Posted on 12/13/2023 2:50:45 PM PST by SoConPubbie
There have been reports of infighting within Never Back Down and tensions between the PAC, which has spent $43 million on ads this year, and the campaign as DeSantis has failed to make any dent at all in Trump’s lead since the governor’s May launch.
A September post in Vanity Fair details how Never Back Down’s chief Jeff Roe and the DeSantis campaign have continued to exchange blame for DeSantis’s lackluster performance in the GOP primary race:
Sources say Roe was frustrated that DeSantis waited until early August to replace campaign manager Generra Peck. Peck is a talented operative who gained DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis’s support for having overseen the governor’s decisive 2022 reelection campaign. But she had never worked at the presidential level, and a source says Roe blamed her for overspending too early in the race. Peck declined to comment.
Vanity Fair also cited sources which asserted that Roe was frustrated that DeSantis relies on his wife Casey DeSantis too much as a political advisor, although he denied that.
“That is absolute flat bullshit,” Roe told Vanity Fair. “Even if I thought it, I wouldn’t say it. And I don’t think it.”
Regardless, there are rising concerns about the coordination between the PAC and the DeSantis campaign, as detailed in the Associated Press, which cited sources who said both DeSantis and his wife had “expressed concerns about the messaging of Never Back Down, the largest super PAC supporting the governor’s campaign, in recent months as his
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Shortly after, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt resigned as chair of the organization, as did communications director Erin Perrine and director of operations Matt Palmisano. Kristin Davison was reportedly fired as interim CEO for the PAC as well.
The drama within the organization comes as the DeSantis campaign looks to the newly created PAC Fight Right, which appears to be taking over DeSantis’s television ads while Never Back Down focuses on door-knocking operations, as Breitbart News detailed.
All the while, DeSantis continues to flounder in the polls, sitting in second place in Iowa, third place in South Carolina, and fourth place in New Hampshire, according to RealClearPolitics.
Meatball will cozy up with anyone who will stuff his pockets full of money
And you will believe anything you read if it isn’t bad news about the Rumpster
Get that butthurt bus back to Miami warmed up. Of course after going for a political grand slam but instead getting the hood slammed on his head haven’t seemed to improve his character.
Why do you call Trump the Rumpster?
It's good to see that DC/GOP consultant class are still getting paid. I was afraid after Trump refused their incompetent services they end up homeless.
Ron DeSantis could’ve been DJT’s running mate, with an inside track to 2028.
Instead, he listened to the neo-con Bushies.
Incredible mistake !
Florida Man’s political career is over.
He’s the JEB! of this cycle.
MAGA will never support him for anything ever again.
Because he is a RAT and that is what RATs call Trump.
Because of posters petty name calling such has DeSantis as meatball. I find that very immature so I give that person a little dose of what they enjoy dealing out
How many more bad hires is this bum gonna make?
Makes Biden look good👢👢🤡
Your gonna need a new grift after Iowa.😂
Trump 2024 🇺🇸
My ears were burning…
Meatball 👢👢🤡
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Burn all you want Rump boot licker
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