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Ron DeSantis of Florida and his advisers waved off his sagging poll numbers with the simple fact that he wasn’t yet an actual candidate for president. Allies are complaining about a lack of a coherent message about why Republican voters should choose Mr. DeSantis over former President Donald J. Trump. His Tallahassee-based campaign has begun shedding some of the more than 90 workers it had hired — roughly double the Trump campaign payroll — to cut swelling costs that have included $279,000 at the Four Seasons in Miami. people and showed Mr. DeSantis with lasers coming out of his eyes. The video drew a range of denunciations, with some calling it homophobic and others homoerotic before it was deleted.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Donald J, Trump, — Organizations: Republican, Trump, Republicans, Twitter, Mr Locations: Florida, Tallahassee, Miami

Data from Mr. Clark’s firm shows that Republicans view an attack on Mr. Trump “as an attack on them,” he said. “Almost always means arrest and indictment,” Mr. Trump wrote of the target letter on Truth Social. Mr. Smith’s office already indicted Mr. Trump in federal court in June, saying he had possessed reams of national defense material and obstructed the investigation. In the coming weeks, he faces possible indictment in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in that state. opponents, who are polling double digits behind him, still will not seize this opportunity to denounce his unfit actions.”

Persons: Justin Clark, Trump’s, Trump, ”, “, Mr, Jack Smith, ” Mr, Alyssa Farah Griffin, G.O.P Organizations: National Public Affairs Locations: Georgia

☆ Super PAC Backing Scott Plans $40 Million Ad Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | More About Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A super PAC supporting Senator Tim Scott’s presidential campaign said on Tuesday that it was reserving $40 million in television and digital advertising from the fall through January, the largest sum booked so far for any presidential candidate and a blitz of ads that could reshape the 2024 Republican field. The group, called the Trust in the Mission PAC, or TIM PAC, said the ad buy would cover Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Mr. Scott’s home state — the first three states that will vote in 2024 — as well as national cable channels starting in September. To put the $40 million figure in perspective, that is more money than the super PACs supporting Donald J. Trump and Gov. The coming ad blitz, which follows a previously announced $7.25 million buy, will provide a significant boost for Mr. Scott. In polling, Mr. Scott has not yet broken out of the pack of Republican candidates trailing those two front-runners.

Persons: Tim Scott’s, Donald J, Ron DeSantis, Scott Organizations: Republican, Mission PAC, TIM PAC, Trump, Gov Locations: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, —, Florida

President Biden and his advisers are elevating a new outside group as the leading super PAC to help re-elect him in 2024, making it the top destination for large sums of cash from supportive billionaires and multimillionaires. The blessing of the group, Future Forward, is a changing of the guard in the important world of big-money Democratic politics. Since the 2012 election, a different group, Priorities USA, has been the leading super PAC for Democratic presidential candidates. “In 2020, when they really appeared from nowhere and started placing advertising, the Biden campaign was impressed by the effectiveness of the ads and the overall rigorous testing that had clearly gone into the entire project,” Anita Dunn, a senior White House adviser to Mr. Biden, said of Future Forward. Future Forward has raised $50 million so far this year, the group said.

Persons: Biden, “, ” Anita Dunn, Mr, Harris, ”, Biden’s, Donald J, Trump Organizations: PAC, Democratic, USA, White, Biden, Democratic National Committee

In the super PAC’s filing, those two payments were labeled “event planning and consulting,” according to Federal Election Commission records. Federal rules are generally lax when it comes to requiring that the final destination of money be revealed. Instead, committees must disclose only the first vendor paid. It is rare for the spouse of a potential presidential candidate to be paid directly by a campaign or an outside group affiliated with the candidate. The fee was $125,000, and the second $30,000 payment was for additional services rendered out of the scope of the first contract, the representative said.

Persons: Charles Gantt, ”, Trump Organizations: Commission, PAC, Trump, Make, Inc

Iowa may be the most important state on Donald J. Trump’s early 2024 political calendar, but he hasn’t been making many friends there lately. He lashed out at Iowa’s popular Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, and then his campaign informed one of the state’s politically influential evangelical leaders, Bob Vander Plaats, that the former president would skip a gathering of presidential candidates this week in Des Moines. The back-to-back moves on Monday — which the campaign of Gov. “With Trump’s personality, I feel he thinks he owns Iowa,” said Steve Boender, a board member for the Family Leader, the conservative Christian group organizing the event on Friday that Mr. Trump is skipping. “And I’m not sure he does.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump’s, hasn’t, Kim Reynolds, Bob Vander Plaats, Ron DeSantis, ”, Trump, Steve Boender Organizations: Republican, Gov, Family, Christian Locations: Iowa, Des Moines, Florida

In the months before the 2020 presidential election, Roy W. Bailey, a Dallas businessman, received a stream of text messages from Donald J. Trump’s re-election campaign, asking for money in persistent, almost desperate terms. “Have you forgotten me?” the messages read, Mr. Bailey recalled. “Have you deserted us?”Mr. Bailey was familiar with the Trump campaign: He was the co-chair of its finance committee, helped raise millions for the effort and personally contributed several thousand dollars. “Think about that,” Mr. Bailey said recently about the frequency of the messages and the beseeching tone. “That is how out of control and crazy some of this fund-raising has gotten.”He did, ultimately, desert Mr. Trump: He is now raising money for Gov.

