How Ron DeSantis’ super PAC is taking financial pressure off his campaign

Nbcnews ^ | Oct 20, 2023 | Alec Hernandez, Bridget Bowman

[backpacker_c]

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis disembarks from the navy and red campaign bus shuttling him around the early states, the fingerprints of his candidacy are everywhere — “DeSantis 2024” emblazoned across one side of the bus in bold white letters, with one of the governor’s signature phrases on the opposite end: “Never Back Down.”

But the bus doesn’t belong to DeSantis or his campaign. It’s DeSantis’ supportive super PAC, Never Back Down, bringing DeSantis around the early states on 11 bus tours, including eight in Iowa alone.

while DeSantis has made at least 82 public appearances in Iowa alone, at least 61 were hosted by Never Back Down,

But the super PAC and the campaign are banned from directly coordinating with each other on certain things, according to federal law,

[backpacker_c]

Article about all the campaign events that neverbackdown has done with desantis, in violation of FEC regulations...

and desantis doesn't care, otherwise he wouldn't be doing them...

If desantis doesn't care about having to follow regulations....

Does anyone think he's going to follow the law with how he treats or governs you?

[frank ballenger]

I don’t hate DeSantis, I just feel sorry for him-—to a point. Statements trashing Trump delight the opposition.

All this money should be spent in a united party effort to elect Donald Trump. IMO

[backpacker_c]

Since it appears that few people have an interest in people running for office following FEC regulations....

Don’t complain when the left creates superpacs and does the same thing desantis is doing, to out spend republican candidates after they see desantis getting away with it....

[conservative98]

Nobody is defending him on this because they know this arrangement is totally illegal and he has opened Pandora’s box.