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Top strategist resigns from DeSantis-backing super PAC with less than a month before Iowa caucuses
apnews ^ | Dec 16, 2023 | Jill Colvin

Posted on 12/16/2023 9:34:40 PM PST by backpacker_c

The top strategist for the embattled super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ' campaign for the White House resigned Saturday night in the latest sign of trouble for the GOP hopeful less than one month before voting begins with Iowa’s kickoff caucuses.

Jeff Roe, the top adviser to Never Back Down, is the latest senior staffer to exit Never Back Down, which has been the largest outside group supporting DeSantis’ candidacy.

The Associated Press reported earlier this week on growing concern among some within DeSantis’ operation that interactions between his campaign and his network of outside groups were blurring the lines of what’s legally permissible.

Weighing in on his social media site from Las Vegas, where he is watching a UFC fight, Trump late Saturday cheered the news. “Jeff Roe is out—GAME OVER for DeSanctimonious!” he wrote.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 00001loserron; astroturf; axiomstrategies; desanctimonious; desantis; gameover; holycrap; iowa; iowacaucus; jebbush; jeff; jeffroe; neverbackdown; roe; satnightmassacre; teamdesantis; trump; worstcandidateever
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HA HA HA HA.......

predicted he was likely next when scott wagner, who roe almost got in a fight with, became ceo

🤣

1 posted on 12/16/2023 9:34:40 PM PST by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c
Ron DeSantis is a good Governor.

Trump is like the death star. There's no room for anyone else under his orbit.

2 posted on 12/16/2023 9:37:37 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: backpacker_c

Oh yeah.... forgot....

desantis will win IA and NH, then he’ll show up Trump

the polls don’t mean anything.... desantis will win the primaries and become president

there has to be someone to be backup in case something happens to Trump, and that person is desantis

with a the neverbackdown super pac’s ground game .... err who left?..... nevermind......


3 posted on 12/16/2023 9:40:22 PM PST by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

Ha, one thing Jeff Roe knows is how to pick a loser!


4 posted on 12/16/2023 9:45:24 PM PST by bigbob
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To: MinorityRepublican
Luke Destroys the Deathstar
5 posted on 12/16/2023 9:49:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: backpacker_c

If Jeff Roe were any good as a “strategist” he would have counselled DeSantis to ignore the advice and blandishments of Karl rove and the Trump hating Bush family, tolerate Trump’s eccentrics, become the VP in 2024 and more than likely the President in 2028. Now his political career is in ruins. Whoever Trump chooses as his VP, the ticket will never be as formidable as it should have been.


6 posted on 12/16/2023 9:52:47 PM PST by allendale
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To: backpacker_c

Thanks for playing, Rob. DeSantis’ internal polls are worse than the public polls. That’s why everyone quit tonight.

Great work @ChristinaPushaw and the DeSantis “influencers.” You destroyed Rob’s future. https://t.co/EonDBiTIMF— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) December 17, 2023


7 posted on 12/16/2023 9:52:53 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Yep. The ‘inside’ info is even worse than the the consultants scamming DeSantis admit. Scott Walker likely has a brighter political future than DeSantis. I thought both had promise. Sigh.


8 posted on 12/16/2023 10:02:20 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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DeSantis gained notoriety because he had the Florida legislature ‘paving’ the way to each accomplishment. Governor and legislature were reading off the same script and delivering punch after punch. Without them, he’s just an average governor.


9 posted on 12/16/2023 10:06:19 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: backpacker_c

And the score card is....

Chris Jankowski - CEO
Adam Laxalt - Chairman neverbackdown
Kristin Davison - interim CEO
Erin Perrine - Communications director
Matt Palmisano - Director of operations

and now

Jeff Roe - Chief strategist

That’s the WINNING STRATEGY!

(Supposedly there is another person, but I don’t recall seeing who it was)


10 posted on 12/16/2023 10:06:48 PM PST by backpacker_c
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To: allendale

Jeff Roe made a fortune out of this candidacy.

He was never going to advise not to run.


11 posted on 12/16/2023 10:06:49 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: allendale

I tend to agree.


12 posted on 12/16/2023 10:08:30 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: pepsionice

In past times, an average governor would be a good choice, but not now.


13 posted on 12/16/2023 10:09:04 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: backpacker_c

Never Back Down

but scamper off the battlefield

Sad to say, but 12 jurors and a few crazed prosecutors (or a blond seeking bucks) will have more say regarding the presidency than about 80 million Americans,.


14 posted on 12/16/2023 10:12:16 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Reverend Wright

Yep, almost all the media spending went through roe’s company, axiom strategies or a subsiduary...

Probably about 40-45 million based on what was said about spending for media in articles...


15 posted on 12/16/2023 10:14:11 PM PST by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

Jeff Roe, the top adviser to Never Back Down

16 posted on 12/16/2023 10:16:27 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: backpacker_c

We prefer a lion, but better a tomcat than a donkey.


17 posted on 12/16/2023 10:18:23 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: allendale

The 12th Amendment could become a problem if DeSantis was on a ticket with Trump.


18 posted on 12/16/2023 10:22:28 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: backpacker_c

WIKI

Ted Cruz’s victory in the 2016 Republican Iowa caucus put Roe into the spotlight. Roe was credited as “the architect of Cruz’s first-place finish.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Roe


19 posted on 12/16/2023 10:23:00 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: backpacker_c

DeSanctis, it’s time to “back down”. This campaign is quick sand, and you are a good governor. Go back to Florida while people still remember that.


20 posted on 12/16/2023 10:30:15 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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