Murdochs Start to Sour on DeSantis: 'They Can Smell a Loser'

[In It to Win It]

Murdochs Start to Sour on DeSantis: ‘They Can Smell a Loser’

Less than two months into Ron DeSantis’ declared run for president, his most important backers in conservative media are already starting to lose faith.

Since the beginning of the Biden presidency, the powerful Murdoch family has favored the Florida governor in the 2024 presidential primary, largely due to a conviction that DeSantis would be a more electable, and less chaotic, evolution from Donald Trump. But in recent weeks, the Murdochs have grown increasingly displeased with the DeSantis campaign’s perceived stumbles, lackluster polling, and inability to swiftly dethrone Trump, multiple sources tell Rolling Stone. They have also seriously questioned whether the governor is capable of defeating Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.

Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch in particular has been voicing his doubts and frustrations in private discussions and calls, at times wondering if a DeSantis “comeback” is possible at this point. Murdoch is the longtime patriarch of the family that controls Fox News, the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other media properties that are highly influential among conservatives.

“[Rupert’s] understandable worry is that we may end up being stuck with Trump anyway,” a senior Fox source tells Rolling Stone. “And DeSantis is underperforming. Anybody can see that … [and the Murdochs], they’re seeing it, too.”

[EYESORE 9001]

1. If they'd paid my consultancy fee

I’d have told them that a long time ago

[allegorical oracle]

3. Rupert always looks like he's smelling something bad, so it threw him off DeSatan's

sulfuric, brimstony odor.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Might've been ol' Ruprecht himself

He looks like he’s emitting sulfuric effluvium.

[spanone]

2. they'll gladly back trmp.

[Omnipresent]

5. Desantis is so skilled at insurance reform in Florida...

That Farmers Insurance decided to wave bye bye to at least 100,000 policy holders and leave the state!

When he ran for reelection, his campaign commercials, had all these different people in it saying “Thanks Ron” for the things he accomplished for them.

I would just like to add my two cents and say, “Fuck you Ron!”.

[C_U_L8R]

6. De scent of the descending DeSantis

What a stink.

[inwiththenew]

7. They are all starting to realize no one is coming to save them from the monster they created

It's going to be Trump unless he keels over. DeSantis was really their only hope and he's fading fast. All the other declared candidates stand even less of a chance than DeSantis.