{"id":1936385,"date":"2023-05-23T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-megadonor-who-backed-trump-flips-to-desantis-trump-should-drop-out-of-the-race\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T01:58:05","slug":"gop-megadonor-who-backed-trump-flips-to-desantis-trump-should-drop-out-of-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-megadonor-who-backed-trump-flips-to-desantis-trump-should-drop-out-of-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican donor switches support from Trump to DeSantis, urges Trump to withdraw from the race."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fgop-megadonor-who-backed-trump-flips-to-desantis-trump-should-drop-out-of-the-race%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=1936385&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>Republican Megadonor Flips Support From Trump to DeSantis<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A Republican megadonor and one-time supporter of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has flipped to supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for president, saying that he believes the former president should drop out of the race.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hal Lambert, founder and CEO of Point Bridge Capital and creator of MAGA EFT, told Fox Business on Tuesday that he does not believe Trump can win in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he can win the general,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s states that matter, and we all know what those are. It\u2019s going to be things like Nevada and Arizona and Virginia, Wisconsin. I don\u2019t see Trump winning any of those states. And so we can\u2019t win if we don\u2019t win those states.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to move on to the next generation,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd Governor DeSantis is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-megadonor-who-backed-trump-flips-to-desantis-trump-should-drop-out-of-the-race\/\" title=\"Republican donor switches support from Trump to DeSantis, urges Trump to withdraw from the race.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/july-4-1861-lincoln-addresses-a-divided-nation\/\" title=\"July 4, 1861: Lincoln addresses a divided nation\">vision forward<\/a> versus hashing<\/a> out things from the past. I think it would be a moratorium on Biden\u2019s presidency \u2014 or a referendum, I should say, versus a referendum on Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lambert said that voters do not want another nine months of what they saw Trump deliver during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-parliament-declares-chinas-treatment-of-uyghurs-genocide-as-biden-remains-silent\/\" title=\"Canadian Parliament Declares China\u2019s Treatment Of Uyghurs \u2018Genocide\u2019 As Biden Remains Silent\">recent town hall event<\/a> on CNN.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe want what Governor DeSantis offers, which is a vision forward, not looking back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lambert said that he only went public with his support of DeSantis this week and that he\u2019s \u201cgoing to do everything I can to help Governor DeSantis win.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Lambert&#8217;s Reasons for Supporting DeSantis:<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>DeSantis offers a vision forward<\/li>\n<li>Trump cannot win the general election<\/li>\n<li>Voters do not want another nine months of Trump<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s name-calling is getting old<\/li>\n<li>DeSantis brings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sharon-osborne-slams-costars-cbs-piers-morgan-controversy-was-set-up-osborne-used-as-sacrificial-lamb\/\" title=\"Sharon Osborne Slams Costars, CBS: Piers Morgan Controversy Was \u2018Set Up,\u2019 Osborne Used As \u2018Sacrificial Lamb\u2019\">adult conversation<\/a> on real issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to try to help raise as much money as we can raise to help him win the election,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I suspect that Donald Trump has peaked in the polls. So he loves to talk \u2014 talk about the polls. At 52 percent, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s that great in the Republican primary. I mean, he\u2019s the former president, and yet basically half of the party would prefer someone else. And I think those numbers go lower from here going forward. I think DeSantis closes that gap pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-11618\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lambert said that Trump\u2019s name-calling was getting old and that even many of his own supporters do not like it when he attacks DeSantis.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLook, we want to unite the country, and we can\u2019t have name-calling. We have got to move to an adult conversation on real issues. And I think DeSantis brings that to the table. If you look at a DeSantis versus Biden, I mean, it\u2019s a very stark contrast. It\u2019s the next generation moving forward, and I think \u2014 I think that\u2019s what the American people are ultimately going to decide that they want to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t think we want to see a Biden-Trump reelection battle,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I think Donald Trump should drop out of the race, quite frankly. For the better of the country, I think he should drop out of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOP megadonor and ex-backer of Donald Trump now supports Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for president. Hal Lambert, CEO of Point Bridge Capital and MAGA EFT creator, urged Trump to withdraw from the race. 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