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DeSantis and Haley just made their pitch to top GOP donors
Politico ^ | Updated: 10/13/2023 05:11 PM EDT | ALEX ISENSTADT

Posted on 10/13/2023 4:44:16 PM PDT by conservative98

Top officials with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign made the case to a gathering of top donors opposed to Donald Trump on Friday that rival GOP candidate Nikki Haley could not defeat the former president in a head-to-head matchup.

If they wanted to stop Trump, they argued, the Florida governor remained their best bet.

In another presentation made to the same group, Haley’s team argued the opposite. DeSantis’ campaign had flatlined, they insisted, pointing to data that showed that the former UN ambassador was ascendent and, therefore, the logical choice for the anti-Trump crowd.

Haley’s team, according to a person familiar with the arguments they made, pointed to public and private polling that showed her ahead of DeSantis in key early voting states. They also noted that Haley’s campaign has more cash on hand than DeSantis, who is leaning heavily on an allied super PAC to pick up much of the tab.

“By every metric,” the person said, “Nikki is moving up and Ron is moving down. It IS a two person race: one man and one woman.”

The dueling presentations were delivered to a major Republican donor network gathering that includes hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer and investor Ken Griffin, two of the biggest contributors in the party. It was delivered amid growing concern in some quarters of the party that a Trump nomination is quickly becoming inevitable.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: clubforgrowth; dallas; desantis; donors; gope; haley; harlancrow; kengriffin; liberalbillionaires; megadonors; nevertrumpers; nikkihaley; paulsinger; rinosummit; stoptrumpmovement; teamdesantis; trump
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1 posted on 10/13/2023 4:44:16 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Ron Desantis & Nikki Haley sent reps to Dallas today to beg Globalist donors to give them money in order to “stop Trump”

This comes the same week Emerson college released polling showing Trump winning the entire rust belt against Biden

They’re sabotaging our front runner pic.twitter.com/lckYYbkGj1— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 13, 2023


2 posted on 10/13/2023 4:44:31 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Anti-Trump Republicans hope the gathering, held on the Old Parkland Campus, a development owned by Crow, signals a NEW phase of the campaign, in which candidates begin to drop out and consolidate around a single Trump opponent.


Nevertrumper Reset #5.


3 posted on 10/13/2023 4:47:32 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Meatball and Nimrod begging for more spending money


4 posted on 10/13/2023 4:47:42 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: conservative98

I’d prefer General Jack D Ripper to these two.


5 posted on 10/13/2023 4:48:50 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98
Donor confab?


6 posted on 10/13/2023 4:51:07 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: conservative98

If either wins the nomination, it will make Reagan’s 1984 blowout look like a close race, unless that person gets Trump’s endorsement.


7 posted on 10/13/2023 4:51:59 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: conservative98

The political whores meet their johns.

The more I see a candidate suck up to big money donors the less I want to vote for them ever.


8 posted on 10/13/2023 4:52:25 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: dragnet2

Trump goes and speaks before the voters, these two clowns meet behind closed doors to plot how to screw over the voters.


9 posted on 10/13/2023 4:52:32 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Casey DeSantis? No thanks. I've already voted for too many Bushes.)
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To: conservative98

They will be resetting for the remainder of their lives.


10 posted on 10/13/2023 4:52:50 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: conservative98

They’re good at pitching cow patties.


11 posted on 10/13/2023 4:52:52 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: conservative98

People who hate Trump seem to have various fantasies that drive them. I can’t analyze their fantasies; but that’s what they are surfing to nowhere.

I don’t mean those who merely oppose the man, just those driven by hatred of him.


12 posted on 10/13/2023 4:53:17 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: conservative98

The Romney-Ryan ‘Trump Hate Fest’ sounded like a GOP Shark Tank affair based upon the excerpt posted.


13 posted on 10/13/2023 4:53:44 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: conservative98

I’d like to see DeSantis and Tulsi Gabbard as running mates. She’s an Independent, so I’m not sure that would be possible.

Haley was good as UN ambassador though.


14 posted on 10/13/2023 4:55:39 PM PDT by livius
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To: conservative98

Why is “stopping Trump” so important to DeSantis? I thought he was just “a better version of Trump” but aligned with his MAGA policies.


15 posted on 10/13/2023 4:56:47 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: conservative98

Meatball declared a state of emergency and then ran to Dallas for the real emergency

More money to stuff in his pockets


16 posted on 10/13/2023 4:57:21 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: conservative98
"Real estate developer Harlan Crow organized the conference in Dallas with an eye toward helping consolidate the field of Republican candidates. Many anti-Trump donors have been eager to"


"Crow is the cofounder of Club for Growth" - Wikipedia

17 posted on 10/13/2023 4:59:04 PM PDT by conservative98
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DeSantis and Haley just made their pitch to top GOP donors....

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Thereby demonstrating how well their knee pads worked as they bowed before mitt romney and paul ryan. I think Monica Lewinsky even autographed them.


18 posted on 10/13/2023 4:59:37 PM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: conservative98

AKA Club for Mexico


19 posted on 10/13/2023 4:59:44 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

George Soros, pick up the white courtesy phone!


20 posted on 10/13/2023 5:02:17 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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