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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced in $15 million in fundraising the previous three months for his Republican presidential marketing campaign.
The DeSantis marketing campaign additionally confirmed to Fox Information that it is transferring workers from Florida to Iowa, the place the Jan. 15 caucuses lead off the GOP presidential nominating calendar.
The marketing campaign touted that their haul “shatters expectations” as they introduced their July-September third quarter of 2023 fundraising on Wednesday.
DeSantis has been attempting to vary the narrative after a sequence of setbacks over the summer time, which triggered weeks of damaging tales spotlighting his marketing campaign’s overspending, workers layoffs, change of management and different points.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in the course of the second Republican presidential main debate on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. (Robyn Beck)
“This vital fundraising haul not solely offers us with the sources we’d like within the battle for Iowa and past, however it additionally shuts down the doubters who counted out Ron DeSantis for much too lengthy,” marketing campaign supervisor James Uthmeier stated in an announcement.
A couple of third of the DeSantis marketing campaign workers, together with prime political and communications officers, have been informed on Wednesday that they’d be headed quick time period to Iowa. DeSantis has spent most of his time on the marketing campaign path in Iowa the previous two months, as he goals for a robust end in an effort to turn into the highest different to former President Donald Trump, the commanding frontrunner within the GOP nomination race as he makes his third straight White Home run.
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an Iowa Religion and Freedom fall banquet, on Sept. 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
The developments have been first reported by the New York Occasions and confirmed by Fox Information.
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The DeSantis aligned tremendous PAC By no means Again Down has taken over most of the conventional operations and primary duties dealt with by a presidential marketing campaign, together with grassroots outreach and planning and coordinating occasions.
DeSantis was as soon as solidly in second place within the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. However he is seen his numbers within the surveys erode in latest months as Trump expanded his lead over the Florida governor.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to visitors throughout a “Commit To Caucus” rally on the Jackson County Fairgrounds on Sept. 20, 2023, in Maquoketa, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Photographs)
And in latest weeks, former Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations within the Trump administration, has vaulted over DeSantis into second place in some polls in two different essential early voting states – New Hampshire and her house state of South Carolina.
However the DeSantis political staff says the brand new fundraising figures – raised between his marketing campaign, management PAC, and joint fundraising committee – is making the case that issues have stabilized.
“Due to the beneficiant assist of Individuals on the lookout for a pacesetter who will ship outcomes, this marketing campaign is constructed to final and win,” Uthmeier emphasised. “Ron DeSantis is the one candidate on this race who can beat each Donald Trump and Joe Biden, revive our financial system, safe the border, make America vitality dominant, and finish the weaponization of presidency as soon as and for all.”
Pointing to optimistic evaluations DeSantis garnered ultimately week’s second Republican presidential nomination debate, the marketing campaign touted that the “announcement of DeSantis’ narrative-defying third quarter comes as he enters October firmly on offense.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis smiles in the course of the debate on the Reagan Library in California, on Sept. 27, 2023. (Frederic J. Brown/Getty Photographs)
In addition they highlighted that DeSantis has unveiled “three new forward-looking insurance policies” on the financial system, religion and vitality, and that the governor has “campaigned at break-neck tempo.”
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The marketing campaign famous that DeSantis can have made stops in 74 of Iowa’s 99 counties come Monday.
However the $15 million haul the previous three months is lower than the $20 million raised by DeSantis in the course of the second quarter of fundraising. And far of the cash introduced in in the course of the third quarter are common election funds, that means they can not be spent in the course of the upcoming Republican presidential primaries.
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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based mostly in New Hampshire.
