GOP Crossroad – Choosing Their Führer

Example in detail: via CrooksAndLiars.com

Republican mega-donor Thomas Peterffy told the Financial Times that he, and a “bunch of friends,” are pausing plans to fund DeSantis’a potential 2024 presidential campaign because of the Florida Governor’s stance on abortion and his enthusiasm for banning books in classrooms.

And then there are DeSantis’s comments about Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine.

And it’s not just skittish donors like Richard Uihlein or Thomas Peterffy, who went public with his complaints last week. Several other top donors to DeSantis were livid about the governor referring to the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute,” with at least one major donor calling DeSantis to urge a walk-back, a source with knowledge of the outreach and another person briefed on it say. “My understanding is that the message was: ‘If we wanted a fucking MAGA candidate, we would donate to Donald Trump,'” the second source says.

Maybe, just maybe, voters don’t care about DeSantis’s attack on wokeism, which is the weirdest platform ever for a serious candidate to run on.

“But some of those donors are now bailing, because it looks increasingly as if DeSantis’s intolerance and conspiracy theorizing weren’t a political show — they’re who he really is. And the big money was looking for a charlatan, not a genuine fanatic.” https://t.co/1JTtykbliz — CoffeeTumbler (@CoffeeTumbler1) April 18, 2023

The Midnight Hour    /    Ray Charles