{"id":1928038,"date":"2023-05-10T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-loyalist-joins-pro-desantis-super-pac\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:29:25","slug":"former-trump-loyalist-joins-pro-desantis-super-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-loyalist-joins-pro-desantis-super-pac\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Trump supporter joins Pro-DeSantis Super PAC."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-trump-loyalist-joins-pro-desantis-super-pac%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1928038&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Trump Adviser Steve Cortes Backs Ron DeSantis for 2024 Presidential Race<\/h2>\n<p>Steve Cortes, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-adviser-lott-trump-votes-subtracted-biden-votes-inflated\/\" title=\"DOJ Adviser Lott: Trump votes subtracted, Biden votes inflated\">senior adviser<\/a> to former President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-finally-discovers-china-uses-u-s-media-to-attack-the-united-states\/\" title=\"CNN Finally Discovers China Uses U.S. Media To Attack The United States\">2020 presidential campaigns<\/a>, has announced his support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\/\" title=\"BREAKING: DeSantis Beats Trump In 2024 Straw Poll At Top Conservative Summit\">2024 presidential race<\/a>. Cortes made the announcement during an interview on Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cVarney &#038; Co.\u201d with Stuart Varney.<\/p>\n<h3>Former Trump Officials Switch Teams<\/h3>\n<p>Cortes\u2019 decision to back the Florida governor comes as several former senior Trump campaign and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-big-here-we-go-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings-biden-team-unaware-of-directive\/\" title=\"BREAKING BIG: Here We Go \u2014 Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings \u2014 Biden Team Unaware of Directive\">administration officials<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-loyalist-joins-pro-desantis-super-pac\/\" title=\"Ex-Trump supporter joins Pro-DeSantis Super PAC.\">switched teams ahead<\/a> of DeSantis\u2019 expected campaign, including Matt Wolking, Erin Perrine, and Ken Cuccinelli.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Cortes is Backing DeSantis<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhen I look at the situation now and going forward, I believe the best option to both win the general election and to govern effectively, to implement a conservative agenda in office, I believe the best option is Ron DeSantis,\u201d Cortes said. He also noted that the idea of a rematch between Biden and Trump is not something the country wants, with 70% of Americans not wanting Biden to run again.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis\u2019 Winning Record<\/h3>\n<p>Cortes pointed out that while Trump is currently leading in the national GOP primary polls, it is still early and \u201ca lot can change.\u201d He noted that the GOP has been on a national losing streak since 2018, but DeSantis had bucked the trend, winning re-election last year by nearly 20 percentage points. \u201cIt was Ron DeSantis who took what was a swing state and he turned it into a plus-20-point smashing landslide, and he did it largely by winning over constituencies the Republicans have had trouble with previously,\u201d Cortes said.<\/p>\n<h3>WATCH:<\/h3>\n<p>Former Senior Trump Campaign adviser Steve Cortes: \u201cI am backing Governor Ron DeSantis for president and just joined his PAC, his aligned PAC, Never Back Down. \u2026 I believe the best option to both win the general election and to govern effectively, to implement a conservative\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/05\/10\/former-trump-adviser-steve-cortes-backs-ron-desantis-for-2024-presidential-race\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cortes, a former senior adviser to former President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, announced on Tuesday that he is backing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the 2024 presidential race. Cortes\u2019 decision to back the Florida governor comes as several former senior Trump campaign and administration officials have switched teams ahead of DeSantis\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1928039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5930,4454,7409,22577,4783,5557],"class_list":["post-1928038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-ex-trump","tag-joins","tag-pac","tag-pro-desantis","tag-super","tag-supporter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}