It’s like watching a slow-motion train wreck of Sea Island billionaires.
Last week the Chief Executive Officer of the DeSantis “Never Back Down” super PAC, Chris Jankowski, backed down and quit. This week the Chairman of the SuperPAC, Adam Laxalt, quits. …And Florida now dislikes DeSantis, so there’s no easy return home. Best primary election ever.
Associated Press – The chairman of the most powerful independent group supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential ambitions has resigned, marking the second major departure at the pro-DeSantis Never Back Down super PAC in the last two weeks.
Never Back Down Chairman Adam Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general and a close DeSantis confidant, submitted his resignation on Sunday, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Associated Press on Friday. The New York Times first reported Laxalt’s decision.
“Effective immediately, I am resigning from the Board of Directors of Never Back Down. 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,” Laxalt wrote to the super PAC board. “I will continue to support Governor DeSantis in whatever ways I can, and I hope and pray that his campaign will be successful.”
Last week, the super PAC’s chief executive, Chris Jankowski, also resigned.
The moves come as DeSantis struggles to redirect his stagnant presidential campaign, which has fallen far short of expectations. The 45-year-old Florida governor entered the 2024 GOP primary this spring as the chief rival to former President Donald Trump. Now, he’s locked in a fierce contest for a distant second place with former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley as Iowa’s make-or-break presidential caucuses loom just six weeks away. (read more)
All of these characters were former Ted Cruz 2016 guys. Too funny.
Trump 2024 and Trump 2024 alone
However, I would much rather ‘absent from this body and present with the Lord’.
Amen.
Never back down… heh… only option now is face first off the overpass…
Time for Glen Beck and the Blaze clowns to jump into the likki clown car.
ikki
Give him another bag of Cheetos he can snort.
You spelled Nimrata wrong.
Bet he votes for President Trump next November!
Why is MTG making that face?
I find the whole thing suspect. In 2008, I seem to recall that John McCain underwent a “miraculous” political resurrection, and went on both to the GOP nomination and a splendid concession speech.
Looking for last night’s debate to turn into Iowa momentum, Strange New Respect, and a completely unforeseen, media-erotic rise of DeSantis.
Could it be more like the Wall Street term ( apropo of lyn’Ryan ) ~ a “dead cat bounce “ ?
That was during the time of pretending.
This is during the age of awakening.
In 2016, Donald Trump turned Jeb Bush into an internet meme, for which we all enjoy, left and right, to this very day.
In 2024, Donald Trump turned Ron DeSantis into an example. There will be no rebound. There will be no second chance. His career is done. His attention-seeking, power hungry ass, will be left wanting for the rest of time.
Poor Casey. (Sarcasm)
Yep,
I know never say never, but it is difficult to imagine that should President Trump be somehow cheated out of the nomination, or worse.
That any of his true supporters would ever vote again.
I know I wouldn’t, nor would any of our immediate family.
Is the RNC truly aware that the party will implode if they “ knee cap” the true President.
Cheers!
It’s imploding as President Trump’s campaign advances to victory.
The Party is a dead man walking. GOPe won’t vote for Trump. TreeHouse MAGA will never vote for RINOs or give the RNC money. The only glue is the money that can be “earned” by a Trump Landslide and the grift to be made trying to sabotage him again. Trump is our Murder weapon on the RNC too.
Ronna’s RNC ledger is not getting inputs….
The UniParty Plan … since shortly after Mar-A-Lago I’ve had a bad feeling the RINORAT plan was to use DeSantis to cheat MAGA and Trump out of Trump’s nomination – knowing DeSantis will lose – for a RINORAT Trifecta … if Nikki becomes the DeSantis stand in – no one will care or notice … the result will be the same – another democrat Puppet/Prop in the whitehouse … and the UniParty will activate their NWO.
Good points. Not only does MAGA not want anything to do with The Meatball, but the GOP Establishment, that has been running and bankrolling his hapless presidential campaign, are ready to throw him overboard and support Nikki Haley.
DeSantis has burned all his political bridges now. I wouldn’t vote for that man to be dogcatcher in my town!
