Trump, DeSantis Meet In Florida To Discuss Fundraising for 2024 Election
“DeSantis told his most loyal donors during a retreat in Hollywood this month that he would be fundraising for Trump’s campaign”
Free Florida governor Ron DeSantis and former president Donald Trump met in Florida this weekend, reportedly to discuss fundraising for the 2024 elections.
Great coverage of today’s meeting from @politico @leonardkl.
DeSantis meets with Trump to help with 2024 election https://t.co/lvsTCArnNO via @politico
— Robert J Salvador (@RobertJSalvador) April 28, 2024
Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump seem ready to put their feud from the Republican presidential primary aside — for real this time.
The two Florida Republicans met in Miami Sunday morning to talk about how they could work together during the general election, according to half a dozen people familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to speak freely.
. . . . The get-together was arranged by Florida real-estate broker Steve Witkoff, several people confirmed to POLITICO. A Trump campaign official said it was a “good meeting set at the request of Gov. DeSantis.”
Three DeSantis donors texted POLITICO to say that they thought the move for the two men to make peace was “smart.”
DeSantis told his most loyal donors during a retreat in Hollywood this month that he would be fundraising for Trump’s campaign, POLITICO was first to report. The Republican governor proved himself to be a prodigious fundraiser during his 2022 reelection campaign, raising a record sum in excess of $200 million. He then parlayed much of that money toward a political action committee for a failed presidential run.
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
Imagine if Governor DeSantis raised money for a voter registration operation that helps elect President Trump.
DeSantis would go down in history as having helped save the country.
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) April 28, 2024
Good. Repubs need to come together to win
— Scout Derden (@ScoutDerden) April 28, 2024
Trump chooses DeSantis as his VP, it’s over for Biden. There will be no stopping a Trump/DeSantis ticket.
And then DeSantis in 2028 and 32.
C’mon man! ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/mVlwGwxEg1
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 28, 2024
I sincerely hope they make up and work together this campaign to ensure a Trump win.
That being said, Trump would have to beg Desantis to be his VP, going from governor in the best state of America to being a mantle piece in the Senate is a demotion. What good could he do as VP?— Private Tom (@PrivateTom69) April 28, 2024
Whoever Trump picks, I'm happy with it.
I trust Trump that much— Florida For Trump 2024 (@KelleysAmerica) April 28, 2024
* to clarify since it seems some people aren't reading the full tweet. This has nothing to do with the VP role.
Fundraising for down ballot candidates.
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 28, 2024
The meeting between Trump & DeSantis pic.twitter.com/LuL9hkflEU
— Tinfoil Baddie (@tinfoilbaddie) April 28, 2024
This could be a very good thing.
Hopefully the political primary hatchet can be buried and we can move forward from here.
— MoSmith (@MoSmithHMC) April 28, 2024
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
Once the nomination is secured via delegate count, we should all unify under the Big Tent. That is the only thing I admire about the dems.
Trump-MAGA 2024.
That’s the exact opposite of what Trump and his supporters here have said for the last year. They have posted here time and time and time again, that if Trump isn’t the nominee, then they will leave the Republican Party, and they blame everything on DeSantis, the Neo Con Republicans, the GOPe, the one world governments, the Uniparty, the one worlders, the liberal Jews, etc. The Trump supporters here glorified the destruction of America as justified if people and the Republicans rejected Trump. So now they have their way, and the destruction of America is assured. Thank you DFT.
How silly. No added value. The fact is that Trump won the contest, so it matters not at all what was said last year. This shows that Trump is able to bury the hatchet more than what gets you off.
How many Presidents have not liked their VPs and vice versa?
Trump will need all the help he can get. DeSantis is the best Governor ever elected and knows how to handle libtards, but he didn’t do as well as hoped in the primaries. He seems to lack the dazzle factor in running for office and barely won here in Florida to a weasel of immense stupidity. If he runs with Trump, they will win. We could have four years of them as a team, and then eight years of DeSantis.
