{"id":1938551,"date":"2023-05-26T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T11:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-campaign-claims-it-raised-8-2-million-within-the-first-24-hours-of-campaign-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T11:22:45","slug":"desantis-campaign-claims-it-raised-8-2-million-within-the-first-24-hours-of-campaign-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-campaign-claims-it-raised-8-2-million-within-the-first-24-hours-of-campaign-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis campaign raises $8.2M in 24 hours."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fdesantis-campaign-claims-it-raised-8-2-million-within-the-first-24-hours-of-campaign-launch%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=1938551&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>Governor Ron DeSantis Raises $8.2 Million in First 24 Hours of Presidential Campaign<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">G<\/span>ov. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis&#8217;s<\/a> (R-FL) presidential campaign claimed it raised $8.2 million in the first 24 hours <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/ron-desantis-video-run-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after its launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The total was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/25\/us\/desantis-fundraising-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by<\/a> the <i>New York Times<\/i> and was confirmed by the DeSantis campaign to the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. It includes online donations and those collected through &#8220;Ron-O-Rama,&#8221; a meeting of major Republican donors at the Four Seasons in Miami. The total beats that of President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>, who raised $6.3 million within 24 hours of announcing his candidacy in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is also on track to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-joe-biden-used-taxpayer-money-to-buy-young-voters-in-the-midterms\/\" title=\"How Joe Biden Used Taxpayer Money To Buy Young Voters In the Midterms\">early figures<\/a> of his primary Republican rival, former President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who raised $9.5 million in his first six weeks after announcing his candidacy, though his announcement came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-free-press-at-all-6-ways-the-biden-administration-controls-your-news\/\" title=\"\u2018Not A Free Press At All\u2019: 6 Ways The Biden Administration Controls Your News\">unusually early<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Pro-DeSantis Super PAC Aiming for $200 Million Budget<\/h3>\n<p>The pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">aiming<\/a> for a budget of $200 million, the <i>New York Times<\/i> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/24\/us\/politics\/ron-desantis-2024-super-pac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Of this, $100 million is designated to go toward 2,600 field organizers to knock on the door of every possible DeSantis voter in New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina no less than four times and no less than five times in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>One of those fundraising for DeSantis on Thursday was former Republican Rep. Lou Barletta, a former Trump ally who claimed he spent almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-campaign-claims-it-raised-8-2-million-within-the-first-24-hours-of-campaign-launch\/\" title=\"DeSantis campaign raises .2M in 24 hours.\">7 1\/2 straight hours making calls<\/a> to likely donors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was so much enthusiasm in that room,\u201d he said. \u201cI had very, very few people say no to me on those calls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis allies are hoping that the advantage in fundraising will help the Florida governor close the ever-increasing gap between him and Trump. A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fox_May-19-22-2023_National_Topline_May-24-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News poll<\/a> taken May 19-22 had Trump with a lead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-poll-trump-would-beat-biden-if-election-held-today\/\" title=\"Harvard Poll: Trump Would Beat Biden if Election Held Today\">33 percentage points<\/a> over DeSantis.<\/p>\n<h3>Fitch Threatens to Downgrade US&#8217;s &#8216;AAA&#8217; Credit Rating Over Debt Ceiling Standoff<\/h3>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/fitch-aaa-credit-rating-debt-ceiling-standoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FITCH THREATENS TO DOWNGRADE US&#8217;S &#8216;AAA&#8217; CREDIT RATING OVER DEBT CEILING STANDOFF<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Click <b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/b> for more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s Turnberry Isle Resort. Ron DeSantis&#8217;s presidential campaign raised $8.2 million in the first 24 hours after its launch, including online donations and those collected through &#8220;Ron-O-Rama,&#8221; a meeting of major Republican donors at Florida&#8217;s Turnberry Isle Resort. The total was reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the DeSantis campaign to the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1938552,"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":[538],"tags":[27675,4087,4980,6389,4224],"class_list":["post-1938551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-8-2m","tag-campaign","tag-desantis","tag-hours","tag-raises"],"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\/1938551","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}