Following a scathing insider report of the turmoil within the campaign and SuperPAC for presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, chief strategist Jeff Roe resigns.
It is stunning to contemplate the starting point of $269,000,000.00 [and more since] has essentially done nothing except destroy the public image and brand of Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis. No presidential campaign has ever amassed such a proactive funding war chest and blown it to smithereens before the first votes have even taken place.
Never Back Down Super PAC Chief Strategist, Jeff Roe, delivered the following statement via Twitter:
The Washington Post presented a scathing report [SEE HERE] outlining details provided by 22 people in the DeSantis campaign and Super PAC. Within hours of that report being posted, Jeff Roe quit.
WaPo – […] With just weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, the experiment is now in tatters. The super PAC that funded almost all of the DeSantis advertising and field programs and much of the candidate’s travel and events has been sidelined by the people that created it.
[…] Five senior officials have left Never Back Down since late November. Three officials with Roe’s firm were fired, and the board chairman and the founding chief executive both resigned, amid internal concerns about legal compliance. A verbal conflict from inside the group’s Atlanta offices became public, as did DeSantis’s own misgivings about the outside group’s leadership. The governor and his campaign staff have been frustrated by reporting on the drama around Never Back Down and critical of the group’s ad strategy, with DeSantis’s second campaign manager, James Uthmeier, publicly instructing donors to give elsewhere for TV ads.
Rather than a new playbook for presidential campaigns, the broader DeSantis project has exposed the dangers of depending on emerging loopholes in campaign finance law that allow candidates to turn over traditional election efforts to groups that can take donations of any size from corporations or individuals.
“The super PAC model of winning a presidential primary, I think, is staggering, if not on the ropes,” said one DeSantis donor. “And if you’re going to have a successful presidential primary campaign you need to be able to raise hard dollars.”
[…] On Saturday, a top official at Never Back Down elaborated on the firings in a statement that for the first time publicly suggested their rationale. “Following mismanagement and conduct issues, including numerous unauthorized leaks containing false information, senior officials were terminated,” said Never Back Down chairman Scott Wagner. “We don’t have time to indulge false narratives from those with ulterior motives.”
The Post asked employees for a response. A lawyer for the employees then contacted Wagner claiming his assertions were categorically false and he revised his statement, replacing the first sentence with: “Following some opinions regarding mismanagement and conduct issues, including some who believed there appeared to be numerous unauthorized leaks containing false information, NBD and some senior officials parted ways. ”
A representative for the three former employees declined to comment Saturday.
Three people familiar with the super PAC’s decision-making described reasons for suspecting the three fired officials of wrongdoing, but the organization did not provide clear evidence implicating them. Two other people familiar with the inner workings of the group said they are not aware of proof.
[…] Still, some in DeSantis’s orbit are holding out hope for a comeback. During his first campaign for governor, DeSantis won despite shaking up his team late in the race.
“Clearly, we are underperforming. Clearly we haven’t lived up to the billing. But I do think this adaptive behavior is going to produce better results in the end,” said Dan Eberhart, a DeSantis donor. “Clearly, Haley has some momentum nationally. Clearly, Trump is lapping the field. But I think he’s got an underdog’s chance at pulling off a humongous upset.” (read more)
The DeSantis loyalists promise to keep swinging for the fences. However, everything around their effort was/is built upon fraud, manipulation, deceit and astroturf. This outcome should not come as a surprise to those who have followed along.
Almost everyone in the operation and in the promotion thereof, are retreads from the failed Ted Cruz campaign of 2016. Someone in professional GOPe circles had the idea to enmesh the Never Trump group with the Bush team and try to build a brand image for Ron DeSantis that could co-opt the MAGA base.
It was a stupid strategy from the outset, made even worse by their tone-deaf missing of reality. Tens-of-millions of core base voters have their eyes wide open now. They are not going to destroy the movement, and the collapse of Ron DeSantis just shows how strategically smart the base voter has become.
At a certain point, the pretending hits the sunlight of reality.
269,000,000$ would have bought almost 9 miles of fencing. A much better investment.
