I agree money for Trump could well become an issue at some point. But he got pretty far in 2016 before big outside money kicked in (can't recall when that happened).elonmuskrockefeller wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 12:41 pm Again, I'd like to pay you a compliment. I think you have some of the best posts here, not partisan nor exaggerated, but very thoughtful. Your posts make me think and rethink my own thoughts, and that's appreciated.
I do think Trump will announce on the 15th. But I am not sold he can get funding any longer; you don't go far in politics without money. He's got enough today to last a while, just not two years. I'd like to see the GOP pull its support for his legal fees. He's burning close to $25 million every month right now for 11 different suits. If it goes personally criminal, no lawyer in their right mind will take the case without a massive retainer.
His upcoming announcement will obviously starve the room of oxygen at least for a few months, but I think he's miscalculating. It's way too soon. He will need massive $$ for a two year runway. Desantis has the luxury now of his own massive war chest with much more to come, as well as not having any need to entangle with national politics.
If Trump ran third party, he seals his fate...democrats win and he spends at least four more years under the DOJ gun. The GOP needs to pull funding, today.
I'm not so sure Trump would fare much better under a DeSantis DOJ. For one thing, the cases will be pretty far advanced by Jan. 2025 which could make them tougher to drop. For another, and this depends on how the relationship between the two of them has gone, DeSantis may want Trump prosecuted and jailed. And lastly it wouldn't surprise me if public sentiment by then favors prosecuting Trump.