The donors behind Ron DeSantis for president in 2024 are now asking him not to take part in this one, according to recent reports.
(We heard this rumor last week that the big bucks behind DeSantis for 2024 were abandoning ship.)
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Donors and supporters of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are beginning to debate whether the potential Republican 2024 presidential nominee should run in the next election cycle — a bid that would put him against former President Donald Trump — or wait until in 2028, according to reports.
According to a report by NBC News, donors and DeSantis supporters are having doubts about the prospect of the governor’s possible presidential bid. According to the report, one of the main issues appears to be the governor’s ability to take on Trump – who has been critical of the governor for months – head-on.
NBC reports:
Ron DeSantis may be missing his moment.
A number of donors and allies of the Florida governor fear his recent stumbles suggest he may not be ready for a brutal fight against Donald Trump. Some believe DeSantis needs to speed up his schedule to run for the GOP presidential nomination and start directly confronting Trump if he is to have any chance of thwarting the former president’s momentum. Others think DeSantis should avoid Trump altogether and wait until 2028 to run.
At a Sunday lunch after the annual Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach, Florida, a group of 16 prominent Republicans, described by one attendee as a mix of DeSantis supporters and Trump ‘skeptics’, discussed doubts about the governor’s position going forward if he clashes with the former president.
“They loved him — a lot of them might even support him,” the person who was at the event said of DeSantis. “But they generally thought his long-term future was better without him trying to take Trump head-on.”
“He’s going to get scarred” by Trump, the person added.
Then there’s billionaire conservative freight tycoon Richard Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth, whose combined $500,000 in contributions ranked them among the most generous donors to DeSantis’ 2022 re-election campaign.
DeSantis’ recent sarcastic remarks about President Trump as the corrupt Soros-backed prosecutor in New York threatened arrest on totally bogus and fabricated charges may have been the end of DeSantis.
After waiting two days, DeSantis came out and criticized President Trump. It was the beginning of the end.
Then later that week, DeSantis said he was a senior executive, indicating he didn’t want to be President Trump’s VP pick, and that was it for Ron.
Ron DeSantis says he’s not interested in being Trump’s VP pick, ‘I’m an executive type’