Life is full of compromise, and they won’t always see eye to eye, but they will have a WINNING TEAM!
I thought that DeSantis had burned the bridge so badly that he had screwed the pooch. This is a good sign, I guess the political bruises and taught DeSantis a few things. All around this is a better outcome for DeSantis and America.
Trump lost the contest. Just like Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, and Stacey Abrams. But they all, just like Trump, said the election was stolen. Losers always say the election what stolen.
You should donate your brain to science when you no longer need it.
What happened in 2020 is debatble. But you were complaining about is LAST YEAR! Figures you would sidetrack.
Your TDS is pathetic. Amazing how bitter you come off.
Bullshit. Nobody said anything of the kind. What we said was that if he was CHEATED out of it, and they removed him from the ballot BECAUSE MUH INDICTMENTS, that we weren’t going to vote for whatever RINO trash they substituted. And many of us brought the receipts for all of the trash screaming that they’d never vote for Trump being the same crew spewing about how we had to ‘unify’ behind Romney for the sake of the party.
The NeverTrumpers like you were the ones screaming and stamping their feet and spewing that we were all stupid for voting for Trump and that they would never vote for him even if he won so we should just shut our mouths and vote for DeSantis/Haley or they were going to take their ball and go home. THATS when we said that if they actually removed Trump for somebody that hadn’t won legitimately that we’d be sitting out.
No matter how big of a tantrum you NeverTrumpers threw, Trump was winning the entire time, and was above 50% for the bulk of that time. At no point after any challenger actually declared a campaign were they in any real position to threaten him.
DeSantis was his only seni-serious challenger, but he killed his chances by waiting to be ‘safe’ and have them pass his special carveout so he could run for President without resigning as Governor, which cost him a good amount of support, and then he ran such a horrifically bad campaign that I think he’s basically removed himself from the national discussion forever.
But if DeSantis had run a better campaign and won the primary, I’d pull the lever for him without question. But he didn’t.
Well, yeah, they kind of did. Often.
And lots of people said similar things about a Pres. Trump win in the primaries, that they won’t vote for him.
The Trump haters and RINOs in particular.
Some won’t. That’s a problem for Trump. His vitriolic lunatic cultists turned off a lot of people, including me. Obviously, we have to rise above the crazy fringe and vote for the better potential president. And between Biden and Trump, that is clearly Trump.
But let’s keep in mind that this is not a badge of honor for Trump; he’s barely beating a clearly addled, barely conscious puppet who is, apparently intentionally, destroying this country. Trump should be beating Biden–who has historic disapproval ratings–by double digits, but he’s not. Luckily for Trump, this whole pro-Hamas campus thing is happening, so if Biden fails to stand by Israel, he will lose this election (the pro-Hamas state of Michigan aside) and Trump will benefit from Biden’s loss.
I very much prefer a President Trump over FJB, any day of any week in any year. By miles.
Florida has a history of electing Republican governors who fail to generate national appeal.
Biden has no followers. All he has is neverTrump.
Calling Trump supporters cultists is the reason why Trump supporters hate the Republicans. YOU aren’t any different than the ugly Progressives.
“he’s barely beating a clearly addled, barely conscious puppet who is, apparently intentionally, destroying this country.”
What a joke. It wouldn’t matter who the nominee is, there would be the same level of support for the “barely conscious puppet”.
And DeSantis wouldn’t be “barely” beating the puppet.
The deranged never stop. Sad.
Trump is barely polling ahead of the meat puppet because young women want their abortions. It is the only thing that matters to them, and single women vote Dem by a 3-1 ratio.
It’s time to give it up, JR. As the adage goes: “Give up. Give In. In the end, It would be better (for progressives like you) to surrender before you even begin. If you are lost, be lost. Then you will not care if you are ever found.”