DeSantis was by far and away their “Plan A”.
They put a LOT of work into sculpting his image as Americas Governor.
The plan was the others on the debate stage would just act to support his candidacy, to give versimilatude to the lie that the primary process was a contest (this after PDJT was knocked out of the running early on by the MAL raid and indictments.
And yes, Nikki would be positioned to be Rons VP.
Point is, with RDS crash/burning they are trying to promote nikki, without 2-4 years of sculpting and propping.
If RDS couldn’t cut it, Nikki or anybody else has no chance.
You heard Ryan, they still believe 50% of Republican voters really want “somebody other than Trump to save the R party from MAGA”.
They believe that cause thats what their internal polling data SAYS; That around 40-50% of REPUBLICAN VOTERS THAT RESPOND TO THE POLL, say they are open to somebody other than PDJT.
But they ‘don’t know wgat they don’t know’, which is that MAGA do not do polling, and if they DID, that # would shrink to 10-15%.
N.H scares me worse than r.d. Because, “wimin vote”.
I could see a lot of leftish surburbans crossing over.
Watch for magic incantations appropriate for bumper stickers. Right to choose for the children’s health education care collage fund.
It might be fun to watch a cat fight between Kamala and Nikki. I’d buy tickets.
Just thinking out loud.
Be interesting to see who he supports after his exit. My bet is the Unabomber, they both wear heels.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! 😆
Hey ronnie, I don’t believe your big donors were ever impressed with your boots. Once a b team member, always a b team member.
Ron is not a Wilbury.
And then my poor meatball,
Was nothing but mush
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away…
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door… (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away…
Antigonish by Hughes Mearns
My mother used to quote this poem all the time!
Mine as well, except slightly different; she wasn’t upon the stair, she went outside to get some air. Nowadays when I think of this poem, I hear it in Kurt Cobain’s voice. A’ la, “The man who sold the world”.
I would go with the O.G. on “The Man Who Sold The World”: David Bowie.
Whatever.
“I have decided to step aside to spend more time with my girlfriend.”
Adolf Hitler, April 30, 1945
It’s always the family isn’t it? That’s the PR clowns go-to verbiage isn’t it? Time to spend time with the family … Unh huh … yeahhhhh … my guess is that your family thrives on your absence.
I fully expect this man will soon divorce his wife … and come out of the closet as a gay man.
She’ll dump him first when the timing is best for her financially.
“If you want to bring happiness to the whole world, go home and love your family.”
—Saint Teresa of Calcutta
DeSantis played a multiple bank shot that required the Demonrats to imprison Trump or otherwise keep him off the ballot.
If they succeed, from now until the day I die, I will write-in Donald J. Trump for every office that has a Republican contender.
Da Meatball was promised those things would happen. Currently polling down 60 points or so to President Trump, Da Meatball’s choice does not look so good.
Such an incredible, incalculable misjudgment on his part. It’s staggering how stupid he was.
His handlers are stoopid. Rob just gets tossed around like a hot potato.
When one considers that Ron Demeatball probably got a huge payoff to run against PDJT, perhaps he was not the stupid one. He can likely laugh, at least half-heartedly, to the bank.
Perhaps the stupidity was among the Powers That Be who have presented we voters with the lesser of two evils in elections for dozens of years, thinking that they still control the USA elections.
Any time an election has a choice between the lessor of two evils, indicates that the election is rigged.
I think you may be right. Remember that “book deal” and tour that netted Ron a lot more than he would make as Governor by a lot.
Do you think FL will take him back? Or Trump will be jailed in Georgia where he can not pardon himself?
Listen sgain to the first 30 seconds of that Ryan clip.
He is introduced as having two different high paying jobs, and we know he is on the Faux board, so thats 3 jobs at at least $100,000/year plus bennies and options,..and thats YEARS after he retired as Speaker, and ran and “lost” as VP.
Ron will be well taken care of, count on it.
No, President Trump will not be jailed in Georgia, or anywhere else for that matter.
Never underestimate the raw stupidity of the bushCARTEL & Rove.
