It seems like an inconsequential thing if people don’t like you one on one while you’re running for president.
How important can it be? You primarily speak to the press and shake some hands now and then. Very few will have the opportunity to just sit and talk with you.
But it matters when you’re trying to raise money and are gearing up to challenge a quasi incumbent.
The chief executive of the famed Blackstone Group, Stephen Schwarzman, decided he won’t be supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with his cash.
It signals a campaign that’s rapidly going from bad to worse.
Despite DeSantis’s sinking poll numbers and constant missteps, Schwarzman was stilling willing to give the poor guy a shot, so he scheduled a meeting. Usually, that’s when you close the deal. Just appear polite and smart, what could possibly go wrong?
Schwarzman even told Axios News a week earlier, noting that “it is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries.”
But it’s not going to be DeSantis. Schwarzman is apparently meeting with a number of other Trump challengers.
It would have been a good get for DeSantis. Schwarzman previously advised former president Donald Trump on economic issues.
Ken Griffin and John Catsimatidis, two other GOP billionaire donor bigwigs, are following suit, it appears. They announced they’ll be supporting someone other than Trump but won’t be throwing their weight behind DeSantis.
This comes after another billionaire donor, Thomas Peterffy, announced he’d be backing out after DeSantis signed the six week abortion ban into law. Peterffy was firmly in DeSantis’s camp previously, making the burn especially bad.
There just doesn’t seem to be much magic to DeSantis. Is he a smoke and mirrors figure created by the anti Trump right leaning media? It seems so.
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