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DeSantis Donor Fears & Haley’s MAGA Turn

A candid conversation about the political fundraising questions percolating in the pre-’24 landscape: Will DeSantis eventually alienate the Silicon Valley bigwigs? Will MAGA buy Haley’s act? What’s behind the Larry Ellison-Tim Scott bromance? And can George Santos keep from imploding?

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.aFlordia governor Ron DeSantis, as a matter of rhetoric, has made his presumptive candidacy about the general feeling that the left’s social-justice warriors have gone too far.
Flordia governor Ron DeSantis, as a matter of rhetoric, has made his presumptive candidacy about the general feeling that the left’s social-justice warriors have gone too far. Photo: James Gilbert/Getty Images
Tina Nguyen
February 22, 2023

For years, I have been reporting in real time as Republicans in the post-Trump era crafted a new electoral playbook that marries MAGA culture war hysterics with buttoned-down, Chamber of Commerce conservatism. This isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, of course—recall how Ronald Reagan simultaneously courted evangelical Christians with his “Moral Majority” and tantalized the business crowd by dangling the miracle of supply-side economics and the Laffer curve, etcetera.