Persons: Roy W, Bailey, Donald J, Trump’s, “, Mr, Trump, ”, Ron DeSantis Organizations: Gov, Republican Party Locations: Dallas, Florida

Ms. Reynolds is said to have tired of Mr. Trump, and she reacted with disbelief to his comment that she owed him her governorship, according to people familiar with her thinking and her response. Before Mr. Trump’s latest visit to Iowa on Friday, a behind-the-scenes standoff played out for days over whether Ms. Reynolds would join him. Ms. Reynolds has said she will make an effort to appear with whomever invites her, but an aide said she had not actually been invited. The relationship with Mr. DeSantis, who has privately courted Ms. Reynolds for many months, has been strikingly different. They banter with a degree of familiarity and friendship that Mr. DeSantis rarely flashes with other politicians.

Persons: Reynolds, Trump, ”, Trump’s, DeSantis, Kim, Ron Organizations: Mr, Biden, America, Republican Party, Trump Locations: Iowa

The political network established by the conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch has raised more than $70 million for political races as it looks to help Republicans move past Donald J. Trump, according to an official with the group. With some of this large sum to start, the network, Americans for Prosperity Action, plans to throw its weight into the G.O.P. The network spent nearly $500 million supporting Republican candidates and conservative policies in the 2020 election cycle alone. Two groups closely affiliated with Charles Koch contributed $50 million of the more than $70 million that has been raised. Mr. Koch is a major shareholder in Koch Industries, which contributed $25 million to Americans for Prosperity Action, according to a preliminary draft of Federal Election Commission filings.

Persons: Charles, David Koch, Donald J, Trump, Charles Koch, Koch, Emily Seidel, ” Organizations: Prosperity, Koch Industries, Republican

Ron DeSantis of Florida are set to hold dueling events on Tuesday in New Hampshire, but from vastly different political positions: one as the dominant front-runner in the state, the other still seeking his footing. Mr. Trump sees the first primary contest in New Hampshire as an early chance to clear the crowded field of rivals. And members of Team DeSantis — some of whom watched from losing sidelines, as Mr. Trump romped through the Granite State in 2016 on his way to the nomination — hope New Hampshire will be the primary that winnows the Republican field to two. “Iowa’s cornfields used to be where campaigns were killed off, and now New Hampshire is where campaigns go to die,” said Jeff Roe, who runs Mr. DeSantis’s super PAC, Never Back Down. Mr. Roe retains agonizing memories from 2016, when he ran the presidential campaign of the last man standing against Mr. Trump: Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

Persons: Donald J, Ron DeSantis, Biden, Trump, DeSantis, cornfields, ”, Jeff Roe, Roe, Ted Cruz Organizations: Trump, Gov, Republican Party, Republican, DeSantis’s, Mr Locations: Florida, New Hampshire, Granite State, Ted Cruz of Texas

☆ As Legal Fees Mount, Trump Steers Donations Into PAC That Has Covered Them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Facing multiple intensifying investigations, former President Donald J. Trump has quietly begun diverting more of the money he is raising away from his 2024 presidential campaign and into a political action committee that he has used to pay his personal legal fees. The change, which went unannounced except in the fine print of his online disclosures, raises fresh questions about how Mr. Trump is paying for his mounting legal bills — which could run into millions of dollars — as he prepares for at least two criminal trials, and whether his PAC, Save America, is facing a financial crunch. When Mr. Trump kicked off his 2024 campaign in November, for every dollar raised online, 99 cents went to his campaign, and a penny went to Save America. But internet archival records show that sometime in February or March, he adjusted that split. Now his campaign’s share has been reduced to 90 percent of donations, and 10 percent goes to Save America.

Persons: Donald J, Trump Organizations: Save Locations: Save America, America

☆ Pence Challenges 2024 Republicans to Embrace 15-Week National Abortion Ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. DeSantis recently signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida that Mr. Trump said some in the anti-abortion movement considered “too harsh.” Both Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Pence have seized on that phrase to criticize the former president. Evangelicals are an especially large voting bloc in two of the early voting states, Iowa and South Carolina. Mr. Trump will headline an evening gala on Saturday. Mr. Trump has repeatedly avoided taking a clear stance on whether he would support a national abortion ban that would curb access to abortion even in Democratic-controlled states. “What I’ll do is negotiate so people are happy,” Mr. Trump said at one point.

