Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is going to help raise funds for former President Donald Trump in the next few weeks. He made a promise to do this when he met with Trump last month. This shows that DeSantis wants to support Trump’s potential run for president in 2024. Two people who know about this confirmed it.
The people didn’t want to give their names because the details are not final yet and plans might change in the next few weeks. However, DeSantis is contacting people who give money while his finance team is working fast to plan a schedule that would involve visits to Florida and Texas.
DeSantis is trying to make peace with Trump after months of arguing. Trump used to make fun of DeSantis, but now they are trying to work together. The progress also shows that DeSantis is trying to use his successful fundraising skills to help him if he decides to run for president in 2028. This could be helpful if Trump can’t run again because of term limits.
Roy Bailey, a Dallas investor who helped raise money for DeSantis during his presidential campaign, said he believes other supporters and donors will also follow DeSantis’s lead. “We will be looking at the people who gave money to DeSantis in the past but haven’t given money to President Trump. ” We will try to get donations from those people for him. “That will make a lot of money. ”
DeSantis, who was thought to be a strong candidate to compete against Trump, raised over $183 million for his Republican presidential campaign, but he did not win. The super PAC Never Back Down raised over US$145 million, which is a lot of money and they could collect as much as they wanted. DeSantis collected over $200 million for his 2022 campaign in Florida.
“We are putting effort into raising money to support President Trump and other Republicans running for office,” said Taryn Fenske, spokesperson for DeSantis, in a text to The Associated Press.
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DeSantis intends to gather funds in Florida and Texas for Trump
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DeSantis surpasses Haley as both fall short of Trump in Iowa
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came in second place in Iowa’s caucuses, beating former UN ambassador Nikki Haley who came in third. The contest was mostly focused on Donald Trump.
Mr DeSantis worked very hard to win in the state, but he ended up far behind the former president.
With almost all the votes counted, Mr. Trump has 51% of the votes, Mr. DeSantis has 21%, and Ms. Haley has 19%.
Iowa was the first state where Republican voters chose who they want to be president.
The reason their election is called a caucus is because people have to go in person to a specific place at a certain time to vote.
The person chosen by the party will compete against President Joe Biden in the November election.
At a party in Des Moines, Mr. Trump said it was a great night and encouraged Americans to work together to solve the world’s problems.
He said he will close the border to stop people coming in and called Joe Biden the worst president.
Registered Republicans in Iowa went out in very cold weather to vote at various locations like churches, schools, gyjsonyms, and community centers on Monday evening.
Donald Trump was expected to win in Iowa, and Glenn Jacobs, a former WWE wrestler who supports Trump, had also predicted that Trump would win.
He talked to the BBC before people started voting in Des Moines. He said that the country was going in the wrong direction because of the border crisis and US involvement in the Middle East.
At a high school in Davenport, in the eastern part of the state, a Trump supporter named Brian Romer gave a passionate speech to his fellow Republicans in support of the former president.
“He said that what is happening in this country is similar to what happens in communist countries,” when talking about Mr. Trump’s criminal accusations. “We no longer live in a country where we have freedom. ”
Both DeSantis and Ms. Haley, who used to be governor of South Carolina and US ambassador to the UN under President Trump, said on Monday night that they have a lot of political support.
“They threw a lot of things at us,” Mr. The media didn’t support us. They wrote about our death several months ago.
“Even though there were challenges, we managed to secure our ticket out of Iowa. ”
Kyle Brock gathered people to support Mr. DeSantis at Grant Ragan Elementary School in Waukee, which is a town near Des Moines. He said it was time for Republicans to stop supporting Mr.
“I admire the Florida governor’s honesty, how he presents himself, and what he has accomplished in Florida,” he said.
Mr DeSantis spent a lot of time and money in Iowa, visiting all 99 counties and trying to get support from the state’s important group of evangelical voters. The Florida governor might have a harder time in New Hampshire, which is a more moderate state, when they have their primary next week.
Ms Haley has a small chance of beating Mr Trump in the state, and she says she is gaining momentum.
However, her third-place result was seen as a letdown for a candidate who was expected to do much better in the caucuses.
Hallie Still-Caris went to a meeting at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines and said that Ms. Haley has the best chance of winning in November.
“I see the other people running for President in the Republican party and President Biden,” she said, “and I think she can win the election. ” We need less fighting and less confusion.
Biotech businessman Vivek Ramaswamy said he was stopping his run for president because he was not doing well in the race. He supported Mr.
Mr Biden said on X that it looks like he will be running against Mr. Trump again
“But let me tell you, this election was always going to be us against the extreme Maga Republicans,” the president from the Democratic party said. “It was true yesterday and it will still be true tomorrow. “ -
DeSantis pokes Trump as he speaks out about the hush money issue
Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, broke his silence on Donald Trump’s legal woes on Monday. He criticized the Manhattan district attorney who is seeking charges against the former president and vowed his office would not get involved if the case somehow ended up in Trump’s adopted home state of Florida.
