Posted on 10/10/2023 12:34:52 PM PDT by conservative98
Steve Cortes joined the pro-DeSantis effort in May, but bailed out just months later.
A spokesman for a super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis has left the official position, though he’s still backing the Florida Governor’s 2024 presidential bid.
As first reported by Maggie Haberman, Never Back Down spokesman Steve Cortes has moved on from the political action committee, with which he linked up back in May.
In an op-ed published by Newsweek, Cortes called DeSantis “the best possible option to win the presidency in 2024 and to govern as a highly capable, patriotic populist leader.”
His most memorable moment may have been a Twitter space earlier this year where he praised the Donald Trump campaign and suggested DeSantis was way behind the former President.
“To that point of the Primaries too, because I think this is important. Look, right now in national polling, we are way behind. I’ll be the first to admit that. OK?” Cortes said in July. “It’s an uphill battle. I don’t think it’s an unwinnable battle by any stretch, OK? But clearly Donald Trump is the runaway front-runner, particularly since the indictments.”
Cortes said the campaign was “down double digits” with “work to do” and “wood to chop.” In the three months since, however, the Governor has lost ground in polls, finding himself eclipsed by not just Trump but also Nikki Haley in South Carolina and New Hampshire surveys.
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Cortes is a YUGE loser, for backing the Uniparty loser.
He’s still working for DeSantis; this is a nothing story.
Steve Cortes is disloyal. He deserted President Trump for DeSantis. I don’t trust Cortes. He goes with whomever is paying the most. Unfaithful, disloyal, fake.
“Never Back Down spox backs away from Ron DeSantis presidential campaign”
Sounds like he ‘backed down’, I guess.
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