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“…
DeSaster !!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have to admit. If nothing else he is very entertaining
Maybe comedy is his fancy. A funny political sitcom, with his wife? Hmm…Mother Knows Best?
Tiara Times?
LOL!
Meatball RON! could team up with the Ukrainian OD Green comedian Zelinskyy for a comedy duo show. Oh wait, can RON! play a piano with his ……..? 🤔
Remember, this wanker sat in a safe room, in an undisclosed basement, while he hoped the three letter club would take out his competition for him.
No sympathy. Hope it cost the lot, down to the dirt on their floor.
His career politics is over. Nobody wants a puppet.
Nobody but the puppeteers.
“DeSantis previously deposited his entire leadership and leftover campaign account from his Florida race into the NBD SuperPAC.”
Right. I still want my money back.
That will help offset my auto insurance increase because the legislature is too busy with Disney.
Me too!
A refund please……
A fool and other people’s money are soon parted.
(adapted)
Red 22! Put it all on red 22!
And lying about tax breaks to the Chinese.
DeSantis gave federally investigated Chinese company tax credit despite earlier denials
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) provided tax relief to a federally investigated subsidiary of a Chinese company, according to Florida state government records, despite claiming in the past his administration had not supported the business.
JinkoSolar, a Chinese-headquartered solar panel manufacturer whose factory in Jacksonville was raided by the Department of Homeland Security last spring after allegations it violated the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2022, received $90,000 from DeSantis in 2020 through his urban job tax credit program, according to Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity. JinkoSolar was eligible because it created 90 jobs in Duval County that year…
…The revelation comes after the DeSantis administration, the DeSantis campaign, and the DeSantis-aligned political action committee Never Back Down underscored how he had distanced Florida from China, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic…
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/desantis-chinese-company-tax-credit-jinko-solar
Did he ever rid Florida of the Chinese Monkey Farm affair?
He didn’t, PETA did!
Animal Rights Group Says Monkey Lab Won’t Be Constructed in Levy County
https://spotlightonlevycountygovernment.com/index.php/2023/02/09/animal-rights-group-says-monkey-lab-wont-be-constructed-in-levy-county/
And –
No monkey business in Levy County: Primate research lab plans get nixed
https://www.wuft.org/news/2022/12/19/no-monkey-business-in-levy-county-primate-research-lab-plans-get-nixed/
👍
“Ha ha!”
The ever DeeMinimis DeeSinkus and his crapola campaign continues to back all the way down.
Jill Casey can’t be too pleased.
The people at right(wrong) scoop believe Casey will be the next governor because the people in Florida just love her!
Quoi?!
That tiara has really gone to her head.
Casey Preying DeMantiss.
Rhonda needs to finish each speech he makes by saying —
OR MY NAME AIN’T NATHAN ARIZONA!!!!
Maybe people should look a bit closer at some of the early campaign expenditures. Some consultants might have been smart enough to know to pick the cash early knowing Rhonda DeSoros was a piece of crap and would never amount to jack squat especially against PDT
I can’t imagine what the atmosphere is like right now in Ron and Jill’s home. Their family, their circle of friends, their temporary political friends….all of it shifting under their feet. All the expectations and goals fading and falling. All happening in real time and way too massive a shift to conceal under any kind of carpet or any length of gloves.
At this point they are, most likely, just longing for it to be over with…..hoping somebody will make it stop. I don’t feel sorry for them….their assumptions and their whole premise for even starting this, as well as their performance in the process, were unrealistic, as Sundance has laid out plainly over many months.
Since the republican players are turning to Nikki, is there still someone representing the RNC who would “officially” tell Ron to just go home? What a mess.
The Big Donors, who run the RNC, haven’t told him to cut and run yet.
Even as they shift to Sticky Nikki, they need Runt in the running still to act as her foil.
His role, while not likely explained to him, is to be thoroughly bloodied by a candidate as lackluster as himself.
How’s you like to be Haley’s whipping boy after being promised the moon? He deserves it all!
Absolument!
When you give up your personal integrity you deserve to every bad thing that you get
It will be interesting to see how Florida falls next guv election.
“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.”
Does this constitute coordination?
No, certainly not, wink wink, not at all, nudge nudge!!
DeSantis definitely would have done better had he not run for President .
He should have endorsed Trump and stood firmly behind Trump.
Don’t he know it, too!
Money talks and BS walks.
Albeit in lifted boots.
He would have needed to be a man of integrity to do that.
He could have learned a thing or two…..
Never Buck Dollars, no matter the angst, the prepositioned lucre keeps Runt married to Team Loser.
Double Plus Good!
Billionaire donors gotta be looking at this and going WTH did I give these clowns money for!