You remember that time Kamala called Joe a racist? 😂😂😂
In about 2014 I was so disgusted with the Repubs that I decided then that I was done with them and the only reason that I have voted since is because of Trump and only Trump. Desantis is just a shorter version of Romney, a cuter version of McCain and a twin of Graham’s
That’s why you’re called a “cultist”. No connection to fact or reason, just your “hero” worship.
Nah.
That was the TDS infected DeSantis supporters.
Ron for USAG
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/781100/capsule_616x353.jpg?t=1561709182
Well, either him or Ted — The Zodiac — Cruz.
I’m kinda leaning toward preferring candidates and appointments for their entertainment value. Either of those would be /moar popcorn as AG.
We don’t want a grandstander like Cruz as AG. The lesson of Sessions is the President needs a tough, competent, effective, partisan SOB in that position. The AG is the President’s wingman. RDS would be good. There might be others who are better.
“…tough, competent, effective, partisan SOB in that position.”
That’s well put.
Myself, now, I’m looking for a substitute for “partisan” as that’s gotten encrusted with some out of the box nonsense. Kind of like, you want the AG to make the case for what they’re doing clearly and unapologetic ally, without “grandstanding.” You want the AG to … aggressively support the administration getting what it wants, strictly within the law.
and Glenn Youngkin for VP
That would be interesting. As in fun to watch.
If we’re playing dream team, Rick Grenell has to be in the next admin in some highly-visible role.
This is good news although the hatchet burial happened a long time ago.
However one little criticism for some of the comments in the article.
VP DeSantis is not a thing, in a close election he might not become VP elect (Florida has a lot of electoral votes). It is good that DeSantis is one of the people Trump gets along with, VP nominee DeSantis however is not a thing because of the whole shall not be from the same state/the amendment to make that possible still penalizes the VP nominee in such a ticket..
There never should have been a hatchet to bury. Except that’s not Trump and not what his supporters want.
I completely agree, there was no reason for the nomination to have been what it became, and I did very strongly call out Trump for the Disney thing (which even Trump admitted was just to go after DeSantis).
However the nomination is over, Trump is our guy, and we should be glad when he does something good.
Trump announcing his choice for VP prior to the DNC presidential selection would be a major tactical error.
Never hand an adversary an advantage.
The only way Biden isn’t nominated is if he slips and falls and ends up in the ICU or the morgue. But this could happen – even at the Dem Convention, or afterward.
But Trump has his convention first. He has to name a VP.
Someone
here is sad
Yeesh, another error from DeSantis. He should be fundraising to help protect the down-ballot races from having Trump on the slate.
You’re an idiot 😂😂
From you that’s high praise. I gave you a thumbs up.
Surely a village somewhere has noticed you missing? 😂😂
They sent me to find you. 🙂
Ask your doctor if any of these new antipsychotic drugs are right for you:
• Aripiprazole (Abilify)
• Asenapine (Saphris)
• Cariprazine (Vraylar)
• Clozapine (Clozaril)
• Lurasidone (Latuda)
• Olanzapine (Zyprexa)
Which part is insane? Believing that Biden would lose to anyone, even Trump, or believing that spending money on a candidate that’s going to win anyway is a waste of money?
What are you talking about? Are you pretending that Trump is a liability on the ballot? Because I’m going to have to ask you to back that up with more than “Because I said so?”
He’s already cost us the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Presidential elections. Coulda been Cruz in 2016, got us Biden in 2020, cost us DeSantis in 2024, and we already know that a Trump term is followed by a Dem so we’re screwed in 2028 too.
Trump’s insults are like Don RIckles’s insults – humor, not grudge-expression.
Trump is the first guy you’d expect to make peace, not the last. He’s above it all, really.
It would be nice if it were so. Unfortunately, I’ve lost track of the number of times Trump has trash-talked somebody he previously endorsed or even named to his administration. Whether or not they deserved it is almost inconsequential — either he screwed up before, or he screwed up later on.