It is as if all these billionaires and their henchman conspired to destroy RDS. I am no spring hen — and this is about the worst campaign I have ever witnessed.
I have been thinking the same thing. They convinced him and his ambitious wife to do it now instead of 2028 so they could destroy him. If this is the case and he didn’t see it coming, he doesn’t have what it takes to face the swamp. Pity. He could have had a good future.
What future? He hates us!
I disagree. He was and is a member of the cretin club. Never been anything more. Showed us that when he was sitting in the basement during the palm beach raid.
I have hope I am reading the cards correctly on Josh Hawley for 2028.
Got to slay 2024 and next 4 years first.
It was Ron who wanted to change (motive?) the way campaign was funded and the fights started. For whatever
No, what we are seeing is arrogance and incompetence from the billionaires. They really thought they, and their deep state allies could defeat DJT. They live in a bubble of yes people telling them they are right all the time. DC runs exactly the same way. There is no reverse gear with these arrogant people. They go until the money runs out or there are no more bodies to send into the meat grinder. Then they move on to their next distraction and everything they failed at is erased from the news cycle. Kind of like Ukraine, lol. I love watching these a-holes squirm.
I’ve always thought the DeSantis-as-victim slant was odd, but then, I’ve been skeptical since he edged away from Trump after winning primary in FL.
In Jan 2021 #DeSantis2024 cropped up. He didn’t denounce it. I said, there’s no way he’d run… it’d be totally disloyal and an effort to divide MAGA.
And that’s what he was paid to do.
I just wonder when he was hired on.
His history is Obama-esque; no idea about how his sister died or why his parents are absent. Just… very odd. Seems like a plant. Didn’t know he’d ACT like one though
He’s not a victim he sold sea island on his ability to beat trump and fool maga.
Don’t read that into it.
No one spends hundreds of millions of dollars just to destroy a politician who had no chance.
It was a move of desperation against Trump that backfired spectacularly.
Money wasted on an industrial scale.
Please stop with this nonsense that Ron was “the golden child” that was somehow corrupted by the evil money doers. It’s quite the opposite. Ron’s ego and misguided aspirations resulted in his own downfall. Not to mention his RINO tendencies were visible when he was in Congress.
It was more Jill’s/Casey’s ego that egged Ronda on.
How on earth do you know that? Power corrupts. Having absolute power corrupts absolutely. List for power was the only thing ding dong was thinking. Drunk before he had a sip of the wine….
By all means keep giving Ron excuses for his own dismal failure. Note if Ron was that weak kneed and dominated as you imply then he lacked any qualifications for the office he was trying to attain in the first place.
She was very dominating on stage she would start yapping and Ron would sorta shut down and let her prattle on.
You can just hear the hollering and screaming in the governors house!
Hillary 2016 is the worst.
A bushCARTEL, RINOherd & neverTRUMP guaranteed plan of failure … thinking they could USE magaLITE Ron to destroy Trump & MAGA … for a UNIPARTY Trifecta – NOT !!!
They didn’t conspire to destroy Rob, he just showed you who he is and what he really believes. This guy would have gotten blown out in the FL primary without Trump. This guy would have lost to a crack head with a male prostitute problem without Trump. His core support in FL is 20% without MAGA. He sold those billionaire A-Holes on his ability to fool MAGA, he was wrong.
And funded a massive election security push. Total waste.
Sundance wrote: The DeSantis loyalists promise to keep swinging for the fences.
You know the problem with just swinging for the fences? You usually find yourself striking out with nothing to show for the at bat.
Congratulations Meatball. You can now return to Florida and do the job you were elected to do this time last year.
The RINOS in the Florida legislature will eat him alive now.
Meatball has sold his soul, and has no means to purchase it back!
The Marxists will. That’s what we have to watch next.
There’s a naked coked-out Gillum clone just waiting to jump in the South Beach, Orlando, Tampa, and JAX pool.
And, then we have all the never Trump house and Senate people that need to be primaried out. Scott, Rubio, Mario Diaz Ballart,Carlos Gimenez, Scott Franklin, and that just covers SFL.
People are going to friggin’ stay home next time around because of that doucebag RDS.
