Billionaire money manager Ken Griffin, who was ready to bankroll Ron DeSantis’s presidential run in 2022, now says he is “on the sidelines” in the GOP race, with the Florida Governor having failed to impress.
“So we’re… now through the first debate, and I’ll tell you what, I’m still on the sidelines as to who to support in this election cycle,” Griffin said.
“I don’t know his strategy,” Griffin blasted about the Florida Governor’s increasingly embarrassing campaign, which has been plagued with staffing issues, overspending, and links to both establishment RINO figures and politically extreme incidents. Recently, his national spokesman Steve Cortes appeared to imply a Trump vs. Biden rematch was “inevitable,” while his own staff are trying to reframe expectations in Iowa, where DeSantis languishes in a distant second despite his PAC spending five times more than Trump’s.
“It’s not clear to me what voter base he is intending to appeal to,” Griffin told CNBC.
“First-term governor – just a phenomenal job,” he said of DeSantis’s record. “But that hasn’t been how this last few months has played out.”
Griffin abandoning the DeSantis camp comes as the Governor is polling at 10 percent nationally and 23 percent in his home state, with Donald Trump far ahead on 57 percent and 59 percent, respectively.