And like adults they’ve moved on.
4 more years of Trump followed by 8 years of Death Santis 🤌
Name some of the “times”.
Wow. Talk about missing the point.
Trump needs help fundraising. It’s that simple. Frankly the 100 texts a day from Trump and WinRed are a PIA! Stop it guys. The begging, shaming, heart string pulling crap doesn’t move the needle. Not to mention the selling of
My email and cell phone number to other candidates and causes is ugly. If there is one law I would like passed at the federal level, it would make it illegal to “spoof” phone numbers by candidates and political parties. I get the same text from 10 different numbers a day. FJB
As an old-school phone phreak from the ’60s, I can tell you this — if the phone companies WANTED to stop number spoofing, it would disappear immediately. The fact that it remains possible tells you all you need to know. It is not a technical problem.
I was also a phone freak, it was only a few years ago that I pitched all those newsletters.
I saw a post about this on X… and some people said it had to be bs.. But, I believe Fuzzy. Nothing surprises me now a days. TY Fuzzy.
Trump and DeSantis are more/less in the same political lane though DeSantis is a bit more to the right. During the primary DeSantis was doing two things:
1. Getting his name into the Presidential conversation for both ’24 and beyond to avoid the potential of him missing his moment as Chris Christy didn’t do.
2. Providing a realistic alternative within the new political center mass of the GoP base; center/right populism that demands Govt at all levels do their core jobs, reduce the Govt ability to become a nanny and to begin ending some of the crony capitalism that benefits big businesses at the expense of small businesses and consumers.
Hopefully everyone who is butthurt that DeSantis ran or upset that Trump is almost certainly going to become the GoP nominee at the nominating convention this summer have figured out by now that another 4 years of Biden and his EO/Regulatory regime is going to cause massive damage, some of which can’t be reversed. This election cycle really is too important to be butthurt or bitter and stay home letting the d/prog take a win.
“…to avoid the potential of him missing his moment as Chris Christy…”
Or Cuomo the Elder, His will he / won’t he was so obvious it was called out in Primary Colors.
His problem with going national was the NYS Rolodex and captive base only translates a little nationally. From DC national politics NYS remains the provinces.
RDS raised over $200 million… but from how many people?
Not many; he was mainly funded by the billionaire class in a desperate effort to stop Trump from winning the primaries. Now that Trump has won the nomination, the next logical step for these people is to cozy up to Caesar to better stab him in the back.
RDS was suckered into picking the wrong horse when all he had to do is wait just four years. Trump is not entertaining him for anything.
What? Everything about this is completely insane. And Trump would be the first to tell you so. Stop.
Insane?
What’s insane is the slobbering you do over Cruz, then DeSantis.
As I have always noted, I don’t know what is in the heart of DeSantis, but I do know the facts:
Yale, Bush family frat
Harvard
Jag
Congress
And last, but most important, he took the personal payoff money from Rupert Murdoch.
That’s how you spell “Government Man”.
Insane is not understanding that.
George, have you been reading and are you still following the deranged and ungrateful Sundance over at his pretend treehouse? You sound just like him. A former Publix produce manager who despises Gov. Ron while forgetting how quickly the governor restored his neighborhood and its surrounding community to power, utilities, hospital access, roadways, bridges, and other critical infrastructure after Ian. The ridiculous blogger lives in Cape Coral.
Take a deep breath, people. The pragmatic approach is to look forward four years after Trump wins the 2024 election. The VP will be the natural pick for the 2028 election, and no doubt President DeSantis would have an excellent eight years, so there needs to be more working-together and less tearing-apart.
There is no way that DeSantis agrees to be Trump’s VP. No. Way.
I certainly hope not, but given RDS’s attempt to please the MAGA vote in the primary, how impossible is it?