They know why, because they are too greedy and unpatriotic to back the Righteous Nationalism candidate.
They’ll never blame themselves, only their impotent wooden puppets.
DeSantis would get my vote, IF Trump were not in the mix.
He has done some really good things for Florida….and I would have liked to see him as VP..but that is slowly fading.
IMHO he should have waited till 2028…but he made other decisions.
I hope he has not ruined himself for future runs at the POTUS.
Slowly, you say?
Sounds like.
Ha ha. Snort. Snicker.
Welcome to the Treehouse. Are you one of the new hires from the most recent superpac that will revive Meatballs career in politics?
Do you have a clue as to why he did some really good things for Florida? If not, here’s a hint: it’s not because he cared about you and the rest of the people living in Florida.
He’s done. He’s proven he:
1- changed his mind on Ukraine in 24 hours
2- voted for tpp and fast track authority
3- was Paul Ryan’s butt boy
4- would let the Deep StAte have Trump by doing and saying nothing about the Mar-A-Lago raid
He’s had 2 laws changed in FL just for him. Bad look.
He’s done nothing about the auto and home owners insurance crisis. He ran for a 2nd term as governor and 4 months later he bailed on FL for a Presidential campaign.
Nope, Ron is done in politics. State or federal. Period.
I doubt anyone would hire him as a lobbyist seeing as though he couldn’t pull off walking in cowboy boots.
I still enjoy envisioning him as a Disney Lobbyist.
Wearing the ears, sans the stilts.
Casey sporting her tiara as she plans Disney weddings.
All joking aside, the wife has some powerful friends that are behind the scenes. Keep an eye on that one.
{{{shudder}}}
Add county.
He’s a Mitch Money suck-up who will always side with his Corporate Fascist Qwners when push comes to shove.
Oh, they’ll let him push a few Bubba Bait- issues for flavoring, but on the big stuff, he’s their boy.
And these times call for men.
He told us all he needed to by his withholding comments for at least 6 hours with the raid on MAL..and then it was a weak tweet at that.
He RUINED Himself when he never said BOO about the Mara Lago raid in his state! He deserves all the pain, embarrassment and Casey he gets!
Gibbs rule #18…I did not see your post…but I agree.
He’d never get our vote for anything. Guess u haven’t heard, but Florida will in the not so distant future will only be using wind and solar for energy, according to the people he picked for his energy board. Dave Walsh energy expert that lives in FL just talked about this on War Room yesterday.
What is I Watch Too Much Fox News for $200, Alex?
He has ruined himself for ALL future in politics. Better bet the FL Dims will laugh a recall campaign (if that’s possible).
I like Ron a lot…if Trump were not in the mix Gov. DeSantis would get my vote
Funny that, such has been their plan all along.
Suck up the sucky second choice because they’ve left us no other choice.
We haven’t had anyone pushing hard to preposition our perspective on this matter for quite some time.
Fortunately Treepers see through such machinations.
Runt has destroyed his career and will never ascend beyond his current station, and his entire state will resent his presence when he returns to it as much as he does them.
Rob is an idiot.
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed
Thanks for that Cat!
He will never, ever, get my vote. Ever. For anything. Even for dog catcher.
Dog catchers have and require far more integrity!
Chef Boy RD is permanent latrine queen from where the sun now stands.
You had best duck.
“I like Ronalot” Great slogan for his reboot..😆
Rhymes with “Camelot”!
Except he will NEVER have a super-packed Republican Congress like he does in Florida. And that is all up for grabs now that he’s too busy to pay attention to his business in Florida or his constituents… When you campaign on being re-elected as governor & promise to not run for president when you’re governor & then get the legislature to fix it so you can run for president, you are a liar.
So yeah, when a politician flat out lies & he’s not even a politician in DC, it really is a bummer how low his supporters will go to support him.
Ron is that you?
Bingo
We got your message.
Now run along!
Don’t go away mad Alex. Just go away.
You need to run on back to Red State & Townhall…Bonchie & Schlicter are waiting for you.
You’ll NEVER find agreement about DeFraud at the Treehouse…we don’t pretend!!!
I’ll take ROLCON for 500, Alex.
😂
Is it the permanent scowl, the forced laugh, or the clomping around on boots with lifts that endear him to you?
“……….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.”
Blaming your meal ticket for your own failures. With each passing day, more and more, this guy is turning into left-wing liberal.
Welp…..At least we’re finding out about his true character now, while somebody else wastes their time and money on him.
Another win-win for the consultant class!
NEXT!
It’s Jeb! 2.0, lol.
The Government Party has given up on the primary to stop Trump. They’ll keep a couple of these losers around in case Biden is successful throwing Trump in prison.
