Posted on 07/14/2023 2:13:08 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
DeSantis formally launched his bid in the final week of May, which was met with scrutiny given the technical difficulties that plagued the highly anticipated Twitter Spaces launch.
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But since entering the race, DeSantis has failed to emerge as the frontrunner, and polls have neither drastically shifted nor are they swinging in his direction, despite his blitz of early primary states such as Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire.
DeSantis’s campaign has also rubbed some potential supporters the wrong way because of missteps by staffers and social media “influencers“ over the past few weeks. With added concerns over potential policy differences, some backers are now looking elsewhere.
According to Politico, former Trump backer Ronald Lauder, a billionaire businessman and Estée Lauder makeup heir, flew to the early primary state of South Carolina to meet with Sen. Scott last month, citing “ three people aware of the late June meeting.” According to the report, he plans to meet with Scott one more time and decide if he should “cut him a check.” That shift follows his support of DeSantis’s 2018 gubernatorial race — donating $200,000 — as well as giving to his super PAC last year.
One individual who reportedly works “closely” with major New York donors said many are “still open and are still looking” for whom to support.
“They originally were with DeSantis. They’re looking for other options and Tim Scott right now is probably their top target,” the individual said, per the outlet,
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The big money cretins don’t realize that we can see their strings. Every candidate that they back is going to be toast.
Top donors sound kind of lost.
If they absolutely can’t have Don how about Vivek?
Oh wait I forgot, neither want war with Russia.
Anyone but Trump. Dumbasses.
Donors shift from DeSantis over to Scott and then maybe over to someone else.
Thrilling pong action like the late 1970s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd7FfGCdCo
This certainly tells you a lot.
The Uniparty/establishment/NeverTrumpers rearrange the chairs on their titanic…
Are these donors getting government kickbacks?
The big donors want open borders in the US and closed borders in Ukraine. They don’t have to donate to Democrats to get this. If the GOP candidate supports this, the big donors don’t care who wins the general election.
First rule of holes.
Let’s celebrate Ron’s “success” in the polls with a quick spin of Tom Petty’s “Free Falling”...
Top donors are a bunch of fools.
“Top donors are reportedly considering moving from supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott in the Republican primary race”
hard to believe that’s true ... tim scott is basically a nobody who is almost completely unknown on the national stage ... which is pretty muchd why scott is polling at about 1% ...
Good luck with that.
Scott torpedoed his own campaign today (as did Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence, thanks to Tucker Carlson), literally promising to make sure the U.S. "defense industrial complex" would always be ready to get weaponry to Ukraine.
He seriously said that.
Tim Scott said what his (military industrialist) constituents wanted to hear.
DeSantis did OK although I almost fell asleep. He didn’t hurt himself. He didn’t have a Pence sized train wreck.
When I was young the rich would waste their money on bad art.
It would have had the same effect if they had formally registered as the RINO Party.
This is the dumbest thing ive ever heard and its obviosly a trump hq planted story. Tim scott is running 6th behind trump, desantis, haley, vivek and pence.
Scott cannot raise money and has no on the ground campaign in iowa or nh.
Scott cannot win south carolina because he will split the ticket with haley, trump and seantis, all of which are better funded than him.
Time to break out a parody of Paul Simon’s “50 ways to...”
Call it “50 Ways to Waste Your Money”
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