In the history of US politics, I bet few men have ever turned down the opportunity to be the VP nominee on a major party ticket. I think if asked, DeSantis wouldn’t be any different than most. He’d accept. But, there’s the 12th Amendment problem that wouldn’t be easily remedied. Electors can’t vote for a president and vice president from the same state. So, one of them would have to change their residency, like Dick Cheney did in 2000. For Cheney (who was living in Texas when Bush picked him), it wasn’t a big problem because he already owned a home in northern Virginia and he wasn’t the sitting Governor of Texas. It was a no-brainer.
I guess in theory Trump could temporarily change his residency back to NY, CT or NJ, places where he owns property. But, Trump doesn’t strike me as the kind of person to accommodate someone else.
IMO the VP position has altered into a ‘terminal grade position’ from the prior understanding or conventional wisdom that the VP was automatically the presumptive nominee and the favorite to win following his term, at least in the GoP.
Bush was the last sitting VP to be elected President. Nixon was VP to Eisenhower and got the GoP nomination but lost to JFK in 1960 and then defeated VP Humphrey in ’68. No other VP have been elected President since Van Buren in 1836. of a century. The record of successful Presidential campaigns by a sitting VP is very thin in the post US Civil War era. Bush was the only one to pull it off. Before that Van Buren 1836, then all the way back to Jefferson in 1800 and Adams in 1796. That’s not a strong record for a path to the WH, IMO.
But of course, more of them did better on the “alternate career path…” like Johnson, Arthur, LBJ, Ford, and
Kamala(sorry, baby, all that time and effort wasted).12th is a reason why DeSantis would be an offered VP slot like no other and would likely be the first person to turn it down if he was offered (and why Trump will not be offering it anyway).
It would be as irresponsible on the side of DeSantis to accept as Trump to offer because as you said the 12th is an extremely serious issue.
Does Trump even have time to pull a Cheney at this point?
CT and NJ are places that will be pulling many new Alvin Braggs, and you will find NY is even worst if Trump goes back to being a NY resident. It sucks but you can’t run for a national office as a Republican based in a blue state.
Furthermore the way Cheney settled doubts was to sell all of his property in Texas, Trump has a much bigger stake in Florida than Cheney did in Texas.
I should hope DeSantis wouldn’t accept and Trump wouldn’t offer, the 12th is real and Florida has a lot of EV.
“I guess in theory Trump could temporarily change his residency back to NY, CT or NJ, places where he owns property.”
Geez, talk about Sophie’s Choice. Aside from Florida, Trump doesn’t seem to own ANY residences that aren’t in Amerizuela. Not even a tony ski lodge in Vail. This is where years of being a Democrat come back to bite him in the ass.
If anything DeSantis should run to replace Rubio. No there is a rino snake, if ever there was one!! FJB
That would be a good idea, but Rubio isn’t up again until 2028 IIRC and I would expect that DeSantis will be running for pres. again with Trump out of the way.
Regardless of weather DeSantis runs s VP or not, what is important is that he mended his relationship with Trump. A the end of trump’s term, he will likely have the ability to make or break DeSantis.
There is no way that Trump agrees to DeSantis as VP. No. Way.
Traditionally the VP slot is given to someone who can help pick up a state for the candidate. Florida is a lock for Trump, and it would give him nothing in the EC. In addition, VPs are often terrible choices for nominees… if things are bad during a presidency, if the president is just not possible, or even if the fickle American people are tired of whoever is sitting in the office then the running VP takes the hit. And the VP job isn’t training wheels for the presidency. It’s a do-nothing job that can be filled by a warm body… and if you disagree then look at the list of veeps we’ve had the last few decades and be honest about how many of them would have made good presidents.
DeSantis, for his part, would likely not want to be associated with a Trump presidency too closely. If Trump closes his term in scandal then he can’t exactly pretend to be clear of that if he’s the VP. He needs to serve out his term here in Florida, make sure the state is secure from Democrats taking power, and then run in 2028 free and clear.
Will Trump put him in charge of the Department of Sanctimony?
No, that will forever be Nina’s.