{"id":1998787,"date":"2023-08-12T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-pac-donation-of-95k-gets-him-ad-space-at-religious-forum\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T17:08:19","slug":"desantis-pac-donation-of-95k-gets-him-ad-space-at-religious-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-pac-donation-of-95k-gets-him-ad-space-at-religious-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis PAC&#8217;s $95k donation secures ad space at religious forum."},"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%2Fdesantis-pac-donation-of-95k-gets-him-ad-space-at-religious-forum%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=1998787&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>Gov. Ron DeSantis Pays $95,000 to Engage \u200dwith Conservative Evangelicals<\/h2>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) made \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-defends-mara-gays-disturbing-american-flags-statement-social-media-pounds-them\/\" title=\"NYT Defends Mara Gay\u2019s \u2018Disturbing\u2019 American Flags Statement. Social Media Pounds Them.\">bold move<\/a> last month by attending and advertising at a religious forum in Iowa. The Family \u2062Leadership Summit, a gathering \u2062of\u2062 2,000 conservative evangelicals \u2063on July 14, attracted several GOP candidates vying for the party&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-dismisses-trump-first-amendment-defense-against-jan-6-indictment\/\" title=\"Bill Barr rejects Trump's First Amendment defense for Jan. 6 indictment.\">2024\u200d presidential nomination<\/a>. To secure his presence, the DeSantis campaign, a DeSantis-linked super PAC, and a nonprofit organization supporting him joined forces and paid a \u200dfee of $95,000.<\/p>\n<p>This investment resulted in three pages of \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-pac-donation-of-95k-gets-him-ad-space-at-religious-forum\/\" title=\"DeSantis PAC's k donation secures ad space at religious forum.\">eye-catching \u200cads featured<\/a> \u2062in a booklet distributed at the summit, as well as tickets to\u200c the event, lunch, and an exclusive after-dinner gathering. The opportunity to capture the attention of engaged grassroots activists was deemed invaluable by\u200d FLS CEO Bob\u2064 Vander Plaats, 60, who\u2063 stated\u200d that the fee was \u2064&#8221;not even close to exorbitant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My only regret is that\u2063 we probably should have charged more,&#8221; Vander Plaats added,\u2063 emphasizing the significance of reaching this influential audience.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out \u200cto both FLS and the DeSantis campaign for their comments on this strategic move.<\/p>\n<h3>Where \u2063Trump, \u200cDeSantis, and the Rest of the Republican 2024 Field Stand on Key Issues<\/h3>\n<p>Vander Plaats, known for accurately\u2062 predicting the winners of the Iowa caucus in the past,\u200b endorsed former Arkansas \u200dGov. Mike Huckabee in 2008, former \u200bSen. Rick Santorum in 2012, and Sen. Ted \u2063Cruz (R-TX) in 2016. Iowa, with its \u206228% population of evangelical Protestants, holds \u200bsignificant influence in the political landscape, making it a prime location for engaging with\u200c this demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent\u200b from \u2064the event was former \u200cPresident Donald Trump, whose absence did not go \u2063unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click \u200dhere<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) spent $95,000 to participate and promote at an Iowa religious forum. The Family Leadership Summit attracted 2,000 conservative evangelicals on July 14, including potential GOP candidates for the 2024 presidential nomination. DeSantis&#8217; campaign, a related super PAC, and others were present at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1998788,"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-1998787","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\/1998787","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=1998787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}