Posted on 11/21/2023 8:48:20 PM PST by backpacker_c
Bob Vander Plaats, an influential evangelical leader in Iowa, endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, giving his campaign a boost as he goes all in to try to win the first state in the presidential primary cycle.
"You need a president who's gonna surround themselves with the best and brightest people versus having a hard time attracting them again. And someone who's actually going to do what they say they're going to do. And I just think he's got the spine to do it. And I think he's got the experience to win for us," Vander Plaats said on Fox.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
On a Monday call with fundraisers, DeSantis told donors he is expecting an endorsement from Vander Plaats' within a week of the roundtable, according to multiple attendees who were on the call. The DeSantis campaign denies the governor said this.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-evangelical-voters-iowa-trump-desantis-haley/
The desantis campaign would have been on the donor call, and known the endorsement was coming, since they had been trying to buy the support...
And they still lied back to cbsnews
From other threads where people from Iowa commented on vander plaats and his organization,
vander plaats is said to be a bit of a grifter and he and his organization the family leader doesn’t have the influence the media is trying to make it appear he has.
Who he Hell is Bob Vanderpants? I never heard of him...
No one here in Iowa cares who Bob endorses .
He does stand up for good values and ideas, but no one cares about his national political choices.
Only the out of state media cares
Finally!!! They’ve got Trump this time, for sure! He’s done.
Over 150 Faith Leaders in Iowa Endorse President Trump, Signaling Strong Support in the Faith Community pic.twitter.com/OChnLsIA0x— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) November 21, 2023
Who?
And he got paid $95k from the desantis campaign to get his support...
The DeSantis campaign, a super PAC linked to him and a nonprofit group supporting him together paid $95,000 in recent months to the Family Leader Foundation, an Iowa-based nonprofit led by evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, according to campaign finance reports and a document prepared by an Iowa state lawmaker who was helping the Vander Plaats organization raise money for a July 14 presidential candidate forum.
Let’s see just how influential he really is. I’m expecting a good laugh when the net Iowa poll comes out.
Big Whoop.
Next Iowa polls will show it made no difference.
Brought to you by the Iowa Ethanol Cartel and Bob Underpants.
Thanks for weighing in from out there in Ioway, Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry.
Tell me again what the polls are saying about Trump (60+%?) vs DeSanctimonious (<10% and falling?)
Yeah, pull out that wide angle lens and show us the awesome BREADTH AND DEPTH of Ronnie’s support! Har har.
Yeah, he endorsed Ted Cruz, too.
“someone who’s actually going to do what they say they’re going to do”
Where and the hell was this guy during Trumps Presidency? He must of had his head up, well you know where. Trump delivered on everything and had to fight ever inch of the way.
It is Trump or we are finished. A vote for DeSantis and all his Bushie money is a vote for them. and we can see where they have taken us.
Is he the guy who is on Steve Deace’ show every Monday? (TheBlaze radio)
Hugh Hewitt told Brett Baer(iirc) “Vanderplaats makes the rain in Iowa”
? We’ll see won’t we.
Trump support is a mile wide but 2 miles deep....and not budging.
Even Floridians who supported Gov. DeSantis aren’t moving away from Trump.
Desantis and his PACs are feuding.
He shoulda’ waited for ‘28,
joining team Trump in ‘26,
or ‘24 as VP.
I don’t see that Ron has the organization, support, or resolve to dissemble DC as it needs to be dissembled.
Looks like Ronnie’s $100k bought him an endorsement - funny how he has to go out of state to find folks to pay off to say nice things about him....
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