As DeSantis gears up for a likely 2024 White House bid — with or without Trump in the race — the Florida governor is winning over some of the former president’s biggest benefactors
As Ron DeSantis gears up for a likely 2024 White House bid — with or without Donald Trump in the race — the Florida governor is winning over some of the former president’s biggest benefactors.
DeSantis has already raised more than $100 million — a record setting pace for a single election cycle in Florida — and is an overwhelming favorite to win reelection this year, a victory that could leave him with a huge war chest as the 2024 election cycle begins. Major GOP donor Richard Uihlein, an Illinois-based businessman who supported DeSantis in 2018, contributed $700,000 to the governor four years ago. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have given $1.2 million in 2022.
John North, chief financial officer of Copart, the company Johnson founded, said Johnson “isn’t interested” in discussing his support for Trump or political contributions. Jeff Yass, a Pennsylvania billionaire, has also given DeSantis $100,000 this cycle compared to $3,000 in 2018. Yass is not a Trump donor, but has given millions to Republican causes in recent election cycles, including more than $20 million in 2020 to Club for Growth, a conservative group whose vice president of government affairs is Scott Parkinson, who was DeSantis’ chief of staff when he was in Congress.
“The guy is so mercurial,” Rooney said of Trump. “And there are so many things floating around from lawsuits to the January 6 stuff. If the primary were today, Trump gets it, but I think his popularity is going down.”
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