Republican Governor’s Association Builds Anti-Trump War Chest With Ron DeSantis

National File ^ | December 11, 2022 | FRANKIE STOCKES

[SoConPubbie]

The RGA filled DeSantis' coffers while hanging conservative candidates in competitive states out to dry.

The anti-Trump Republican Governor’s Association spent the 2022 election cycle helping Florida’s Ron DeSantis build a massive war chest for use in future campaigns, while hanging conservatives like Doug Mastriano, in Pennsylvania, out to dry and surrendering governorships to Democrats.

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) donated almost $21 million to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC, a massive war chest that politicos believe the Florida Governor will use to take on Trump in 2024, with the backing of the GOP establishment.

Over the year and a half that the RGA was dumping millions into the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC, they gave zero dollars to Doug Mastriano, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, effectively surrendering the pivotal state to Democrats.

Despite the massive donations from the RGA, DeSantis didn’t need the money from a campaign standpoint, considering his seat is rated as one of the safest in the nation.

What’s more, is that the RGA’s counterpart, the Democratic Governors Association, spent a mere $52,000 in Florida in 2022, seeming to admit from the start that they didn’t stand a chance at winning.

That’s left conservatives wondering what the RGA was even fundraising for.

Thus far, the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC has raised over $160 million, and the RGA is its biggest donor, contributing a sum of $20,950,000 from April of 2021 through November of 2022.

Seemingly, the GOP’s donor class is filling DeSantis’ campaign coffers for 2024.

Check out the transactions below:

The Republican Governor’s Association is helping Ron DeSantis build a massive war chest worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

That though, shouldn’t come as any surprise to supporters of President Trump, many of whom have grown cautious of Ron DeSantis and those surrounding him.

The GOP establishment and their donor class have been openly floating the idea of supplanting Trump with DeSantis, or even Glenn Youngkin, in 2024, with the likes of Paul Ryan popping up to show his support.

Read More: Paul Ryan, GOP Establishment Plot to Supplant Trump With Youngkin, DeSantis in 2024

Within the RGA itself, much like at Kevin McCarthy’s FTX-backed Congressional Leadership Fund, Never Trump Republicanism is alive and well.

Just last month, Axios reported that former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie “received huge applause” at an annual RGA meeting, for bashing President Trump.

Despite establishment plans to torpedo the 45th President in 2024, Trump blows out DeSantis and Youngkin alike in numerous polls, and has reminded both men that it was his endorsement that gave them their political fortunes in the first place.

[thefactor]

Good

[Roccus]

The question becomes, can America withstand the onslaught of the Republican party.

[Hambone 1934]

GOP-E has this fantasy that all the trump supporters will drift over to them .....

[Cobra64]

I thought DeSantis said he wants to be governor. I guess the Republican Governor’s Association has other plans for DeSantis.

[KC Burke]

You know in the old days on FreeRepublic posters would comment on the sketches news site sources for these articles and also on the motivations of main line big media. We would try to ferret out what the various interests were of the writers and thereby be more than just a collection of repostings of some of this crap which is actually giving it more credence than it deserves.

But hey, I’m just old fashioned.

[SoConPubbie]

We would try to ferret out what the various interests were of the writers and thereby be more than just a collection of repostings of some of this crap which is actually giving it more credence than it deserves.

Well, feel free to try and discredit the facts, and the authors, of this piece.

It's a free country!

[untenured]

My FRiend, I remember the old FR days well, when Big Media’s leftism was (correctly) seen as a major threat to our republic, to the last best hope of man on earth.

FR has really deteriorated into a site dominated more every day not by conservatism, not by the preservation of what made America a light unto the nations, but by the cult of personality.

Yes, that one.

[BlackbirdSST]

Good

If you want one party communist rule, this is the path you take.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I have not heard D say anything about running for Prez.
It’s all the democRAT/egop crap as usual.

[thefactor]

Hahaha. So anyone other than Trump raises money and it’s a path to Communism. You Trumpists get weirder every day.

[bigbob]

By “the old days” I’m guessing you mean before everyone and his brother had a blog. Or “news website” if you prefer, but there are literally thousands of sites like National File, started by someone who thinks his opinion and ability to repost news gathered by others is of high interest to the world, never bothering to explain why this is.

Go to National File and try to find a “Who We Are” or anything similar. Those who do have such are always glowing accolades about their founders and writers without really providing a CV or bio that could be checked. The most common credential is having been a blogger for some other blog site.

Someone finds this stuff and posts it here, and there you have what we have today. It’s kind of endemic of the state of the country, isn’t it?

Oh, and while it’s nearly impossible to find anything who is behing them or their credibility or credentials, it’s never a problem to find the button for “SUBSCRIBE” or “DONATE”.

[BlackbirdSST]

You know in the old days on FreeRepublic posters would comment on the sketches news site sources for these articles and also on the motivations of main line big media. We would try to ferret out what the various interests were of the writers and thereby be more than just a collection of repostings of some of this crap which is actually giving it more credence than it deserves. But hey, I’m just old fashioned.

Huh. Why didn't you pick the ball up and run with it? Someone has to be first, right?

[Bayard]

They will fundraise on DeSantis, then spend the money on an anti-Trump campaign when DeSantis doesn’t run.

This is just to make money off of DeSantis.

[Bayard]

DeSantis hasn’t announced he is running, is this just a bid to make money off using his name?

[BlackbirdSST]

So anyone other than Trump raises money and it’s a path to Communism. You Trumpists get weirder every day.

Push any of the GOPe faves and they will crash and burn in the primary. Should one survive and push out Trump, that GOPe clown will be the death nail for the party. You may as well buy your funeral flowers now to avoid the rush. If there is to be any successful run at the left it has to be MAGA. If MAGA dies, you get your one party communist rule. Be prepared to embrace the suck you yourself are pushing off on the rest of US.

TDS sucks wind.

[thefactor]

Trump will not win 2024. No independents will vote for him. It’s over. It just sucks that it’s going to take him losing another election to prove it to people like you.

[NorthMountain]

is this just a bid to make money off using his name

Probably ... I get endless fundraising emails and text messages taking Trump's name in vain for generic GOP fundraising.

[thefactor]

Trump raised well over $100M prior to his announcing. It’s done every cycle via PACs. Desantis has a PAC due to his runs for Governor. It wasn’t wrong when Trump did it, and it’s not wrong when Ron does it.

[knarf]

Wait'll he just gives it to Trump