They’re already sowing the seeds for a “stop the dictatorship” civil war George Floyd style attack on the country.
You’re already hearing them talking about it. And, like reliable Democrats, what they really mean is 2024 is when they set up the dictatorship. They always accuse us of doing what they are doing.
It’s up to us to stop them.
If they don’t let Ron try to repair the blade on his lawnmower by himself, how’s he ever gonna learn?
(And no, telling him to turn the mower off first is NOT the way to handle this… again, Meatball’s gonna have to learn some tough lessons for himself.)
“Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade …”
This is what suckers like DeSwampass gets when they backstab the person who “brung” them to the dance in the first place. DeSwampass would not be Governor if not for President Trump’s help.
Backstabber RON! was convinced by the professional class “consultant” like Karl ” White Bore” Rove, Ken “Slimeball” Cuccinelli, Christina “Skank” Pushshaw, Jeff “Loser” Roe, etc. that he was the greatest thing since popcorn and he could “fool” the MAGA America First voter to turn on Donald Trump. Casey was so orgasmic about being “First Lady” that she already had the decorator ready for the White House. 🙄
Now it appears that all of RON! and Casey’s new found “friends” are abandoning them like a burning garbage heap as the money is drying up. Time for those scumbag Washington District of Criminal, Never Trump consultants to move on to their next arrogant victim Nimrata “Non Grata” Haley. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤑🤑🤑 “A fool and their money are soon parted”.
Nimrata “non grata” Haley. I like that.
Nimrata Randhawa.
Birdbrain herself said that we should be compelled to use our real names on algore’s internet.
Maybe he should change his name to “Sasso”.
desantis is american version of zelenskyy, … at one time he was on the right track to help save this country from ruin… his lack of wisdom and 2 faced value system was revealed and that set him on the his own track to self ruin…
The verdict is still out, will desantis become another uniparty communist or will he just fade away like he should…
But, but, but didn’t he score well against Gruesome Newsome?? My tortoise could have beat Gruesome & all he does is quack, cluck or yawn depending on how annoyed he is.
that was a ccp sht show. + newsome said neither one would be elected to run in the general…. that was the whole point of that sht show. deshitskyy was too stupid to say… oh yeah the fascist ccp-democrats are just going to write your name in at the ccp-demo convention…. why else would you “newsome” setup a hitler like nazi parade for the ccp leader of the world… “
From my NOVEMBER 29th devotional thought: “There is no right way to do the wrong thing.”
“Character is a victory, not a gift.”
Ha ha ha. Candidate Stompy Foot.
Stompy Stilts!
The problem is the candidate. RDS is a terrible candidate . He can’t connect with voters. Sometimes all the money you can spend won’t make this Humpty any more sellable to people.
People said he was an awful campaigner and they didn’t listen.
He did barely beat a crackhoe for the governorship………..
With out Donald Trump RON! would not have prevailed on that one either. He is so grateful he gave Trump a new knife………in the back….. as a thank you.
Um, isn’t the whole point of a SuperPAC that it is theoretically supposed to be an “independent expenditure” organization not controlled by a particular candidate or campaign, and so it is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money far above what campaign finance laws allow candidate campaigns to spend? Yes I know it is all a fiction and a shell game. Candidates coordinate with SuperPACs all the time. But they used to at least pretend.
Do these consultants get a percentage of the advertising money spent. What a beautiful racket…even when you lose you win!
It’s just an excuse to flip the cash and support over to Haley.
Ron DeWho? is now totally defeated.
Why spend so much time on him?
Why criticize a winning formula?
Why back off the pressure and let him gain breathing room?
Why not appreciate the Trump led diminuation of the very personification of those that hate us?
Kemp had a scheduled, announced meeting in Adairsville, GA on 11/29 with POMPEO and others.
What’s the news about the outcome of that meeting?
Just sayin
Obsession with someone who is 6 feet under is not a winning formula.
Are the Israelis firing artillery round after artillery round at a target that has already been destroyed either by them or by itself?
Or do they move on to another target?
Huh, looks like PDJT is winning to me.
What do you get out of criticizing him?
Ron DeSantis must be destroyed. His kind must never rise again.
Some lessons must be brutal or they don’t stick.
Wondering if his marriage will survive this.
I’ve had that thought as well.
Avarice and ambition breed strife.
Failure invites contempt.
so this will be his farewell tour.he was here in iowa and reynolds is just giddy with casey,and i believe thats why she endorsed the deflator.one good thing will come of this.iowa will turn on reynolds and dump her ass to the curb in the same fashion.
From due south in MO I hope you’re right Cherokee.
SW suburban Chicago agrees.
Pro-DeSantis super PAC fires interim CEO after 9 days.
