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Not Trump. Not Biden. Most attacked presidential candidate is DeSantis by far. | Blaze Media
The 2024 presidential race is headlined by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Yet the most attacked presidential candidate in the 2024 election is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – by a wide margin. Despite Trump holding a commanding lead in the polls against DeSantis, the...
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Why? Is he that dangerous for the nation?
Why, oh, why?
DeSantis has been the target of $20.2 million in negative independent expenditures – a quarter of all independent expenditures in the 2024 election cycle, according to the Washington Examiner.
Nearly all of the negative independent expenditures against DeSantis came from the Trump-supporting super PAC Make America Great Again Inc. Just $45,712 came from other groups. The Trump super PAC spent only $3.2 million on attack ads against Biden.
Only $8.1 million of negative independent expenditures was directed toward Trump. Meanwhile, $9.2 million of negative independent expenditures were used against Biden.
DeSantis was also the recipient of $11.2 million in positive independent expenditures – vastly outspending Biden's $1,731,588 and Trump's $850,195.