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 $9.4 million of that fundraising coming in the one-week wake of his arrest at the Fulton County jail in Georgia on a 41-count indictment.
His campaign noted that the president has sold tens of thousands of t-shirts and mugs featuring “mugshot merchandise.”
The president’s stalwart dedication to running for reelection despite the legal battles being waged against him has simply served to solidify his popularity among Republican voters nationwide.
Thomas explained to the Daily Mail that he believed Trump possessed a superior level of “campaign savvy and discipline” in his 2024 presidential reelection campaign.
Seems McCain-Feingold need to be scraped.
McCain didn’t leave us with much good — including obamacare.
Now, that is actually amusing! lol
That is correct as well. May be Swamy or Nikki will emerge later on. Long ways to go. We have not even had Iowa primary yet. I am voting Trump in Florida primary.
Hmmm....what say traitor Steve Cortes, now?
Bwahahaha.
Yeah....I was wondering about that....
Bannon is getting the last laugh. After Cortes defected to RD you recall that Bannon clearly said Cortes never would be on War Room again.
Big mistake. HUGE.
Would that be Steve Cortes, with an “s”?
Maybe he’ll try to get back onto War Room and we can let him have it in the chat.
DeSantis didn’t stand a chance. He was sneaky and deceitful and then finally announced his run. By doing so, he stabbed the MAGA founder in the back. The base loves Donald Trump. How DeSantis could have thought that they’d support him, after he pulls a stunt like that is mind-boggling. Most people have more loyalties and integrity.
This story has the odor of, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
No, I am FOR RDS. I was never into groupthink.
Yessssss....that Steve Cortesssss.
Your post is spot on!
Agree....YUGE mistake, by Cortesssss.
Oh sure al, DeSantos stands for the small independent guy, not the donor class Bush level neocon$ looking for another war...You're on the case al.☺
Where’s the OUTRAGE now that all the supposed globalist billionaire scum donors are switching to supporting Trump, instead?
The truth is, they never really supported DeSantis after he attacked Disney. But we should see 1,000 posts a day now attacking Trump instead over his globalist donors, just as we saw against DeSantis.
You are correct. Good observation.
Notice that not one of the DeSanctimonious Trolls have responded to this?
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