Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential aspirations have started ambivalently. On the one hand, the announcement that he was going to carry out on the Twitter Spaces platform was full of technical errors, which led him to receive criticism and ridicule among his political rivals. But he has also managed to raise record funding for his presidential campaign.
And DeSantis’s campaign has managed to raise not only millions of dollars, but the support of former officials and high-profile politicians who previously supported former President Donald Trump.
The Hill news portal compiled the five most important political personalities who previously supported Trump and now support presidential candidate Ron DeSantis.
1- Ken Cuccinelli
According to The Hill, Cuccinelli is a former Trump administration official who served as Homeland Security secretary, and has been one of the high-profile politicians to have voiced support for Ron DeSantis.
“Ron DeSantis doesn’t just talk, he acts and, above all, he never gives up,” Cuccinelli said during a video announcing a super PAC (an acronym in English for political action committee, an organization that seeks to raise funding for certain candidates, as well as to persuade voters during elections).
The PAC also began running ads attacking former President Donald Trump, including one criticizing him for “supporting legislation” on gun control for certain comments he had made about it.
2- Steve Cuts
Known as a senior adviser to Trump during the 2016 and 2010 presidential campaigns, Steve Cortes now supports Governor Ron DeSantis and works for the Never Back Down PAC.
Earlier this month, according to The Hill review, he assured that DeSantis was “the best possible option to win the presidency” in 2024, because, in his opinion, he has discipline and has shown results while avoiding the “chaos” experienced during the administration. of Trump.
3- Chip Roy
Congressman Chip Roy, of Texas and a Republican leaning, became the first representative of the US Congress to endorse Ron DeSantis in the month of March, according to The Hill.
Previously, he had supported Trump in his presidential re-election campaign in 2020, but criticized the former US president for the incident that occurred on January 6, 2021: the assault on the Capitol.
4- Thomas Massie
Republican-leaning Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky supported Donald Trump during the 2020 election, but relations with the former US president appear to have deteriorated subsequently.
Trump, in fact, called for Massie to be expelled from the Republican Party in 2020, after he joined the $2 trillion economic relief package for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, Massie has expressed his support for DeSantis, who, according to The Hill review, has described as a “leader of proven energy” who has fought “for economic freedom, personal freedom, fiscal responsibility and limited government.”
5 – Bob Good
Republican-leaning Congressman Bob Good of Virginia supported Trump during the 2020 election but said recently that DeSantis has “shown strength in the face of adversity.”
In fact, the Never Back Down PAC announced earlier this month that Good declared his endorsement of DeSantis “because he can produce effective results for every man, woman and child.”
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