Posted on 01/21/2024 11:48:55 AM PST by conservative98
Salem, New Hampshire—The top echelon of the DeSantis campaign has begun having frank conversations with donors about whether the Florida governor should remain in the race, National Review has learned.
In recent days people close to the governor have begun making calls to top donors laying out what the campaign sees as their options at this point, which include possibly dropping out of the race in the coming days.
The campaign continues to tell reporters that their candidate will stay in the race through South Carolina, force rival and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to drop out should she lose her home state, and hopefully go toe-to-toe with Trump in the event that she drops out.
But behind closed doors, DeSantis allies are of course mindful of the fact that the Florida governor continues to poll in the single digits in New Hampshire compared with Haley, who is still polling behind Trump but is gaining on him in some surveys. As recently as Tuesday, one day after DeSantis finished roughly 30 points behind first-place finisher Donald Trump in Iowa, the campaign insisted that DeSantis still had a path forward to the nomination.
The DeSantis campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another source tells National Review that the bundler page on the campaign’s finance website is no longer working, and that when credentialed individuals try to enter login information on the site, an error message appears. The campaign did not immediately respond when asked whether the website was experiencing a glitch.
Rumors about DeSantis’s drop-out timeline continue to swirl here after the campaign cancelled the governor’s scheduled appearances on several Sunday shows. He is currently scheduled to appear at a meet-and-greet event in Manchester, New Hampshire, at 5p.m. Sunday.
This is a developing story
Let us see if DeSantis shows up at the 5PM event today.
As campaigns near their end you have to read the tea leaves—otherwise you will be the last to know.
Desantis is over; Disimps mourn him and get treated for your TDS...he will never be GOP nominee for president now in 2024 nor in 2028 or ever.
DeSantos is asking the fat insider donors if they got another 25 million they can throw at him to keep this charade going another couple weeks?
Pathetic...
That will serve as a cognitive function test for the donors
If he is asking donors if he should stay in the race, is he really asking them for more money?
I’ve often heard that campaign money dries up if presidential candidates do not do well in Iowa and New Hampshire.
There are other issues too, such as, do candidates want to embarrass themselves by getting trumped by Trump by large margins in state after state ,if they do stay in the race? What is the point in staying in a race if you’re just going to be defeated by large margins week after week and primary after primary?
should thin out the herd of anti-MAGA trolls ... when haley drops out, hopefully the rest will either quit attacking Trump or be banned ...
I wonder if Trump would consider him for VP, but I think he would pick someone loyal to him this time, after the disaster that was Pence.
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