I sent him numerous messages that he should not run in this election and that if he did it would forever ruin his political career. I voted for him twice as my US representative and twice for Governor, but will never vote for him again for any position. At least we have learned through this primary process that he is beholden to the money, and therefore, the will of the establishment. We can never un-see that.
I am truly concerned he has ruined our chances of a future conservative governor in FL and we likely end up with the horrible woman, Nikki Fried.
I think your current Lt. Gov is much worse than fried Nikki.
Not only on the puppet’s part but the on the puppeteers …. They are now changing the strings to Nimrata’s sticks.
DeSantis has always been part of the GOPe. A lot of conservatives in the Republican Party make their home in the establishment and RDS does too!
Amen. I love President Donald Trump. I would crawl through a parking lot of broken glass to vote for him.
President Trump exposed the Uniparty for the globalist liars, back-stabbers and traitors that they are: Bush, Ryan, McConnell, Barr, McCain, McCarthy, the Cheneys, Mutt Romney & his niece, Birdbrain, Meathead, McStain, Karl Rove, ad nauseum, have done all within their power to sabotage Trump and to make America Last, not First. A pox on all their houses.
Sarah Palin is one of the few exceptions. She deserved so much more than to run with a guy who was determined to lose at all costs.
Sarah Palin where areth thou?
Democrat’s constant seething over Trump just makes him more popular with his base.
Independents remember how good it was under Trump.
Or, as James Carville said:”It’s the Economy, stupid!”
We have not even begun to see the depths to which the Uniparty is going to sink to.
Nor have we begun to see the power behind what is driving President Donald Trump.
Key to your comment:
“power behind what is driving President Donald Trump”
At TGP, Cara Castronuevo did “on the street” interviews in the Bronx, normally a very blue area.
Got all pro-Trump responces, and people not shy about saying why.
Never Back Down, until the moment the SHTF.
Were there truth in advertising, the SuperPAC would have been named “Always Back Down.”
Whomp, whomp.
“…so there’s no easy return home.”
Political suicide is not painless for this man in a hurry.
That’s where hubris and greed get you.
“This week the Chairman of the SuperPAC, Adam Laxalt, quits.”
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Alternate Headline: “Adam Laxalt, last seen praising & kissing Trump’s arse after the latter’s endorsement of the former in the 2022 Nevada Senate race, commits career suicide almost as bigly as Ron DeStilettos. He’s dead, Jim. Film at 11:00 …”
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Adam Laxalt deserves to be thought of as his own man, not as the product of whence he came.
His grandfather was seeped in NV politics, but did not retire back to his home state when he left the Senate.
Now the family business sits vacant, and has been up for sale for years.
Adam is the son of one of Paul Laxalt’s daughters. She recently passed away.
One may wonder why she did not bestow Adam’s father’s name to him?
Most likely from pressure from that family, yet another politically affiliated one: reportedly the 20-something Laxalt girl was impregnated by one of her father’s colleagues in the Senate, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, and all of this has only been fairly recently disclosed.
All in all, it just seems that this guy, Adam, was born into quite a bit of baggage — which is unfortunate, because he does deserve to be thought of as his own man.
But, I repeat myself . . .
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Fun fact:
Current New Mexico Senator, Martin Heinrich, was born in NV.
Agree, but still, terrible judgment.
Okay, I didn’t know any of that but I really didn’t need to know. It is interesting.
As far as I’m concerned, Adam Laxalt is his “own man”.
Everyone has a family history.
It doesn’t necessarily relate to every event in a person’s life.
I would rather view Adam Laxalt in his own right brought about by his own actions to date.
But that’s just who I am.
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We would all need to know if he ever decided to run for president, himself.
A natural born citizen does not just come from a mother . . .
So how does he get the last name if his mother was a Laxalt?
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That is the name he was given by his mother.
Do you think there is a law saying that a child must be given its father’s last name?
Heck, there’s no law that requires a woman to even acknowledge that she knows who the father of her baby is.
Inbreeding among the aristocracy, bearing poison fruit for 6,000 years.
