Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign raised more than $1 million in the 24 hours after the first Republican primary debate, The Post has confirmed.
The 2024 presidential candidate reported a surge in fundraising as one of eight GOP candidates hoping to improve on their performance Wednesday night in Milwaukee and challenge frontrunner and former President Donald Trump.
ABC News first reported on the DeSantis campaign’s post-debate hiring.
“Ron DeSantis showed Wednesday night that he is a proven leader who will deliver results as president, and we are thrilled with the outpouring of support we have received since his debate victory,” said campaign manager James Uthmeier.
“We look forward to building on this momentum in the coming weeks and months as the Governor continues to outdo everyone in this race while laying out his vision to reverse our nation’s decline and restore the American Dream.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign raised more than $1 million in the first 24 hours after the first Republican primary debate.Getty Images
Florida’s governor returned to Iowa on Thursday to hold a rally at the iconic movie “Field of Dreams” in Dyersville.AP
DeSantis, 44, returned to Iowa on Thursday to hold a rally at the iconic “Field of Dreams” in Dyersville, as he plans to visit all 99 counties in the Hawkeye State before the state’s first caucus on Jan. 15. .
Meanwhile, the campaign of surging Republican candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, 38, told The Post it had raised $460,000 on debate night and another $600,000 on Thursday — the largest single-day total.
The campaigns of former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum did not immediately respond to requests for numbers. fundraising.
Rising Republican candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, 39, whose campaign told The Post it raised $460,000 on debate night and another $600,000 on Thursday.REUTERS
Ramaswamy emerged as the best-performing candidate at the debate, with 23% of self-identified GOP voters saying he won the event, according to a Leger poll of 1,800 people commissioned exclusively for The Post.
DeSantis finished second with 21% of Republican voters claiming he was the winner. Only 11% said the same about Pence; 7% from Haley; 6% from Scott; 4% from Christie’s; 4% from Hutchinson; and 1% from Burgum.
Trump, 77, did not appear at the Fiserv Forum, despite leading the nomination contest with 55.4% support, according to the RealClearPolitics national polling average.
Ramaswamy emerged as the best-performing candidate at the debate, with 23% of self-identified GOP voters saying he won the event, according to a poll commissioned for The Post.Getty Images
He was followed in the polling average by DeSantis (14.3%), Ramaswamy (7.2%), Pence (4%), Haley (3.2%), Scott (3.1%), Christie (3%), Hutchinson (0.8%) and Burgum ( 0.6%).
The former president pulled out of the Republican debate and instead sat down for a pre-recorded interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on X, formerly known as Twitter, which took place at the same time as the event.
On Thursday, Trump surrendered to authorities in Atlanta after being charged by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The former president pulled out of the Republican debate and instead aired an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on X.AFP via Getty Images
He became the first president to take a mug shot after being booked and released on $200,000 bond.
The grand jury indictment is the fourth handed down this year against the 45th president, following federal indictments for allegedly trying to reverse his loss to Joe Biden and improperly storing national security documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump was also indicted in Manhattan for allegedly falsifying business records in an attempt to hide “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
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