Posted on 09/04/2023 3:09:12 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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A super PAC that was once positioned to help Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., capture the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has closed shop and announced that it will shift its support to President Donald Trump, the Daily Mail revealed.
In early 2023, legal counsel for DeSantis noted that the PAC, “Ron to the Rescue” was “similar to other ‘pro-DeSantis’ PACs that have formed and continue to use Ron DeSantis’ name and likeness to raise funds without his permission or authorization.”
However, the Daily Mail reported that the PAC had accumulated $50 million that could have been donated to DeSantis’s current 2024 presidential campaign bid.
Reportedly, the PAC was initially founded by John Thomas, who is a well-known GOP strategist in political circles.
In comments made to the Daily Mail, Thomas explained that he saw DeSantis’s presidential campaign launch in May on Twitter Spaces as a “blunder” and noted that that he believed the Florida governor’s decision to debate California Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., was one of many “rookie s**t” errors.
Thomas will now be utilizing the power of his PAC to back President Donald Trump, who is far and away the Republican frontrunner going into next year’s election. Additionally, the president’s multiple indictments this year have fueled massive fundraising hauls for his campaign.
As reported by RSBN, Trump pulled in more than $20 million in the month of August alone, with a massive $9.4 million of that fundraising coming in the one-week wake of his arrest at the Fulton County jail in Georgia on a 41-count indictment.
His campaign noted that the president has sold tens of thousands of t-shirts and mugs featuring “mugshot merchandise.”
The president’s stalwart dedication to running for reelection despite the legal battles being waged against him has simply served to solidify his popularity among Republican voters nationwide.
Thomas explained to the Daily Mail that he believed Trump possessed a superior level of “campaign savvy and discipline” in his 2024 presidential reelection campaign.
OOPS!
Ha!
Don’t trust this one bit. DeSantis is backed by NeverTrumpers, who are not going to want their donations used to help Trump.
The donations involved are from big ticket donors who thought DeSantis a good candidate but soured after the campaign commenced.
Well, this was not quite the preferred outcome.
But, it’s still early!
Never fear!
Plenty of time to iron out all the wrinkles.
Truth. They will Sue to stop it, in 3-2-1..
The cause of the DeSantis downfall was the day he took the advice of all the elite scum and threw his hat into the ring.
He can kiss any chance of a 2028 run goodbye now.
That does not matter to the elite who dangled the carrot in front of his face. They will find another sucker to work on and leave DeSantis in the cesspool they made and put him into.
Hahaha. Meatball has melted.
I don’t trust it either but for a different reason. Thomas was a Trump guy for 2016 and 2020, but he switched to DeSantis, then back to Trump after collecting $50 million? He’s like the Charlie Crist of PAC runners.
Okay, more to the story at http://twitchy.com/justmindy/2023/08/31/desantis-super-pac-shifting-support-to-trump-n2386774
Mr. Thomas is known for overpromising and underperforming, according to the article. The most he collected was around $1600 as per FEC reports. The money totally disappeared at the last report. Pres. Trump should stay far, far away from this grifter with a sketchy record, just as DeSantis did. Be careful where you donate to.
It was all a lie. Thomas is a scammer who claimed $50M in donations, but the FEC reports that were filed came to less than $2K, most of which seems to have gone into his pocket. The link about this man is in post #10.
You’d think that someone working for Pres. Trump would do a little research before a response is tossed out into cyberspace. I wonder how much he made off the president’s other campaigns?
Isn’t this the “super PAC” that only raised about $1500 and all of that went to the guy running it? It’s a scam, but a lot of people who hate Desantis are falling for it hook, line and sinker..
To me, the significant thing is that it shifted to Trump and immediately. No prevarication. No other candidate. Trump is still the outsider, the rebel, the voice for all of us dissatisfied with the Uniparty and their self-serving ways.
RDS is my man, no matter what.
He’s now a meatball sub!
Another egg to the face.
All he had to do was support MAGA in 2024 and 2028 was his.
But nooooooo.
You just made Renoxxxx cry.
Ouch.
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