Trump Backer Explains Turning Away from DeSantis: ‘They Don’t Feel He Is Ready for It’

Breitbart ^ | 14 Nov 2023 | HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN

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Don Tapia, a Trump-backer who served as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica under former President Donald Trump, is making it crystal clear that his allegiance is behind the former president rather than Gov. Ron DeSantis, explaining why other major donors are turned off by the Florida governor well over five months into his presidential bid.

In February, Politico described Tapia as one of many “defectors” who was leaving Trump for DeSantis. At the time, the outlet reported that he “gave more than $50,000 to DeSantis’ reelection bid and hosted a pair of fundraisers for him” and asserted that donors were growing “tired of Trump’s attacks on DeSantis.”

“The name-calling has turned a lot of people off,” he said at the time. “Let me tell you, we don’t like that.”

While Politico reported that Tapia “said that he had decided to back DeSantis should he run in 2024,” Tapia made it clear to the Messenger that he never formally endorsed DeSantis and is now fully behind Trump, as he was in the past, contributing six-figures in Trump’s past campaigns.

Further, he told the outlet that more “big number guys” are coming out to support Trump as the primary goes on and the former president maintains his status as the runaway frontrunner.

“When it comes DeSantis, they don’t feel DeSantis is ready for it, that he’s up to the challenge of what is taking place. And keep in mind, the world situation has changed,” he told the outlet, noting that Trump’s indictments “brought more people home” as well.

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[Chgogal]

Your posts are BS.

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What is it with men and baseball cards? Do they clip these
on their bikes to make like the sound of a motor? HARDLY! As WTP realize using fossil fuel is definitely a ‘no no’ of the present administration.