{"id":1993596,"date":"2023-08-07T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-desantis-biggest-donors-gives-ron-the-bad-news-the-plug-will-soon-be-pulled\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:41:34","slug":"one-of-desantis-biggest-donors-gives-ron-the-bad-news-the-plug-will-soon-be-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-desantis-biggest-donors-gives-ron-the-bad-news-the-plug-will-soon-be-pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Major DeSantis donor delivers grim message: Plug to be pulled soon."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fone-of-desantis-biggest-donors-gives-ron-the-bad-news-the-plug-will-soon-be-pulled%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=1993596&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>One of\u200b DeSantis&#8217; Biggest Donors Gives Ron the Bad \u200dNews: The Plug Will Soon Be Pulled<\/h2>\n<p>The largest individual donor to \u200cFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 presidential campaign effort has said he will stop donating to DeSantis unless changes are made to the campaign, according to a report by Reuters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe does need to shift to \u2063get to moderates. He\u2019ll lose \u2063if he\u2063 doesn\u2019t. \u2026 Extremism isn\u2019t going to get you elected,\u201d Bigelow said, before adding\u2063 that he wouldn\u2019t donate more money \u201cuntil I see that he\u2019s\u2063 able to \u2062generate\u2062 more on \u2064his own. I\u2019m already too big a percentage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Bigelow, a multimillionaire and \u2064owner of the Budget Suites of America, has donated over $20 million to the Never Back Down PAC, the principal super PAC supporting DeSantis\u2019 campaign \u2014 accounting for two-thirds of the PAC\u2019s fundraising in the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Bigelow said that he would stop funding DeSantis\u2019 campaign until it exhibited a more moderate policy platform, according to comments made \u2063to Reuters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bigelow had previously contributed $10 million\u200d to DeSantis\u2019 Florida gubernatorial re-election campaign in 2022, which at the time exceeded the sum of all donations he had \u2062received, NBC News reported. Bigelow once said he would \u201cwill give him more money and go without food,\u201d to support DeSantis, according to Time Magazine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In objecting to DeSantis\u2019 campaign, Bigelow said he opposed Florida\u2019s enactment of a \u201cheartbeat\u201d abortion law in April,\u2064 which bans the aborting of pregnancies in the state after a fetal\u2064 heartbeat is detected, usually after six weeks of pregnancy. Bigelow said \u2062that\u2064 the threshold was too early\u200c and prohibited abortions \u2063even\u2063 before\u2064 many women know they are pregnant, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Bigelow told Reuters that DeSantis remains the \u201cbest guy for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another large \u2063donor, Andy Sabin, who owns a metals manufacturing company,\u2064 announced in May that he would cease supporting DeSantis\u2019 campaign over abortion issues. \u201cI don\u2019t think\u200c he can win a\u200c national \u200belection with his viewpoint \u200con abortion,\u201d Sabin told Reuters in a separate interview.<\/p>\n<p>Many conservative and religious \u200cgroups \u2014 such as Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Concerned \u2064Women for \u200dAmerica, and the Catholic Church \u2014 oppose all abortions and have pressed DeSantis\u2019 campaign to take more \u2063anti-abortion positions. DeSantis has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-desantis-biggest-donors-gives-ron-the-bad-news-the-plug-will-soon-be-pulled\/\" title=\"Major DeSantis donor delivers grim message: Plug to be pulled soon.\">made socially conservative \u2063policies<\/a> regarding gender, education, and abortion the central theme of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect of Bigelow\u2019s criticism was the declining interest of donors\u2063 in supporting his candidacy. Several billionaire GOP donors \u200b\u2014 such\u2063 as hedge fund manager Ken Griffin and investor Jeffrey Yass \u2063\u2014 have withdrawn their support for \u200cDeSantis over his conservative\u2063 policies, according to Politico, while other billionaires such as Blackstone founder Steve Schwartzman have declined to support him.<\/p>\n<p>Bigelow\u200c said he had conveyed his concerns to DeSantis\u2019 campaign manager, Generra Peck. \u201cThere was a long \u2063period of silence \u200cwhere I thought maybe she had passed out,\u201d he said.\u200c \u201cBut I think she took it all in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis currently has 15.7 percent support nationwide\u200c in the Republican presidential primary, according to \u200cRealClearPolitics. Former President Donald Trump has 53.7 percent support.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 presidential campaign and the Never Back Down PAC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content\u200b created\u200c by the Daily\u200d Caller News\u200d Foundation, an \u2064independent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-weighs-in-on-deadly-subway-clash-after-desantis-calls-marine-a-good-samaritan\/\" title=\"Trump Weighs In on Deadly Subway Clash After DeSantis Calls Marine a 'Good Samaritan'\">nonpartisan newswire service<\/a>, is available without charge \u200cto any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must \u2064include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions \u2062about our \u2063guidelines or partnering with us, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/one-desantis-biggest-donors-gives-ron-bad-news-plug-will-soon-pulled\/\">One of DeSantis&#8217; Biggest Donors Gives Ron the Bad News: The Plug Will Soon Be Pulled<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217; top donor, Robert Bigelow, threatens to halt contributions unless campaign adjustments are implemented. Bigelow, owner of Budget Suites of America and a multimillionaire, has generously given over $20 million to the Never Back Down campaign, as per Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2073,"featured_media":1993597,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1993596","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\/2073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}