There is an interesting report from Politico expanding on the conflict between the campaign of Ron DeSantis and the Never Back Down SuperPAC that was intended to support him. [SEE HERE]
Essentially, the Politico sources from within the DeSantis operation are claiming the campaign is furious about how the SuperPAC has spent tens of millions, yet the Florida Governor is less supported now than before the campaign launched. As the article is framed, we are watching the final stages of the DeSantis implosion as a more favored new SuperPAC is launching for a last-ditch effort at rebranding. That would be reboot 5.0.
That said, I would caution applying too much credit to the actual split, because Ron DeSantis previously deposited his entire leadership and leftover campaign account from his Florida race into the NBD SuperPAC. DeSantis is stuck with Jeff Roe and Ken Cuccinelli regardless of their incompetence.
(Politico) – Tensions between Ron DeSantis’ struggling presidential campaign and his allied super PAC are boiling over, with the campaign losing confidence in Never Back Down’s leadership and ability to orchestrate a TV advertising campaign, according to two people close to the Florida governor.
The criticism comes amid mounting questions about the strength of DeSantis’ campaign, and that of Never Back Down. The super PAC has suffered two major departures over the last week, with the organization’s CEO, Chris Jankowski, and its chair, Adam Laxalt, stepping down.
Earlier this week, DeSantis campaign manager, James Uthmeier, wrote a memo to donors in which he praised Never Back Down for its field operation and urged the group to focus on that going forward. But he implicitly suggested a newly formed pro-DeSantis super PAC, Fight Right, take the lead on TV advertising. Campaign officials believe the PAC’s TV ads have been ineffective, according to two people close to DeSantis and granted anonymity to speak freely.
“The campaign doesn’t think NBD’s current interim leadership should be within a mile of a TV budget,” said one of the people close to DeSantis. A Never Back Down representative declined to comment.
[…] “The last few weeks have caused the campaign to lose confidence in multiple top NBD officials as a result of poor performance as well as rampant leaking to push false, unauthorized narratives to the press,” the person close to the governor said.
Never Back Down has emerged as the highest-spending super PAC of the presidential campaign so far. According to media buying figures, the organization has spent more than $39 million on advertising. But there has been little evidence the barrage has helped, with DeSantis sliding back for months in public opinion polls. He is not only running far behind former President Donald Trump, but is locked in a battle for second with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. (read more)
“The wheels on the bus go woomp woomp woomp“…
If NBD PAC was responsible for the saturation blitz of negative Trump ads last month, then it’s true that those clowns should not be within a mile of Florida Man’s TV budget.
Watching idiots sit around bashing Donald Trump only made me look forward to voting for him again.
The only positive from spending all that money on ineffective TV ads was that it must have depleted the budget for mailings. My mailbox and trashcan have been bereft of Florida Man flyers this Fall.
That’s because his consultants make more commission dollars on the media buys.
There’s gold in them thar shills!
Nice!
Bingo.
There’s a positive for local stations — they can charge premium rates for those useless ads.
When I see Casey all I can think of is Eva Peron. Did they train the kids to do the Trump finger point?
Jill’s ridiculous white gloves in that inauguration were the start of Neocon Ron’s long downward trend.
DeSantis is no help to himself, he’s not very smart or personable. But she is even worse. Just turns people off.
But when Melania wears gloves, she looks so classy and properly dressed.
They’ll be using waders soon to get through their bs.
These stilts were made for faking!
ah you beat me to da boots daddy-o!
Shoulda borrowed Dukakis’ army helmet to round out the look.
Mud? Those boots are made strictly for gawkin’.
DeSanctimonious’s boots NEVER have him a boost!
Down here in the South, we call them shrimper boots. They are also worn crabbing, tonging oysters and any other seafood harvesting.
Good for bottom-fishing too, I hope.
I was not aware the Ron did any menial, productive, messy food work….Are his boots dual-purpose…Like BI BOOTS ? Asking for a friend…..
Nikki Haley Goes Woke and Copies Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Strategy
In 2012, Haley told The New York Times that watching Hillary Clinton speak inspired her to run for office.
“The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton,” Haley stated. “[Clinton] said that when it comes to women running for office, there will be everybody that tells you why you shouldn’t but that’s all the reasons why we need you to do it, and I walked out of there thinking ‘That’s it. I’m running for office.’”
After George Floyd died, Haley posted on social media that America deserved the ongoing Black Lives Matter riots because of the country’s racist past.
Haley claimed all Americans needed to suffer for George Floyd’s death.
https://liberalhackwatch.com/featured/nikki-haley-goes-woke-and-copies-hillary-clintons-2016-campaign-strategy/
As I recall the quote…
“[Clinton] said that when it comes to women running for office, there will be everybody that tells you why you shouldn’t. So you just Arkancide ’em.”
Hey Nimrata, we had enough of foreigners trying to run us! Obozo woke us up!
Good thing nobody told her not to jump off a cliff.
They should fire the candidate.
The picture of Meatball is priceless.
Don’t blame the PAC. Blame the awful presidential candidate who turned his back on the MAGA majority within the GOP to side with the establishment. The DeSantis campaign could raise a trillion dollars and he would still be in single digits as he is today. He’s another two faced CONservative of the establishment variety. The voters see it and that’s why his presidential candidacy is failing big time.
None of them are covered in glory.
All of them sought to deprive us of our rightful and much missed President in order to perpetuate the Communist Coup.
Florida Governors don’t do well as primary candidates against Donald J Trump.
The End.
How can anyone boost the governor, when even his own state has lost faith in him. Little ronnie needs to accept, that he was never truly what his billionaire donors thought he was. A presidential candidate.
What about Ken Cucck? I thought he was part of the Never Back Down PAC? He is great at having melt downs.
