That’s why I’ve dedicated my entire life to helping COUNTLESS people just like you heal your unhealthy relationship with food. I felt like healing was absolutely IMPOSSIBLE. I’ve also experienced the soul-crushing moments that come with so many failed solutions. Within days of Scott’s victory, he was collecting checks from Tallahassee lobbyists and industry groups he had railed against during the primary campaign.As someone who has struggled with my own addictions, I know the pain, suffering, and alienation you’re feeling. That is what happened in 2010, when first-time candidate Rick Scott spent $50 million of his own money in a Republican primary upset of Attorney General Bill McCollum, the favorite of the Republican establishment for governor.
While DeSantis appears to be the darling of national GOP donors, many Florida Republican activists and businesses now backing Putnam easily could rally around whoever the nominee is heading into the Nov. “DeSantis is the far right billionaire whisperer and he has spent this campaign courting special corporate interests rather than talking to Florida voters,” said Kevin Donohoe, a Florida Democratic Party spokesman. Gwen Graham, former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, Orlando-area businessman Chris King, Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum so far are narrowly dividing the Democratic vote in most polls.ĭemocrats see DeSantis’s tie to Trump as helping them capture Florida centrist voters this fall. 28 primary will face whoever emerges from the crowded Democratic field.
“We don’t want to import Washington dysfunction into the state of Florida,” Putnam said during his own Fox News appearance the day after Trump’s Tampa rally.
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With the national buzz around DeSantis, Putnam has stepped up his TV attacks on his rival as disconnected from Florida issues, and also is turning to grassroots events that heighten his “Florida First” pitch. “It becomes like how the New York Yankees can attract fans, because they’re seen as a winning team,” Gruters said. The primary’s closing weeks are likely to see more money flowing that way, possibly with some Putnam backers looking to crossover, Gruters said. But he said Trump’s is signaling to national donors to send checks DeSantis’ way. Unlike the president, Gruters is remaining neutral in the Republican primary for governor. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, who was co-chair of Trump’s presidential campaign in Florida. “There’s no question Trump’s endorsement helps DeSantis in many ways, including campaign financing,” said state Rep. Even when Trump hinted in December that he supported DeSantis, tweeting he would make a “GREAT Governor of Florida,” Putnam managed to stay on top in many polls.īut that changed dramatically by the time Trump’s June 22 tweet was sent, followed by Tuesday night’s rally in Tampa that drew roughly 10,000 people. Putnam has raised about $36 million for his campaign, more than double DeSantis’s total. Sugar Corp., Walt Disney World, Florida Power & Light, the private-prison Geo Group, and agri-businesses long allied with the Bartow son of a cattle ranching family. Putnam's Florida Grown political action committee has been bankrolled many of the Florida GOP's biggest donors and industry allies, including U.S. Putnam, 44, is the two-term state Agriculture Commissioner, first elected to the Florida House at age 22 and later Congress – a Florida officeholder half his life. Indeed, the 30 Republican donors who the Center for Responsive Politics has named as the top federal contributors to GOP candidates this election cycle have pumped more than $3 million into the DeSantis campaign.īut DeSantis, 39, may need the national help. The same day, Silicon Valley real estate investor Carl Berg cut a $100,000 check and three weeks later Ahmad Khawaja, a controversial online payment processor, sent $10,000, bringing his DeSantis contributions to almost $200,000. Others spending on DeSantis in recent weeks include venture capitalist Joe Childs, whose $100,000 donation June 29 brought to $503,000 his stake in the candidate. Billionaire conservative brothers Charles and David Koch, who Trump is now feuding with over trade policy, still turned to DeSantis after the June 22 tweet, pouring in almost $250,000 last month for digital advertising and mailers for the candidate through their Freedom Partners PAC.
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