Posted on 05/28/2023 12:28:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
…. “There are Trillions at Stake!”
Overall, the New York Times is reporting a campaign support spending plan of more than $200 million. Essentially, these are payments from the billionaire Wall Street donors and multinationals, funneled through the SuperPAC, to influence the ’24 election. The context of the New York Times report sounds accurate.
NYT – A key political group supporting Ron DeSantis’s presidential run is preparing a $100 million voter-outreach push so big it plans to knock on the door of every possible DeSantis voter at least four times in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — and five times in the kickoff Iowa caucuses.
The effort is part of an on-the-ground organizing operation that intends to hire more than 2,600 field organizers by Labor Day, an extraordinary number of people for even the best-funded campaigns.
Top officials with the pro-DeSantis group, a super PAC called Never Back Down, provided their most detailed account yet of their battle plan to aid Mr. DeSantis, whom they believe they can sell as the only candidate to take on — and win — the cultural fights that are definitional for the Republican Party in 2024.
The group said it expected to have an overall budget of at least $200 million, including more than $80 million to be transferred from an old DeSantis state political account, for the daunting task of vaulting the Florida governor past former President Donald J. Trump, who has established himself as the dominant early front-runner.
[…] “No one has ever contemplated the scale of this organization or operation, let alone done it,” said Chris Jankowski, the group’s chief executive. “This has just never even been dreamed up.”
In Iowa, the group has opened a boot camp on the outskirts of Des Moines, giving the facility the code name “Fort Benning,” after the old Army training outpost, with 189 graduates of an eight-day training program the first wave of an organizing army to follow. Door knocking begins on Wednesday in New Hampshire.
The endeavor echoes the “Camp Cruz” that Senator Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign set up near Des Moines.
[…] At the helm of the DeSantis super PAC is Jeff Roe, a veteran Republican strategist who was Mr. Cruz’s campaign manager in 2016. In an interview, Mr. Roe described an ambitious political apparatus whose 2,600 field organizers by the fall would be roughly double the peak of Senator Bernie Sanders’s entire 2020 primary campaign staff. (read more)
When people ask about individuals, people, groups and media platforms that have joined the DeSantis effort…. Follow the money!
In deep Republican politics, ideology -the policy of politics- is a tool. The end goal is always money. Democrats want power, Republicans want money. Democrats use money to gain power; Republicans use power to get money. This is the core difference in their business model. This truism is also why there’s no pushback to the ideological policy of the Democrats. Republicans can simply be paid off.
When your ideology is first and foremost about money, all of the policy and advocacy is subject to the financial prism. Yes, it really is that simple.
The people paying for the Ron DeSantis campaign are investing in their future. They need to control the policy outcome, and that means they need to get rid of the only thing that will interrupt their influence and affluence, Donald J. Trump. Again, yes, it really is that simple.
The RNC doesn’t care about voter fraud, election integrity or other metrics inside the election system. The RNC ambivalence is directly because the two wings of the UniParty operate on this premise. The ideology of the Democrats drives their donor activity (see Zuckerberg), whereas the donors of the Republicans drive the ideology.
DeSantis cannot win the nomination on issues of economic policy. It is the economic policy that impacts the Billionaire Wall Street donors and multinationals. The donors are paying for an economic control outcome. That is why we are seeing such an emphasis on cultural issues from the Sea Island strategy, as displayed in the policy emphasis of Ron DeSantis.
$200 million for four states is nothing when contrast against the scale of money at risk for the Sea Island donors. It’s a Big Club, and we are only able to be in the fight because Donald J. Trump is in the battle.
The goal of the people who have traditionally controlled political outcomes is to remove Donald Trump. The goal is not to win the ’24 election. The goal is to remove the threat that Donald Trump represents.
There is only one force standing between Wall Street and the destruction of what remains of Main Street…. MAGA!
I dont think the MAGA crowd will go for any of this. I was for DeSantis till he decided he could do the job better.. and his backers are all the wrong people. He isnt wealthy? So he needs donors, and then obligated.
It wasnt his turn... my opinion.. and he doesn’t get my vote.
“ And if Desantis wins, he’ll be spending taxpayer money like a drunken democrat.”
Just like Trump did?
Thanks. Now I know!
That's the way uniparty politics works. Absolutely right, and disgusting.
They’ll keep spending as long as voters want them to keep spending.
spending hundreds of millions of dollars “donated” by gazllionaire oligarchs to try to buy an election when grassroots support is nearly non-existent is a time honored political tactic ... should said politician succeed in buying said election, then said politician is beholden to those who bought the election ...
News flash - Trump is wealthy, and he also needs donors and is then obligated. So that point seems to be a wash. At least Desantis has already proven he will oppose his donors to do the right thing.
Biden didn’t have to campaign. He simply stayed in his basement, because he knew the fix was in. He was guaranteed a win because he had ‘The Most Extensive and Inclusive Voter Fraud Organization’.
Not so. He is visiting wealthy donors.
So??? Candidates meet with wealthy donors. Trump does as well. If you don’t believe me, go look at Trump’s fundraising records for 2016 and 2020 and see.
A bit more:
“Democrats want power, Republicans want money. Democrats use money to gain power; Republicans use power to get money. This is the core difference in their business model. This truism is also why there’s no pushback to the ideological policy of the Democrats. Republicans can simply be paid off.”
I’ll vote for President Trump, but I’ve given up voting in congressional elections.
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Really? Can you provide receipts for that claim, or is that just a product of your fevered imagination?
In all of congress.. in all of Washington politics, there are few I trust.. there are very few who do not have a price.
In all of congress.. in all of Washington politics, there are few I trust.. there are very few who do not have a price.
It would never have been allowed for either side to put a dementiated body to do anything correctly
Hes short on abilities. I still am embarrassed that the United States puts a man in that shape, in that position. How did we get to that point!
If the 2016 Cruz team is now running anythig, I sure hope they learn how to run a ground game for dog catcher first, before taking on a presidential campaign again.
In 2015 Cruz left a very successful (for him) Atlanta event & went to suburb Newnan where many thousands of supporters were waiting to see how they could help Cruz. The Cruz staff had no clue about anything about that event.
A Couple months later,still in 2015, a friend organized 200 hard core supporters to hear daddy Cruz. Again the Cruz staff was there and was totallly clueless to how a ground game works.
This incompetence in the machinery of politics is not limited to the Cruz/DeSantis staff. But competence would be nice when running a Presidentail campaign.
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