{"id":134904,"date":"2023-11-08T19:28:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfintale.com\/?p=134904"},"modified":"2023-11-08T19:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:28:55","slug":"desantis-biggest-donor-bigelow-switches-to-trump-but-not-donating-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfintale.com\/markets\/desantis-biggest-donor-bigelow-switches-to-trump-but-not-donating-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis' biggest donor Bigelow switches to Trump, but not donating for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) – Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis\u2019 biggest donor, is switching his support to Donald Trump, but he will not give the former president any money until he is sure he is not headed to prison.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, U.S., October 20, 2023. REUTERS\/Randall Hill\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

\u201cI\u2019m pro-Trump. Right now I\u2019m determined to remain on the sidelines for the time being to see how these prosecutions play out,\u201d Bigelow said in an interview with Reuters. \u201cI have to be sure that he does not have a position where the prosecution has a path to send him to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump is the clear frontrunner in the race to become the Republican presidential nominee in the 2024 election despite facing four criminal and three civil trials, some related to his attempts to overturn his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got to stay out of jail. You can\u2019t run the United States from jail,\u201d said Bigelow, who, like many Republicans, considers the cases politically motivated. The Justice Department has repeatedly dismissed such suggestions.<\/p>\n

Bigelow said he would be open to supporting Trump financially if he was convicted but only received a probationary sentence.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported in August that Bigelow, a major Republican donor who gave $20 million to the pro-DeSantis \u201cNever Back Down\u201d super PAC in March, was not going to donate more money to the Florida governor. Bigelow was incensed by DeSantis\u2019 signing in April of a bill passed by the Florida legislature banning abortions after six weeks.<\/p>\n

The Financial Times was first to report earlier on Wednesday that Bigelow was \u201cconsidering\u201d switching his support to Trump. It did not say, however, whether Bigelow planned to donate to Trump\u2019s White House bid.<\/p>\n

Bigelow\u2019s public endorsement is not likely to affect Trump\u2019s candidacy, nor is his decision not to give him any money, as Trump mostly relies on small donations. But it will give Trump ammunition to needle DeSantis, who is running short of cash and can ill afford to lose major donors like Bigelow.<\/p>\n

Bigelow said he thought Trump would be better equipped than DeSantis to deal with the current turmoil in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

After Bigelow\u2019s interview with Reuters in August about dropping DeSantis, Bigelow said he did not hear from the Florida governor\u2019s campaign for two weeks. Eventually, DeSantis\u2019 wife Casey DeSantis called.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t take her call,\u201d Bigelow said. \u201cI felt it was Ron\u2019s responsibility. It wasn\u2019t his wife\u2019s. I think it\u2019s indicative of not good thinking to ignore a large donor like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s campaign, Bigelow added, had already reached out by Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Desantis\u2019 campaign and Trump\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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