Persons: DeSantis, Trump, Pence, Court’s Dobbs, Roe, Dobbs, Tim Scott of, Mr, ” Organizations: and Freedom Coalition, Republican, South Carolina . Seven Republican, Washington Hilton, Democratic, CNN Locations: Florida, Iowa, South Carolina, Tim Scott of South Carolina

☆ For Trump, the Show and the Campaign Must Trudge On
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And by 2021, as investigations began into his efforts to thwart the transfer of power, he had come to see another campaign as a shield against prosecutions. Instead, Mr. Trump’s team tried to create the sense of a man still in power. They included former President Richard Nixon’s son-in-law; a former New York Police Department commissioner whom Mr. Trump pardoned in the final year of his presidency; and a former administration official whom Mr. Trump named as a representative to the National Archives. It was the National Archives that began the winding road that ended with Mr. Trump facing charges alleging that he had defied a subpoena and kept highly classified documents. The agency, which is in charge of preserving presidential records, spent most of 2021 trying to compel Mr. Trump to return boxes of materials that he had taken with him when he left the White House.

Persons: Robert S, Mueller III, Trump’s, Richard Nixon’s, Trump Organizations: New York Police Department, National Archives, Mr, White, Justice Department Locations: Miami, New York, Bedminster, New Jersey

Donald J. Trump will make his first appearance in federal criminal court on Tuesday. For Mr. Trump and his team, there has been a sense of familiarity, even normalcy, in the chaos of facing a 37-count indictment in the classified documents case. After two House impeachments, multiple criminal investigations, the jailing of his business’s former accountant, his former fixer and his former campaign manager, and now two criminal indictments, Mr. Trump knows the drill, and so do his supporters. Until now, the main pro-Trump super PAC, MAGA Inc., has focused heavily on Mr. Trump’s chief Republican rival, Gov. But that messaging has shifted after the indictment, with a new commercial already being shown that pits Mr. Trump directly against Mr. Biden.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, Trump’s, Ron DeSantis Organizations: ”, Republican, Trump, MAGA Inc, Gov, Mr Locations: Florida

The papers Mr. Trump kept included plans for retaliating to a foreign attack and details of American nuclear programs, according to the indictment. Look, look at this.”Several people close to Mr. Trump and his team privately acknowledged the facts in the case were damaging. Mr. Trump’s team is preparing to march forward, claiming he is being victimized. The indictment was filled with information from people who work with him, and Mr. Trump had already been skeptical of some aides who might have revealed certain details to the special counsel, the person said. He was especially focused on a photo of documents spilled out over the storage room floor at Mar-a-Lago, according to another person who spoke with him.

Persons: Trump, ”, Jack Smith Organizations: Republican Locations: Mar

☆ For G.O.P. Rivals, an Unhappy Task: Defend the Man Dominating Them in the Polls
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the topsy-turvy world of 2024 Republican politics, rivals of Donald J. Trump had been bracing for weeks for his second indictment with more dread than any sense of opportunity. They snap to Mr. Trump’s defense, no matter how outrageous the charges are or who is making them — Democrats, the news media, local prosecutors or, now, federal ones. Donations surged after Mr. Trump’s first indictment in Manhattan. Even prominent Republicans eager for the party to cast aside Mr. Trump in 2024 were concerned ahead of the indictment. They have long been exasperated by the immunity of Mr. Trump’s base to almost any attack or argument, swarming to neutralize any perceived political threat almost by habit.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Chris Sununu Organizations: Republican Locations: Manhattan, New Hampshire

Once he was sworn in as president, Mr. Trump reimbursed Mr. Cohen. Rather than publish her account, the tabloid suppressed it in cooperation with Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen, prosecutors say. Legal experts say that Mr. Trump and others appear to be at “substantial risk” of prosecution for violating a number Georgia statutes, including the state’s racketeering law. But if she were to prevail at trial, a judge could impose steep financial penalties on Mr. Trump and restrict his business operations in New York. Ms. James’s investigators questioned Mr. Trump under oath in April, and a trial is scheduled for October.

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Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination keep entering the field, despite the fact that Donald Trump polls consistently as the front-runner and Ron DeSantis has emerged as the clear No. Why do so many lesser-tier Republicans think they have a real shot? Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The Times, offers a guide to the new crop of candidates and discusses their rationale for running.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Shane Goldmacher Organizations: Republican, Republicans, The Times

☆ With Migrant Flights, DeSantis Shows Stoking Outrage Is the Point
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For Mr. DeSantis, the flights illustrate the broader bet he has made that the animating energy in the Republican Party today has shifted from conservatism to confrontationalism. Mr. DeSantis has used this playbook before. He ordered up flights from the Texas border last year to the symbolically liberal hamlet of Martha’s Vineyard, a stunt that drew exactly the outrage he sought. Those flights are now a staple of his stump speech, usually to cheers from the crowd. His allies in the Florida Legislature earmarked $12 million of taxpayer money into the state budget this year for just this purpose.

