- leaked audio An article on FloridaPolitics.com reveals donors’ concerns about DeSantis’ abortion ban.
- The DeSantis campaign shared points with fundraisers on how to discuss the issue.
- They predicted a recession, saying it wasn’t as important to voters as Mr. Biden’s age.
The DeSantis 2024 campaign expects electorate voters to be more concerned with the economic turmoil and the age of President Joe Biden during the general election than with the issue of abortion rights, DeSantis has obtained. According to leaked audio. FloridaPolitics.com.
The admission will shed light on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ election strategy as he launches his early voting tour next week. DeSantis will be 45 when elected, while Biden will be just under 82.
“If you are a voter in 2024, likely in a historic recession, choose between the young candidate Ron DeSantis or the 80-something candidate and make abortion the top two issues. If you vote as one of those, our data suggests that person has a very high correlation with typical Democratic voting behavior.” Ryan Tyson, a pollster for the DeSantis campaign, said:.
He made the comments during a presentation by DeSantis campaign aides who shared issues and polls with Bandlers (a term used in politics for people seeking large donations). The Bandlers gathered at a Four Seasons in Miami and made two days of phone calls.
Two Bandlers expressed concern about how they talk about abortion rights when soliciting donations for the campaign. One said he called donors whose “daughters and wives were upset”, while others liked DeSantis “when he was more middle-of-the-road” but didn’t go too far to the right. He said he had been calling donors who were worried about it. The donor said he saw other people in the same room reacting similarly.
Tyson warned that Democrats would campaign on abortion “regardless of position.” He argued that anti-abortion was just “a killer move for a pissing candidate.” As proof, he cited Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, who signed the six-week abortion ban and still steadfastly defeated Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams.
“What the 2022 general election has shown is that a good candidate can make it through the election,” Tyson said, but before the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, Kemp was elected. He did not mention that he signed the bill.
Still, there are some signs that DeSantis’ anti-abortion track record is seen as a vulnerability. DeSantis signed a near-total abortion bill last month without a public ceremony just before midnight, pressuring former President Donald Trump to say whether he would sign the bill into law. The law, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, will take effect if the state Supreme Court upholds the 15-week abortion ban bill DeSantis signed into law last year.
On Monday night, DeSantis defended the six-week law as “the right thing to do,” referring to the period during which the fetus is having heart activity during pregnancy and “protecting fetuses whose heartbeats are detectable.” said it intended to
But when Fox News’ Trey Gordy asked about his anti-abortion stance as president, DeSantis suggested it should be decided by state legislatures. Tyson stressed the response at the donor meeting, but anti-abortion critics criticized Trump’s remarks. The Washington Post reported He said he told his advisers in private that abortion rights should be determined by the state.
“There are ways the federal government can save lives, but the best way to protect abortion is at the state level,” Tyson said. “If the federal government begins to get involved in abortion, it would actually open the door for Democrats to roll back pro-life reform in many states across the country.”
Tyson said voters who favored “centrist” politicians belonged to the 2024 candidates, former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. Voters want people who are “thoughtful” and “sensitive,” he said in a singing voice.
“They just don’t have the math,” Tyson concluded, which means that the majority of Republican primary voters are more conservative. “To be a general, you have to win the primary,” he added when asked by donors for his point. Towards the end of the conversation, however, he admitted, “I fully understand how difficult it is to talk to someone who is in favor of a selected donor.”
Whether the strict ban is a general election or the president’s primary killer is an open question, but Turned out to have hurt Congressional Republicans During the 2022 midterm elections.
In addition to the gist of the story, someone in the room that the insider couldn’t identify from the voice falsely stated that “abortion happens with Plan B,” asking donors to point out that most people have access to contraception. urged. Plan B is a preventative form of birth control known as “emergency contraception” and does not cause abortion.
“If you’re talking to voters who support the choice, I don’t think you’ll ignore it,” he said. “I have to point out that this is a huge step forward for the Republican Party in terms of moving to the centrist side on abortion.” , but it is unclear to what extent DeSantis’ team has come to view the six-week ban as a middle ground.
