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By: EFE Posted May 26, 2023, 10:15 am EDT
The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, raised $8.2 million for his campaign ahead of the 2024 Republican primaries in the first 24 hours after the announcement of the candidacy, local media reported this Friday.
The take is a good sign for DeSantis after the bumpy start of his campaign, which was made on Wednesday by Twitter Spaces together with businessman Elon Musk and was surrounded by technical problems, prompting ironic comments from US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
DeSantis, who is running second in the polls by more than 30 points behind Trump, said the $8.2 million is the product of online donations and those raised at an event that took place in Miami on Wednesday and Thursday.
According to CBS, the amount raised by DeSantis in the first 24 hours of the official campaign is greater than that of today’s President Bidenwho on his first day as a candidate for the 2020 elections raised $6.3 million dollars.
“The governor DeSantis has built the strongest and most sophisticated organization of US political history,” DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck said.
Peck said in a statement that the amount raised for the campaign will be “critical to impact states with earlier nominations.”
The aforementioned outlet indicated that the DeSantis campaign announced on Wednesday that had raised $1 million dollars in donations within the first hour of launch.
Two sources said, as the donor meeting began, that the campaign expected to raise between $8 and $10 million in pledges within the first 24 hours after your ad offer.
Precisely, DeSantis will make his first official campaign tour next weekwhich includes stops in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, early voting states.
With DeSantis, six Republicans have registered so far for the primaries in which Democrat Joe Biden’s rival will be chosen in the 2024 elections.
In addition to Trump and DeSantis, the former US ambassador to the UN competes nikki haleythe former governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinsonbusinessman Vivek Ramaswamy and African-American Senator Tim Scott.
The Florida governor, who the same day he announced his campaign signed a law that allows him to continue in the governorship as a candidatededicated himself on Thursday to visiting a series of news media to present his program, which he has called “El Regreso”.
In one of those interviews he announced that if he gets to the White House, is going to focus on “disciplining” the bureaucracy in Washington from day one and “immediately” appoint a new FBI director.
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