But DeSantis, a potential contender for the Republican presidential candidacy in 2024, refrained from endorsing the outgoing leader and instead appeared to make fun of the predicament Trump finds himself in as he launches a third presidential bid.
Whether Trump should be charged for an alleged payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels linked to an alleged affair is currently being debated by a grand jury.“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” DeSantis said as laughter broke out at a news conference in Panama City, Florida. “I just, I can’t speak to that.”
DeSantis added: “I’ve got real issues to deal with here in the state of Florida.”
The dismissive quips traveled quickly across the state to Mar-a-Lago, where Trump has decamped while he awaits for word on the New York grand jury’s findings. His allies immediately started attacking DeSantis across social media, suggesting he would face a political price for failing to recognize Republicans are rallying around Trump amid his mounting legal threats.
Trump responded in a statement posted to his social media site, Truth Social, leveling a series of personal attacks against DeSantis.
“Ron DeSanctimonious will probably find out about FALSE ACCUSATIONS & FAKE STORIES sometime in the future, as he gets older, wiser, and better known, when he’s unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman, even classmates that are ‘underage’ (or possibly a man!). I’m sure he will want to fight these misfits just like I do!” Trump wrote.
As part of the post Trump also shared a photo that suggested DeSantis had behaved inappropriately with teenage girls while teaching history in Georgia in his early 20s, an image the former president previously shared on social media to go after the Florida governor.
The episode Monday was illustrative of the increasingly fraught rivalry between two of the GOP’s biggest stars as they battle for party supremacy — one made more awkward by their proximity inside the Sunshine State. Trump has suggested his arrest is forthcoming, and if he is in Florida at that moment, it could require a coordinated effort by police in DeSantis’ state.
DeSantis said he is not aware of any arrangements with local law enforcement regarding Trump, and he said he had “no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus.”
The delayed remarks by DeSantis stand in stark contrast to the forceful defense he offered on Trump’s behalf last August when federal authorities seized documents from the former president’s Palm Beach estate. Just hours after the raid, DeSantis on Twitter called the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago “another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves.”
But there was no such tweet this time from DeSantis, who had remained quiet for days amid reports that a New York grand jury was interviewing witnesses and has largely avoided discussing Trump at all amid escalating attacks from the former president and his allies. DeSantis instead last week held events focused on relief for Hurricane Ian victims and the pandemic. He posted a picture from the World Baseball Classic picture standing next to the Miami Marlins mascot.
Over the weekend, as other Republicans criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, for pursuing charges in a case that dates back to the 2016 election, Trump allies engaged in a coordinated pressure campaign to get DeSantis to speak out in defense of the former president.
“Thank you, Vice President @Mike_Pence and @VivekGRamaswamy, for pointing out how Radical Left Democrats are trying to divide our Country in the name of Partisan Politics,” Trump campaigdn adviser Jason Miller wrote on Twitter. “Radio silence from Gov. @RonDeSantisFL and Amb. @NikkiHaley.”
Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., wrote in a tweet on Sunday: “Pay attention to which Republicans spoke out against this corrupt BS immediately and who sat on their hands and waited to see which way the wind was blowing.”
MAGA, Inc sent several emails tracking which Republicans had commented on the potential criminal charges and hitting DeSantis for “remaining silent.” Trump allies acknowledged that this was a concerted effort to force DeSantis to weigh in on the matter, believing that he would have to offer support to Trump.
When DeSantis finally weighed in Monday, it came during an unrelated press conference about central bank digital currencies, a recent area of concern among some conservatives but hardly the topic of the day, given the revelations about Trump’s legal case. He didn’t address Trump’s legal situation until asked by an individual from the Florida Standard, a conservative website friendly to DeSantis.
DeSantis echoed other criticism of Bragg, accusing the Democrat of seeking charges against Trump for political reasons. He compared Bragg to the local state attorney in Tampa, Andrew Warren, who DeSantis controversially removed from office last year over his politics, and linked them both to George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire and progressive donor often at the center of conservative conspiracies.
“If you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, you know, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office, and I think that that’s fundamentally wrong,” DeSantis said.
But DeSantis also seemed to downplay Bragg’s pursuit of Trump as a lesser concern compared to issues related to crime in the city.
“That’s bad, but the real victims are ordinary New Yorkers, ordinary Americans in all these different jurisdictions that they get victimized every day because of the reckless political agenda that the Soros DAs bring to their job,” he said. “They ignore crime and they empower criminals.”
Haley weighed in later Monday, saying a prosecution of Trump would be “for political points.” The former South Carolina governor, who announced her White House campaign last month, told Fox News’ Bret Baier, “And I think what we know is that when you get into political prosecutions like this, it’s more about revenge than it is about justice.”
“I think the country would be better off talking about things that the American public cares about than to sit there and have to deal with some revenge by some political people in New York,” added Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations under Trump.