DeSantis's biggest donor threatens to cut off funds unless campaign has 'moderate shift'

The biggest individual donor of RonDeSantis's presidential campaign — at a whopping $20 million — will hold off on sending any more money his way unless a “moderate shift” occurs.

Robert Bigelow, the founder of Budget Suites of America and Bigelow Aerospace, made the largest single contribution of $20 million to DeSantis’s super PAC, Never Back Down. Now, Bigelow says he won't donate another dollar until the conservative governor is “able to generate more on his own,” the hotel entrepreneur told Reuters in an interview Friday.“He does need to shift to get to moderates,” Bigelow said. “He’ll lose if he doesn’t. … Extremism isn’t going to get you elected.

DeSantis signed into law in April a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The law is among the most restrictive in the nation.

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