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Well, maybe the stories of wild parties and orgies amongst DC politicians have been stifled for longer than we have been let on to think . . .
This man needs an Epiphany…….or something. He and Laxalt shived President Trump out of the blue and in the back.
(Never Back Down Director Ken Cuccinelli, a former Trump administration official who made waves in March when he helped found the pro-DeSantis super PAC, emailed other board members objecting to a decision to “send $1m to a separate PAC to run attack ads on Nikki Haley,” read one email sent Monday night and obtained by NBC News.
“The manner in which the Haley hit and its funding appears to be proceeding is exceedingly objectionable to me, and by this email I ask Cabell Hobbs, in his capacity as Board Secretary, to preserve this email as part of the board records,” Cuccinelli continued.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-nikki-haley-fight-right-never-back-down-rcna126102
“Now we’ll find out who are friends are.”
So said President Trump to Don Jr right before he descended the escalator to announce he was running for the 2016 nomination.
He may not have known then. But he has a better idea now.
The Brutuses have knifed themselves.
Obama is a brutuses community leader.👀😳
When the whole story is told it will all lead back to Obama.
He probably said “our friends “.
Typo from me…
Donald J. Trump unveiled many and their ilk.
Some folks just really need to know and understand their limitations! (Ron)…
The Outlaw Jose Wales: “A man’s gotta know his limitations.”
Buzzards gotta eat same as worms!
That’s from one of the Dirty Harry flicks, probably Magnum Force.
Some folks need to learn the meaning of words before they use them.
Never back down?
Never?
Absolutely not ever, on no occasion and at no time?
Or “never” until a few months pass by, or “never” until no one wants to play with you any longer?
“We will stand with Ukraine for,….AS LONG AS IT TAKES!” LOL.
He could have used the words of another Floridian and called it the “Won’t Back Down” pac. Seems that would have been a better choice. And FL loved, and still loves, Tom Petty.
Yeah…”What’s in a name” is not understood by many.
Yet another…backs down.
It’s a big Club and we’re not in it. Thank God!
💩
Looks like they just came down from a hotel room.
It’s over for Da Meatball.
The Sea Island crew will attempt to pivot to Haley but they will waste millions on that effort.
It’s President Trump or bust for 2024.
If it’s bust…my consolation prize will be to see the utter destruction of the backstabbing, worthless, Republican Party! They won’t win shit for a generation and it’ll be all their own doing.
They won’t care.
Damn…just imagine the millions of children who could be fed and clothed with those wasted billions (by the end of these fake campaigns) and possibly even finding them a loving, caring family to bring some cohesiveness into our divided house.
I know, I’m delusional.
Sorry…not sorry…
that is what I think every 4 years
Heard that announcement on the local news here in Nevada and thought Wow! Laxalt and DeSantis were best friends while serving together in the military, even if just lawyers, and the local news said Laxalt wanted to focus more on his family.
Sad Sack DeSantis.
…. And his law firm.
Truth hits you in the face!
DeSaster has no political capital left here in Florida…Casey big mad now…
TrumpZilla 2024!!!
Jeb money no work.
Annndddd they got about the same results with DeSanctimonious, only made themselves a LOT more money, I suspect…
golly gee why?
They really thought they had this, didn’t they? They thought they’d positioned DeSanitized as the “rational” version of PDJT, didn’t they?
I am now mildly amused at those (like Hannity) who REFUSE to give up on DeLoser. DePrefab
Probably Bongino and Levin, too.
I live in Vegas, I voted for that dirtbag, I’m very glad he lost and I’ll never vote for him again! I hear that everywhere, from everyone I know or talk to. He might want to pick another state to haunt. He’s definitely done in Nevada!
Ditto…..++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Never take a dodgy job for an organization called Never Back Down unless you’re sure of keeping it for a long time. It looks like crap on the resume.
We really do not know the terms of this employment agreement or what event really brought it about.
And we never will.
Sounds like a Hallmark movie.
Who makes this crap up?
They’ll put “NBD” on their resume and allude they supported a “prominent” republican candidate. 🤣🤣🤣
“After nearly 26 straight months of being in a full scale campaign.” 26 months. Uh huh. Christina, tell us again how this was all organic.
