DESANTIS JUST SUFFERED HIS BIGGEST BLOW YET…
November 16, 2023 (21 hours ago)
Things haven’t been going Ron DeSantis’ way. This wasn’t the expected storyline for the GOP’s “golden boy.” Now, after a failed 2024 campaign, his persona and reputation seem irreparably tarnished. Sadly, this massive decline in his political career was avoidable. Ron just needed to bide his time, support President Trump fully, and wait for his own “turn.” Instead, he let the NeverTrump crowd and the Bush regime get in his ear, feeding his ego with the idea that he could take on Trump. But that was never in the cards, no matter how many indictments the Deep State stacked up against the 45th president. And now, the final blow to Ron’s political career has just been struck with lethal force.He lost his biggest donor to Trump.
The Hill:
Former President Trump on Thursday picked up support from two major GOP donors, serving the latest blow to his GOP rivals as they struggle to make a dent in his sizable lead.
Robert Bigelow, one of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) most prominent donors, said he is switching his support from the Florida governor to Trump.
Bigelow, owner of the Budget Suites of America and founder of Bigelow Aerospace, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that DeSantis is “not strong enough,” nor is he the commander in chief the U.S. needs.
“At this point in time, we need the guy in the White House who scares the hell out of every other leader in the world who intends to do harm [to] to this country,” Bigelow told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday.
In an August interview with Reuters, Bigelow warned he would cut off funds to DeSantis’s 2024 campaign if he did not adopt a more “moderate approach.”
Backing Trump is a large shift for Bigelow, who initially threw his support behind DeSantis in April, when he told Time he could not support Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
Now Bigelow tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal that despite being “bombastic” and “egotistical,” Trump still has proven himself as a president, telling the paper Trump “was a really good commander … which is what this country needs.
Bigelow said he still wants to see the former president “get out of the kangaroo court problems that he’s involved in” and ensure he won’t be sent to jail before financially backing him, the Las Vegas-Review Journal reported.
But the good news for Team Trump doesn’t stop there.
Top GOP donor and Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus also announced his endorsement of Trump on Thursday, arguing the former president is the “simple choice” in a high-stakes political world.
In an op-ed with RealClearPolitics, Marcus, 94, said while he is “exhausted” by politics and wanted the younger generations to take the lead, he realized he could not walk away because “the stakes are just too high.”
President Trump is really besting the Florida governor, even in his own backyard. Trump’s also ahead of Biden in several key swing states. So, why is DeSantis still hanging in there? Well, there are many theories. The one you hear the most is that DeSantis is crossing his fingers for Trump to land in the slammer, thinking that’ll clear his way to the White House. But here’s the thing Ron might be missing: If Trump gets locked up, his support will likely skyrocket even more. As it stands now, DeSantis has nowhere to go but home.
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