Posted on 12/04/2023 11:43:03 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Erin Perrine, communications director of the pro-DeSantis PAC Never Back Down, is one of the latest individuals to depart from the organization in recent days, as the DeSantis campaign fails to see momentum as the primaries draw closer.
Chris Jankowski, the chief executive of the super PAC, led the charge last month, standing as the first major departure from the organization, asserting that the “current environment it has become untenable for me to deliver on the shared goal and that goes well beyond a difference of strategic opinion.”
Kristin Davison stepped in to fill his position, but the interim CEO was fired just nine days into the job, signaling further chaos within the group.
Shortly after, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt resigned as chair of Never Back Down, after joining the PAC in April.
“After nearly 26 straight months of being in a full-scale campaign, I need to return my time and attention to my family and law practice,” he wrote in his explanation.
There were even more departures over the weekend, including communications director Erin Perrine and director of operations Matt Palmisano, according to the Associated Press, which spoke to two individuals familiar with the matter. The outlet cited those close to the situation, who believe the wave of exits “is seen as an aggressive step by DeSantis’ loyalists to reassert control over Never Back Down.”
DeSantis ally Scott Wagner is now serving as both interim CEO and board chairman after serving on the board. He made headlines in November after reportedly fighting with fellow board members while discussing budgeting and fellow presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s rise in the polls.
As Breitbart News reported:
“You have a stick up your ass, Scott,” Never Back Down chief Jeff Roe reportedly said to
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Per the AP:
DeSantis’ campaign has relied heavily on Never Back Down for basic campaign functions, though the two sides cannot directly coordinate under federal campaign finance rules. Of the 99 counties DeSantis visited in Iowa, he appeared in 92 of them at Never Back Down events, according to the group’s schedule.
All the while, the DeSantis campaign has come under scrutiny for one of his latest Iowa endorsements, winning over Bob Vander Plaats, a top evangelical leader in Iowa, who confirmed a report that his organization received a $95,000 payment the “DeSantis campaign, a super PAC linked to him and a nonprofit group” prior to his official endorsement of DeSantis, according to Reuters.
“Bob Vander Plaats, the former High School Accountant from Iowa, will do anything to win, something which he hasn’t done in many years,” former President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social statement, following the news.
“He’s more known for scamming Candidates than he is for Victory, but now he’s going around using Disinformation from the Champions of that Art, the Democrats. I don’t believe anything Bob Vander Plaats says. Anyone who would take $95,000, and then endorse a Candidate who is going nowhere, is not what Elections are all about!” he exclaimed.
All of this comes as DeSantis remains 29.7 points behind in Iowa, 38 points behind in New Hampshire, and 38.8 points behind in South Carolina, according to Monday’s RealClearPolitics (RCP) averages.
There seems to be a lot of backing down going on over there.
They’re warming up the butthurt bus headed back to Miami.
All that GOPe money is now going to go to Nikki Haley. The GOPe is throwing in the towel on RDS!
Why do the Republicans have sub-names for their party, like GOPe, Rinos etc?
What the hell kind of political party is that when a percentage of the party always supports the Communist left?
Sounds totally rigged to me.
““is seen as an aggressive step by DeSantis’ loyalists to reassert control over Never Back Down.””
so does that mean the former NBD PAC officials were NOT loyal to desantis?
But, but, but....
we were told constantly by the desantis supporting nevertrumpers that desantis was going to be the candidate to beat, once he announced he was running for president!
And it was going to be his well organized and led campaign that was going to help him do it, not like what the multi time loser campaigns Trump had run....
De Santis is the Republican Bench
food shortages are probably real — all the right answers from the spin doctors with all the wrong questions. Simply, supply and demand. There are a billion more people there, as Desantis and others said — fine you are a sanctuary state — here they all are, take them. The free market is brutally Darwinian. They never thought their bluff could be called, nothing more than that. Government in is arrogance is trying to spread the hurt and uses the optics of cold, heartless MAGA monsters which they seek to portray as the root cause.
But when you have a million more people and didn’t think it would happen — instant shortages. The free market tells the truth the quickest, exactly what is going on in blue states.
It is a simple unmutable law — more people need more food, so in the absence of allowing prices to rise or saying hit the road, there will be shortages.
AGAIN:
NIKKI HALEY IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT
NIKKI IS NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
SHE KNOWS IT
Yup, and she has exactly zero chance of getting the nom.
It’s a sign of the desperation that the donor class is willing to throw more money away on an obviously DOA campaign like Haley’s. They’ve clearly given up on derailing Trump’s nomination, and are now just trying to figure out how they can do the maximum damage to him in advance of the general.
Yeah bert, we know. Trump or bust.
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