Not looking good at all.
Rob is no longer welcome in Florida.
Truth!
Yes, but the main reason for swinging for the fence is that the occasional reward is seen as the easiest way to make a living swinging a bat. These days the game is all about strikeouts vs home runs, which is why I don’t spend many days at the ballpark anymore. I still watch the World Series on TV because it takes me back to when I was a boy and baseball was my life. I still want to have that escape now and then.
The deep state coup took out both President Trump and meatball in 2020. He just didn’t know it.
There was nothing to take out! Ron the Con was conning you from the beginning.
Ron DeSantis aligned himself with the neoconservative faction instead of MAGA. The day he made the announcement with Jeb Bush standing behind him was his destruction. That simple observation told viewers Big Club GOPe was in charge. The same club that squashed the Tea Party and gave Barrack Obama the presidency for eight years. I thought Ron was a very good Congressman and Governor of Florida although he had a republican legislature to get things done. What makes anyone think that he, or Any candidate would navigate DC without business as usual. Short answer, no way. He had a golden opportunity to join the movement and aspire to greatness but fell from grace as so many do. Ron DeSantis was a huge disappoint and lesson to everyone that pays attention. Then we have Ronna McRomney, who made it so obvious that President Trump would be sidelined for another term and yet she still Chairs the Big Club. We learned from them about sheep in wolves clothing and I thank them for that.
Sundance has told us that we understand more of what is happening with the deep state politics than any of the politicians in Washington. They are woefully ignorant of who is pulling their strings and the silos of information are so well kept no one sees the whole picture.
No reason to think DeSantis or his donors or his campaign is any smarter about optics than the DC crowd. These people think they can glad hand the public and we will follow them blindly. Their aim is to make money, grab power, not take care of this country.
But times have changed. The sleeping giant is awake and paying attention to their antics.
They should’ve seen it coming after Jeb! crashed and burned. The people want a real leader.No more fakes and phonies and dangling shiny objects in our faces.
I am not sure the sleeping giant has ever been awake, but I hope you are right.
Don’t know about what the people want, but I want statesmen not politicians; representatives not “leaders”.
Ever run for office yourself? It is not for boy scouts or church choir member, and you should know this by now.
What the heck is a “statesman” anyway. Politics is dirty business and we always get the government we deserve.
Politics follows culture .Meditate on this a bit.
“Politics ain’t beanbag”
Politics makes the prostitutes look pure as a wind driven snow.
Everyone forgets he was in Congress for 5 years. Dude was always swamp.
Voted “yea” for the Trans Pacific Partnership bill and its Trans – Atlantic counterpart.
Loomer.
Ron Desantis and birthright citizen Niki Haley are both bought and paid for crooks.
Both want nothing more but to give your SS money to wall street.
Money that is taking from your paycheck all your life
And supposedly saved for your golden years.
These two thieves would like nothing better to reform it as they proclaim.
I have a better solution, the government should return every damn dollar that was stolen from everyone of us who has worked all our lives and where forced to contribute
To the slush fund for DC.
Unfortunately that money is just a bunch of IOUs.
Please name those now on the hook for those IOU’s. You make this sound like a sterile business transaction when we are putting our own kids on the hook to pay off this current Democrat excess. Why are we allowing this to continue.
Pay as you go; no more pay to play
Don’t you read the WSJ? We never earned those funds in the first place (sarc). Prepping the masses for more bad news.
As if the WSJ or any other of that ilk have any more credibility than the “Tattle Rags” at your nearby market check out lane.
Correct.
WSJ – pay for clicks to fake news.
How many news media do we know that are entwined with the government in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest? These so-called journalists need crises to dramatize news. So government officials need to (appear) to be responding to crises.
You mean The Murdock/NewsCorp Journal Propaganda? The print version of Never Trump FUX Snews.
Democrat want you to give your money to the Deep State and their unions.
How about if we just stop giving our money to any of them. Repeal 16th Amendment.
The field is clearing….DeSantis should have waited till 2028….Let Trump do what he needs to do…
DISantis was given bad advice……should be in the holding pen…till AFTER TRUMP.
