“Less than two months into Ron DeSantis’ declared run for president, his most important backers in conservative media are already starting to lose faith,” Rolling Stone reports.
“Since the beginning of the Biden presidency, the powerful Murdoch family has favored the Florida governor in the 2024 presidential primary, largely due to a conviction that DeSantis would be a more electable, and less chaotic, evolution from Donald Trump. But in recent weeks, the Murdochs have grown increasingly displeased with the DeSantis campaign’s perceived stumbles, lackluster polling, and inability to swiftly dethrone Trump… They have also seriously questioned whether the governor is capable of defeating Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.”
Said one Fox insider: “They are transactional and can smell a loser a mile away.”