Organic requires lots of natural fertilizer
Yeah, ask Marco Rubio about DeZaster registering to run in Lil Marco’s place if the cabal made Marco president in 2016.
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!
When can we wake up from all of this?
As a Nevadan who has voted for Adam Laxalt every time that he was up for election, it greatly peeves me that he put time and energy into trying to keep PDJT from winning the WH in 2024. What was it, Adam, that made you think that you know better than the MAGA voters of this nation who want Trump back in the WH?
Anyone who tries to keep PDJT from serving his/OUR second term and/or cannot see that PDJT is our last chance to rescue this nation is dead to me. Laxalt will never get my vote again.
No worries; he’s prolly outta politics now because he’s spending time with his family and back at his law practice to make money so he can feed his family and pay the utility bills and send the kids to private school.
That’s how it works.
Maybe the PAC ran out of interested money to pay him.
If donors are upset, the six figure salary goes away and the contact goes ‘POUF’.
This for the win: Trump goes to jail. We the People Jihad (@jarrinjackson phrase) the ballot boxes. Trump wins. Since all political power resides in the people we institute the first page of US law (3rd through 6th sentences). All voters Jotform SCOTUS Gorsuch and Kavanaugh etal as Dave Jose @realdavecares4U did the first of November. SCOTUS continues its recently ascendant trajectory by agreeing that the people’s choice (foundational argument) is supreme. Their choice becomes president.
The following Rumble video explains the principle and success (in less than 2 weeks) of flipping SCOTUS on administrative tribunals:
https://rumble.com/v3z27bw-you-want-the-truth-jts12012023.html?mref=a1rnj&mc=duimz
Minute 17 is an OK place to start if you’re in a hurry. God Bless Dave Jose and Jarrin Jackson for putting their faith where our founders placed theirs. This miracle is not unlike those that God gave them. 🙏
I just love it when Truth arrives on the scene and a Plan comes together.
Carry on.
Shadenfreude thy name is Sundance.
What are the odds DeSantis makes it to Iowa?
Oh he will go to Iowa, just like Christie is going to Iowa but they will lose, just as Birdbrain will lose.
It’s over but they have to finish the skit.
“It’s over but they have to finish the skit.”
Well….yeah….If they want to get their thirty pieces of silver they’ll finish the skit.
It will become a SNL skit.
Yes, Ron will stay through to SC, same w/ Christie. Although Christie may be paid to go the long haul.
Vivek is financing himself….but his stage director says to the end!
Love it.
Oh God, I hope Laxalt doesn’t come back to Nevada.
Now they’ll all try to suck up to Trump.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If this spells the beginning of the end of the DeSantis campaign, then who will be tapped to fill these molecules of space left behind?
Never Pac Clown
(Superpac/Superclown)
One by one DeSanctimonious’ team is backing down. Does the Meatball himself back down and quit around Christmastime when they think no one’s paying attention? Trump curse coming your way, Meatball.
We’ve arrived at the moment where there is no good done in gloating about the fall of DeSantis. We are going to need his voters to beat the cheaters.
Indeed.
Both of them.
Frankly, Fugm.
DeSanctus supporters were arrogant, crude and rude, and I am fed up with “we must unify the party” when that only ever goes one way.
In 2016, in Ohio, requests for $ for Trump/Pence yardsigns and bumper stickers went unanswered, because the State R party was run by Kasich RINOS, who wanted Trump to lose.
I guarantee you, after PDJT gets the RNC nomination, the RNC and STATE R party hierarchy’s will work hard, to see he loses.
Is that you, Dan Bongino?
“Never”
he keeps using that word
i do not think it means what he thinks it means lol
What is the source of Laxalts wealth?
All I find is a net worth of 8 million in 2022 after receiving 1.5 million from working at a law firm.
What qualifies these people to be called Sea Island billionaires?
Sea Island I understand but is billionaires a misnomer?
Sad!
Should have just stayed in FL and played to the home crowds, meatball. Now youre toast.