He has such a dour personality, never saw a natural smile cross his face.
Good leaders can project a sense of humor.
Great leaders naturally possess a sense of humor.
The fact DeSantis neither projects nor naturally possesses humor says a lot about his psychology, and it demonstrates he falls short of being a great or even a good leader.
The 2015/2016 Trump campaign made me laugh more than I had in a long time! I love P. Trump being who he is!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Ron DeSanctimonious campaign people are dropping like flies. Kristin Davidson of Always Back Down PAC is out. Many others have recently quit, or been fired, in a very unceremonious way. JEFF ROE, who heads “Always,” and is known for spending Top Dollars on failing campaigns (doing massive surgery on a candidate’s wallet!), will, I predict, soon follow. I beat him when he ran the Ted Cruz 2016 campaign – It was great fun!
Dec 02, 2023, 7:47 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111513728162968961
OMG, its NOT the bad advertising, its not the horrible packaging, its that the product taste like skunk piss!
Ergo, change the advertising, dress it up in new packaging,…and the product will STILL taste like skunk piss.
Never Back Down, Fight Right, swing left, stand up-sit down fight fight fight!
And that’s what it’s all about!
(Sung to the tune of . . . )
The irony is there is only one man in the entire world who could rehabilitate Ron’s career, and we all know who that is. Not happenin’.
“Politico sources from within the DeSantis operation are claiming the campaign is furious about how the SuperPAC has spent tens of millions, yet the Florida Governor is less supported now than before the campaign launched.”
Would it be logical to perhaps think that the reason for this is that they backed the wrong candidate???
The more you see him the less you like him. I can’t stand the sight of him, and oh that whiny voice, like fingernails on a chalk board.
The problem with all of these loosers running is they have all exposed themselves as self serving and either Rhinos or establishment goons. They should have all been vocal and furious about the attempted destruction of DJT and stood up for him. That would have united the party against the Demonrat police state and the DNC would be in big trouble. That is what would have best served the American people but that would have required that they put their own self interest subservient to the interest of freedom and made them all heroes. But they are not heroes, they are slime ball narcissists.
Little Ron lost his MoJo so now it’s time for him to GoGo.
P.S. When Karl Rove and Jeb Bush came knocking at your door you shouldn’t have answered it.
Oh so, so true. That began the insight into DeSantis’ judgement. He was misled; but he alone chose to follow them. When you lie down with fleas, you get up with fleas.
“DeSantis is stuck with Jeff Roe and Ken Cuccinelli regardless of their incompetence”
In other words, the NBD super pac cannot overcome DeSantis’ poor performance, his lack of “charm”, his inability to convince people that he has what it takes, his petulance and weird behavior.
At one time I thought Cuccinelli might be a good guy, but when he jumped on the DeSantis train, I realized he was just another shill.
Nevertheless, sometimes there is not enough lipstick in the world to make the pig look like anything other than what it is.
“NBD super pac cannot overcome DeSantis’ poor performance, his lack of “charm”, his inability to convince people that he has what it takes, his petulance and weird behavior.” Let me add one thing to this list. The bullseye somebody scored when they nicknamed Rob “meatball”. Who did that? Does anybody know?
The rate Ronnie’s campaign is going, soon Jeff Roe and Ken Cucci-cucci will be able to go help Nikita the snake.
The people have slumbered out of bed to say ” we still know a lemon
when we see one ” but as the political class thinks they can put lipstick on a pig and sell it to us, the voters grind in there heels
with ” you can lead a horse to water but quit he stinks !
MAGA 👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️
There is one relevant point that always seems to be missing when discussing the revolving door of Ron’s super pacs/donors. These are not the cause of Ron’s failure. It is Ron himself that is the problem. Be it his persona, demeanor, actions, rhetoric, perspective and the such, he comes across as a disingenuous, egocentric impostor that lacks the skill sets, knowledge and perspective to successfully lead this country through the domestic and international crises we now face. The bottom line is that the majority of the electorate (MAGA) are fully aware of the aforementioned and any campaign strategy or amount of money cannot correct that. In layman’s terms, Ron sort of poisoned his own well and his continued finger pointing at everyone else for his own failure demonstrates a level of immaturity and lack of accountability.
well said
From the beginning I developed the following equation: Jeb! + Cruz = DeSantis. This equation has been proven again and again. Ron/Nikki are waiting for Trump to be convicted in one of the “lawfare” trials…it’s the only hope they have to recharge their campaigns. Notice neither one ever mentions the “weaponization of government used against a political opponent” issue. They are toast!
“the campaign is furious about how the SuperPAC has spent tens of millions, yet the Florida Governor is less supported now than before the campaign launched.”
The SuperPAC spent tens of millions, and people saw the real Ron and no one liked what they saw.
Now Christie is out of the debate it is The turn of DeSantis to never Trump. Ryan, Bush and Rove are his guides.
I’ll be glad when RDS and Nikki Haley (the “surging” Nikki Haley, that is) walk off the stage with their participation trophies.
I thought PACs were not supposed to run the campaigns…
The violin ending is hilarious but I doubt anyone on the DeSantis campaign would agree. Trying got promote a guy that politically back stabbed P Trump over the MAL raid is a tough sell.
Maybe the PAC should change their name to Never Show Up
You can have the most brilliant marketing people and unlimited funding. But, attempting to sell a Yugo as a Porsche is a no go and a fool’s endeavor.
Fellow Floridians … Take a look at this crap, from The Capitolist, a FL newspaper…Witness the utter buffoonery herein, how utterly clueless all parties are.
https://thecapitolist.com/swamp-swap-rumors-of-a-win-win-role-reversal-between-rick-scott-and-ron-desantis/#comment-62868