Persons: Ron DeSantis’s, Gavin Newsom, DeSantis’s, Donald J, DeSantis Organizations: Democratic, Republican, Trump, Republican Party Locations: Mexico, California, Florida, Texas, Martha’s

☆ For Christie, Winning Would Be Great. Beating Trump Would Be a Close Second.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Chris Christie is embarking on a mission that even some of his fiercest allies must squint to see ending in the White House. But Mr. Christie, the former governor of New Jersey who is now 60 and more than five years removed from holding elected office, has been undeterred, talking up an undertaking that he frames as almost as important as winning the presidency: extricating the Republican Party from the grip of Donald J. Trump. “You need to think about who’s got the skill to do that and who’s got the guts to do it because it’s not going to end nicely no matter what,” Mr. Christie said in March at the same New Hampshire college where he plans to announce his long-shot bid on Tuesday. “His end,” he said of the former president, “will not be a calm and quiet conclusion.”As he enters the race, Mr. Christie has cast himself as the one candidate unafraid to give voice to the frustrations of Republicans who have watched Mr. Trump transform the party and have had enough — either of the ideological direction or the years of compounding electoral losses.

Persons: Chris Christie, Christie, extricating, Donald J, who’s, it’s, Mr, “, ”, Trump Organizations: Republican Party, Trump Locations: New Jersey, Hampshire

☆ DeSantis Relied Heavily on Big Donors in Initial Money Haul
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Tim Tagaris, a Democratic digital strategist who oversaw the Sanders fund-raising operation in 2020, called the number of DeSantis donors surprisingly small. She raised $1.5 million that day — which indicates just how many bigger checks Mr. DeSantis received. The $8.2 million opening total that Mr. DeSantis has claimed remains impressive. That figure was never expected to be a problem for Mr. DeSantis. The DeSantis team made no secret that it was soliciting big money to coincide with his kickoff.

Persons: Tim Tagaris, Sanders, Tagaris, Eric Wilson, ”, Wilson, Kamala Harris, DeSantis, Biden, DeSantis can’t, Trump, Donald J Organizations: Democratic, Republican, Trump, Center for Campaign, PAC, Mr, Republican National Committee Locations: Miami, Florida

☆ In Iowa, DeSantis Signals the Start of a Slugfest With Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the third time in Mr. DeSantis’s three trips to Iowa this year, Mr. Trump planned to follow close behind with a two-day swing of his own. In March, when Mr. DeSantis came for his book tour, Mr. Trump arrived days later in the same city and drew a bigger crowd. It was Mr. DeSantis who one-upped him then, appearing at a barbecue joint nearby. “The weather was so nice that we felt we just had to come,” Mr. DeSantis said to laughs in Clive. Mr. Hamer, who was at the governor’s event in Council Bluffs on Wednesday, said he had voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and 2020 but was now leaning toward Mr. DeSantis.

Persons: Trump, DeSantis, Mr, Clive, Sean Hannity, “ Ron DeSanctimonious, ”, he’s, ” Tim Hamer, Hamer Organizations: Mr, Republican, Fox News, Social Security Locations: Iowa, Florida, Des Moines, Bluffs

Like Mr. DeSantis, Mr. Ramaswamy sells a similar anti-woke sentiment, but he does so with the charm of a natural communicator. Mr. Trump has welcomed the non-DeSantis entrants to the race. And in the days leading up to Mr. Scott’s announcement, Mr. Trump was watching Fox News in his Mar-a-Lago office when he said, “I like him. For Mr. DeSantis, the squeeze was apparent on the day he entered the race. “If he’s just going to be an echo of Trump, people will just vote for Trump,” she said.

☆ With Feinstein Ailing, Newsom’s Vow Looms Over Senate Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Thomas Fuller | Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vowed on national television that if Senator Dianne Feinstein stepped down early, he would appoint a Black woman to replace her. It was a promise that was only theoretical at the time even though questions were already emerging about the fitness of Ms. Feinstein, who turns 90 next month, to serve out her term. But after Ms. Feinstein contracted shingles earlier this year, was homebound and then returned to Washington frailer than ever, the contingency plan has become far more pressing — and more politically complicated. Now, if a vacancy comes, Mr. Newsom would have to decide whether to elevate Ms. Lee over her white rivals or find a caretaker who would agree not to seek a full term in 2024, presuming he keeps his pledge.

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