{"id":127321,"date":"2024-03-16T03:59:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T03:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=127321"},"modified":"2024-03-16T03:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T03:59:42","slug":"the-desantis-2028-shadow-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=127321","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The DeSantis 2028 Shadow Campaign&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.thebulwark.com\/p\/ron-desantis-2028-shadow-presidential-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bulwark<\/a>: &#8220;But he hasn\u2019t really stopped running for president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next month, DeSantis hosts a two-day presidential-donor gathering at the Hard Rock Hotel in South Florida that\u2019s billed as\u2014don\u2019t call it a \u201cfundraiser\u201d\u2014an \u201cInvestor Appreciation Retreat.\u201d It\u2019s the latest phase of an image makeover DeSantis started after he officially dropped out of the 2024 race on January 21 and endorsed Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past month, DeSantis has hosted one-on-one thank-you calls with donors, small meetings with more of these \u201cinvestors\u201d in Naples and in Miami, and conference calls with former volunteers&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming from a politician who isn\u2019t known for introspection or personal accountability, this admission of error was the clearest sign yet that DeSantis is already laying the groundwork for 2028.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulwark: &#8220;But he hasn\u2019t really stopped running for president. Next month, DeSantis hosts a two-day presidential-donor gathering at the Hard Rock Hotel in South Florida that\u2019s billed as\u2014don\u2019t call it a \u201cfundraiser\u201d\u2014an \u201cInvestor Appreciation Retreat.\u201d It\u2019s the latest phase of an image makeover DeSantis started after he officially dropped out of the 2024 race&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127322,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127321\/revisions\/127322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}