air Private Jets, Advanced Aviation Team, and Avion Aviation making over $1.5 million from him.
While the campaign boasted of having raised $15 million last quarter, this pales in comparison to Trump’s $45M haul, and electoral rules mean only $5M of the DeSantis cash can legally be used in the primary, with the rest held in reserve for a potential general election battle.
IIRC the GOP money folks spent about $200 million in their failed attempt to get Jeb Bush nominated in 2016.
Do you have the numbers on how much money DeSantis has spent thus far?
Maybe the problem began when he thought bashing Trump was the way to go
The consultants always get paid first. They never get left without a chair when the music stops.
Nope, it began when he got in bed with the Bush/Ryan GOPe whose idea it was to bash Trump.
He spends his money on campaigning, Rump spends his money on stay out of jail lawyers
All that money wasted in a primary instead of being used against the Democrats.
Lots of TDS on this thread.
This article is shear nonsense. Trump moved money over from 2021 stop the steal fund drive to give the illusion that he raised jack squat. Trump made only 100k is small donations. RDS made almost 9 million lol.
Maybe some of you Trump followers should get a second job to help Trump out more lol.
If the DeSantos is spending all of his money on his campaign and not pocketing it, he sure is doing a piss poor job. Certainly not someone I want as president.
I actually wonder if a few of them are not being paid by the Trump campaign.
I was just doing the math on this. According to those statements, Trump brought in ~$25M total in the quarter, with ~$100K being individual donors. DeSantis brought in ~$11M total in the quarter, with ~$9M coming from individual donors.
So for the quarter, Trump's donor base is 0.004% made up of individual donors to his campaign. This is $100K/$25M.
Meanwhile DeSantis donor base is 82% made up of individual donors to his campaign. This is $9M/$11M.
This clearly and completely obliterates the myth that Trump's campaign is based on small individual donors. It's actually DeSantis who is almost completely based on small individual donors.
Well we know about 85-90% of it came from the big establishment donors…
They have no moved on.. Haley will be the person getting the cash from them next.
Hey, you got out of FR jail.
What’s amazing is they actually allowed you back. That is most inquisitive.
Jeb 2.0! ... the only real question is whether ron’s per-delegate-won costs will be greater or less than Jeb 1.0! ...
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