Never Back Down fired Kristin Davison on Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/02/desantis-super-pac-ceo-00129765
Is his, “vessel listing?”
Ken Cuchinelli is he another defector from PTrump. Didn;t he work
for PTrump with the border?
Yes, kitty kat with a racing stripe down his back
They are backing down from the “Never Back Down”?
Here, let me join you playing the violin:
“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.”
Hey! How about we hire some people to post online in support of DeSaster. We could call them influencers! Certainly they will be able to sway people.
Unfortunately for them, people were swayed away from him.
The paid DeSimp’s on Twitter are noticeably quiet lately. STRANGE!
But we have one here tonight. I think he gave up…🤣🤣
to be fair they have a LOUSY candidate
Yes, but they chose him, they propped him up since 2018 for this role, yet couldn’t see this coming?
From serious to delirious
L. O. L.
MNN BREAKING …
* MITT ROMNEY SAYS HE WILL VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT, EVEN THE ONES WHO BLACKMAILED HIM INTO THROWING THE 2012 ELECTION
* And in other Electionish News, Charles Koch has pledged $70 million to prop up Nikki Haley through his foundation “Americans For Charles Koch’s Prosperity” after Ron Desantis became the only candidate in History who pulled himself down by his own bootstraps.
Haley’s Corporate Owners told her she wants to make everyone use their real names on the internet.
Okay. Nimrata Randhawa.
“I hear Ukraine is hiring!”
Manufactured News Network : “We Would Happily Give Up Our Sources in a Minute, If We Had Sources!”
Rest in the Vine: MNN Headline Noose
laughter is a helluva drug
thanks, TGL
ty, mg!
Well done!
“Ron Desantis became the only candidate in History who pulled himself down by his own bootstraps.”
Not sure if that would make a better campaign slogan or bumper sticker. Maybe both?
Epitaph.
resolute: That’s hilarious.
I’ve heard NBD and the Meatball’s official campaign organization have really, really pushed the legal line regarding the rules of “independent” Super PACs hosting events for individual candidates, and has likely done enough for the DOJ to file charges if and when the political need arises.
With the DeSantis campaign running on fumes somewhere over the Southeast Pacific Ocean and increasing legal liabilities, a greater perception of distance between itself and its donor infrastructure makes sense.
The Day the wheels came off was the day President Trump dubbed him “DeSanctimonious”
and each day since has been fun to watch the “chosen one” drown in the swamp that owns and surrounds him.
I say his fate was sealed the day Sundance spied his aim and outed him.
Not to take anything away from our Champion, he has been magnificent and it is indeed a joy to watch.
Awe shucks, they always blame the messenger.
Could it possibly be the candidate?
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. In high-heeled boots.
You can put a pig on stilts, but can blame only yourself for the pig poo on your face when he falls.
Desantis is like a small rodent that hitched a ride on an eagles back and thought he was flying. So he bit the eagle and jumped off, flapping his imaginary wings. The splat he makes when he hits tge ground will be well deserved and a joy to witness.
help me Ronda, help help me Ronda
What shows DeSanctimonious’ incompetence is anyone with half a brain could see PDJT’s popularity. All he had to do was support PDJT and focus on improving FL – two outcomes: the left takes out PDJT and he could be the martyr to step into the void or easily ride into a 2028 run on the coattails of PDJT success.
You must always own the downside, losers downside is the end of his political career as a loser governor who tanked FL’s great run.
the Rinos musta served up some fancy eatings for Ronda to queer himself for 2028
They surely told him it was 2024 or never.
It was a virtual suicide mission, why would they subject a Bush to that when they had a tool like Runt?
the RINOs got their horse for 2028 and his initials are Glenn Youngkin
Could be.
Ron just doesn’t do it for them.
DeSantis is having, and will continue to have, the same problem until he drops out.
Trump is running against him.
RDS is a real disease Ron Derangement Syndrome will affect most
if DeSantis support would have helped put FL EC votes for Trump could this be RNC NeverTrump willing to lose by FL turning purple/blue
It has been suggested here that Runt has effectively preweaponized the state for a brutal Leftist administration, and that his hijinks may lose Florida to the Blues.
The Floridian Dumbasspora that he brags on won’t likely be keen on him or his party, either, so there’s that.
President Trump being on the ballot is the strongest hope Florida has to resist falling ever farther Left.
Will Sundance please tell us what about his personal Vendetta against DeSantis — Besides hating the Bushes.
Cute.
Reducing a vast trove of evidence and explication to a claimed personal animus.
You don’t undermine Sundance with that juvenile aspersion, but you instead reveal a sad shallowness.
That you repeat this silliness, knowing he hasn’t need nor inclination to address it, suggests your motives are impure.