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RandySF

(57,588 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 03:42 PM Jul 2020

DeSantis Is Said to Quietly Hinder Fund-Raising for Trump Convention

WASHINGTON — When President Trump first threatened to pull the Republican National Convention out of Charlotte, N.C., Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida started campaigning to bring the event to his state.

But now, as convention planners in Jacksonville seek to raise tens of millions of dollars on an almost impossibly rushed time frame, and in the middle of a raging pandemic, the governor is hindering those efforts, interviews show.

Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, has directed his top fund-raiser, Heather Barker, to tell donors not to give to the convention because of a personal dispute between the governor and Susie Wiles, his former campaign manager who is serving as an informal adviser to the convention planners, according to multiple people familiar with his actions.

Ms. Wiles is a veteran Republican operative who led Mr. Trump’s Florida team in 2016 and who ran Mr. DeSantis’s 2018 campaign for governor. Mr. DeSantis’s relationship with Ms. Wiles soured over his suspicion that she had leaked embarrassing information.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/politics/trump-florida-convention-desantis.html

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DeSantis Is Said to Quietly Hinder Fund-Raising for Trump Convention (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2020 OP
Passive aggressive or just chicken C_U_L8R Jul 2020 #1
I am starting to think of DiS as Trump's mini me. salin Jul 2020 #3
Predictably, the RNC is already a clusterfuck. Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2020 #2
"There must be a way I can play to both sides!" struggle4progress Jul 2020 #4
All those GOP'er bodies piling up in the er and the morgue.. Historic NY Jul 2020 #5

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,079 posts)
2. Predictably, the RNC is already a clusterfuck.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 03:45 PM
Jul 2020

I think the odds it is held in Florida as a traditional open convention is rather low at this point.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
5. All those GOP'er bodies piling up in the er and the morgue..
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 04:42 PM
Jul 2020

must be on his mind, because the rest of Florida isn't

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