{"id":1936772,"date":"2023-05-24T06:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-mega-donor-abandons-trump-desantis-is-a-leader\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:29:48","slug":"republican-mega-donor-abandons-trump-desantis-is-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-mega-donor-abandons-trump-desantis-is-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Big Donor Ditches Trump, Praises DeSantis as a Leader."},"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\">20<\/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%2Frepublican-mega-donor-abandons-trump-desantis-is-a-leader%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=1936772&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 Mega-Donor Backs DeSantis Over Trump for 2024 Presidential Race<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0523\/8a201e51-55e5-4526-b4fd-4f5fbb1ffeb4\/audio.mp3?length=2621421&#038;duration=218\"><\/div>\n<p>A Republican mega-donor has made a surprising announcement regarding the 2024 presidential race. Hal Lambert, who served on Trump\u2019s inaugural committee in 2016, has decided to support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis instead of former President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Lambert believes that DeSantis has a better chance of winning the 2024 race and has pledged to do everything he can to help him win. In an interview with The New York Post, Lambert said, \u201cRon is good at giving a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Why DeSantis?<\/h3>\n<p>Lambert believes that DeSantis is a leader who knows how to govern and not just make headlines. He is impressed with DeSantis\u2019 stance on issues such as border security, energy independence, and school choice. According to Lambert, DeSantis has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-mega-donor-abandons-trump-desantis-is-a-leader\/\" title=\"GOP Big Donor Ditches Trump, Praises DeSantis as a Leader.\">successful conservative record<\/a> in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert is the founder of Texas-based Point Bridge Capital, an investment firm that manages an exchange-traded fund named \u201cMAGA ETF.\u201d The MAGA ETF channels investments into companies that align with Republican political beliefs. The MAGA Index comprises 150 companies from the S&#038;P 500 whose employees and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-threats-of-corporate-donation-withdrawals-gop-senate-fund-hauls-in-8-3-million\/\" title=\"Amid Threats Of Corporate Donation Withdrawals, GOP Senate Fund Hauls In .3 Million\">political action committees<\/a> (PACs) are supportive of Republican candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert decided to support DeSantis after dining with the governor and his wife Casey a few weeks ago. He believes that Florida\u2019s first lady \u201cwill be a real asset.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Why Not Trump?<\/h3>\n<p>Lambert was turned off by Trump\u2019s remarks about the 2020 election during a CNN town hall earlier this month. He believes that Trump will have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-mcconnell-isnt-expecting-the-gop-to-retake-the-senate\/\" title=\"Why McConnell Isn\u2019t Expecting the GOP to Retake the Senate\">difficult time winning<\/a> the general election and that the election will be a referendum on Trump instead of President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ortiz-bidens-disastrous-first-year-drives-voters-into-gop-arms\/\" title=\"Ortiz: Biden's Disastrous First Year Drives Voters into GOP Arms\">bad record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert acknowledged that it\u2019s \u201cgoing to be a battle\u201d for DeSantis to defeat Trump. He believes that DeSantis needs to beat Trump without alienating Trump\u2019s voters. According to Lambert, Trump\u2019s poll numbers will drop once DeSantis officially enters the 2024 race.<\/p>\n<h3>Survey Results<\/h3>\n<p>A survey by Harvard CAPS-Harris that queried 2,004 registered voters from May 17 to May 18 showed that Trump defeated Biden 47 percent to 40 percent in a hypothetical matchup. When Biden faced off against DeSantis, the two were tied with 42 percent of support each.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has not announced his candidacy, but is expected to make his decision known soon.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming months. Apart from Trump, several other major Republican figures are expected to announce their candidacy for the 2024 presidential race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican mega-donor Hal Lambert is backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential race. Lambert, who served on Trump&#8217;s inaugural committee, cited DeSantis&#8217; potential to win as the reason for his decision. &#8220;I&#8217;m in for DeSantis this time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":1936773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[4980,17621,6498,6203,3939,7360,3634],"class_list":["post-1936772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-desantis","tag-ditches","tag-donor","tag-gop","tag-leader","tag-praises","tag-trump"],"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\/1936772","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}