{"id":1991599,"date":"2023-08-04T23:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantiss-biggest-donor-threatens-to-cut-off-funds-unless-campaign-has-moderate-shift\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T23:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T03:25:12","slug":"desantiss-biggest-donor-threatens-to-cut-off-funds-unless-campaign-has-moderate-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantiss-biggest-donor-threatens-to-cut-off-funds-unless-campaign-has-moderate-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Top donor to DeSantis threatens to withdraw funds unless campaign adopts &#8216;moderate shift&#8217;."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdesantiss-biggest-donor-threatens-to-cut-off-funds-unless-campaign-has-moderate-shift%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=1991599&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>The\u2064 Biggest Donor of Gov.\u200d Ron DeSantis&#8217;s Presidential\u2063 Campaign Demands \u200ca &#8220;Moderate Shift&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-busting-firm-backs-labor-darling-conor-lamb\/\" title=\"Union-Busting Firm Backs Labor Darling Conor Lamb\">biggest individual donor<\/a> \u2062of Gov.\u200b Ron DeSantis&#8217;s (R-FL) \u200cpresidential campaign will hold off on sending\u200c any more money his way \u2062unless\u200d a \u201cmoderate shift\u201d occurs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Bigelow, the\u2063 founder of Budget \u200cSuites of America and Bigelow Aerospace, made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflixs-reed-hastings-gives-3-million-to-a-fund-opposing-newsom-recall\/\" title=\"Netflix\u2019s Reed Hastings Gives  Million To A Fund Opposing Newsom Recall\">largest single contribution<\/a> of $20 million to DeSantis\u2019s super PAC, Never Back Down. Now,\u2062 Bigelow says he won&#8217;t donate another\u2063 dollar \u200duntil\u2064 the conservative governor is\u200b \u201cable to generate\u200b more on his own,\u201d the hotel entrepreneur told Reuters in an interview Friday.<\/p>\n<h3>Donald Trump Indicted: Jack Smith Locked Eyes with \u200dFormer President During Historic Arraignment<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHe does need to shift\u200d to get to\u2063 moderates,\u201d Bigelow said. \u201cHe\u2019ll lose if he doesn\u2019t. \u2026 Extremism isn\u2019t going \u200cto get you elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bigelow cited one of DeSantis\u2019s most\u2063 extreme policies when asked which ones he took an issue\u200b with: Florida\u2019s six<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vogue-magazine-help-freezing-texans-by-paying-for-their-travel-to-get-an-abortion\/\" title=\"Vogue Magazine: Help Freezing Texans By Paying For Their Travel To Get An Abortion\">-week abortion ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis signed into law \u200din April a bill approved by the\u2062 Republican-dominated Florida legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of\u200b pregnancy. The law is among the most \u200crestrictive in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Bigelow had\u200d donated the $20\u2064 million to DeSantis\u2019s campaign before the law \u2063was signed and \u200dsaid he believes six weeks\u2063 is too early \u200cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sasse-reintroduces-infant-protection-bill\/\" title=\"Sasse Reintroduces Infant Protection Bill\">ban abortion<\/a>, as most women are unaware\u2062 they\u200c are pregnant at that stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of his donors are still \u200bon the\u2062 fence,&#8221; Bigelow said, noting \u200cthat he\u200b was \u201calready too\u200b big a percentage\u201d of DeSantis\u2019s \u2062fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>He told \u200dReuters that he\u2063 agrees with most of DeSantis\u2019s policies, like his anti-woke narrative,\u200c and ultimately still thinks he is \u201cthe best \u200cguy for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO\u200d READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The loss of a major GOP \u2064donor is\u2064 the latest\u200d blow to DeSantis\u2019s campaign, which had high hopes\u2062 among Republicans but \u2062has been \u2062underperforming \u2064in \u200dthe polls recently. His team has opted for\u2062 a reset to \u2062try to \u2062keep the national spotlight on him, pushing \u200bfor more voter engagement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantiss-biggest-donor-threatens-to-cut-off-funds-unless-campaign-has-moderate-shift\/\" title=\"Top donor to DeSantis threatens to withdraw funds unless campaign adopts 'moderate shift'.\">key\u2064 early\u2062 voting states<\/a> and slashing more than a third of his campaign\u2063 staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner \u2062contacted DeSantis\u2019s campaign and Never\u2063 Back Down for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top donor to Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217;s (R-FL) presidential campaign, Robert Bigelow, will halt further contributions unless a &#8220;moderate shift&#8221; takes place. Bigelow, founder of Budget Suites of America and Bigelow Aerospace, previously donated $20 million to DeSantis&#8217;s super PAC, Never Back Down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991600,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1991599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1991599","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=1991599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}