No DeeeeSinkus….ever. Once a backstabber..always a backstabber. And he turned on a man who had already proven himself as President ..hoping lawfare would take him down.
Yes, he turned on the man who helped him become Governor of Florida. Without Trump’s endorsement, DeSantis would not have won. His campaign at that time was lackluster also.
Wish as you might. It’s over. Desnake is toast…
Thank God he didn’t wait until 2028 as we wouldn’t have seen his true colors and would have voted yet again for a RINO.
……should be in the holding pen…till AFTER TRUMP……..uh……..NO!
Exactly. Desantis showed extremely poor political judgement jumping in too early.
It may have been poor political judgment, but it was very beneficial for the entire country to be able to see what he is, and what he is not.
Nope.
The beauty of President Trump is his ability to uncover the real person behind every facade.
Stop pretending!
This is sad and infurating because the White House was Ron’s for the asking in 2028.
All he had to do was force the party to unite behind Trump.
You are absolutely, 100% correct.👍
That’s only if he was actually the one pulling his strings as Governor.
The things Gov Ron did were done to deceive MAGA, so that he could replace Trump in 2024.
If RonDe actually supported Trump for 2024. And did the things he did, then yes, 2028 would have been a lock.
But reality is he did those things because NeverTrump and self agrandizement.
Frankly, I fear for Florida when Ron decides to back down and return to governing.
That’s right (first sentence).
RDS was nothing and still is nothing without the supermajority in the legislature.
You’re going to watch that fade away.
The damage to Florida is done – highest homeowners and auto insurance in the USA.
Yes. It is horrible here on those two issues. And am told it will get even worse next year.
No matter the circumstances of the current shitshow surrounding DeSantis, he should never be president – he’s not qualified -period.
Compared to what, exactly? Don’t be ridiculous.
A PENCE in high heels…
Well, I upvoted but I think Pence is worse.
JEB!….plain and simple without the guac bowls 🙄.
Trouble is, wanna-be Queen Casey simply could not wait until 2028. Her ever-loving husband has now shown the entire world what happens to a man that is completely controlled and dominated by his wife.
Hen-pecked is not a good look for an aspiring American president.
Or any man ….
He coulda been….a contender
Thank you, Marlon Brando. 😄
Aroma of The Great Marlon Brando………
At least he was exposed now and not after he became Bushobama II.
But thank God President Trump unmasked him and saved us from another Trojan horse!
It is stunning to contemplate the starting point of $269,000,000.00 [and more since] has essentially done nothing except destroy the public image and brand of Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis. No presidential campaign has ever amassed such a proactive funding war chest and blown it to smithereens before the first votes have even taken place.
Jeb! 1.0 $120MM
Jeb! version 2.4 $269MM
The latest version fails to launch.
It’s fun to watch.
Who would ever again hire the principles from this PAC?
I wonder at the economic waste all this political spending entails.
All these people living off of other people and not producing anything other than ads and spin.
And it happens because really wealthy people figure they can get even wealthier by spending that money to buy influence against the people.
All that money could have been invested in business creating jobs that actually produce good things and improve people’s lives.
That’s one way to look at. Another way is to see all that money being flushed down the toilet instead of being used to destroy us. Those who donated to Ron certainly don’t have our best interests at heart!
That is how to view the money spent to thwart these creeps. A necessary expense to stop those who do harm to us. But, even so, it produces nothing. Sort of like building walks around cities.
Representative democracy is hard to make work for the people
Such is the “Service Economy” the crooks touted while they sold off American industry.
The victory here is for MAGA…….whether Desanctimonious was a plant and is playing along in this war to get the establishment to waste their time and money….which they did…….or he was just a fool who took their money and believed in the illusion that he could be President……may not be fully known till Trump is in and the dust settles. But, that dust will not settle soon….even after the election cause we know they will not accept a DJT victory. He is….and we United with him are….an exponential threat to their so called democracy!
I vote for the fool option. De Santis had a great popular election in Florida. He forgot who helped him get there and thought it was all about him.
No one with young children should ever put the WH ahead of their well-being. The DC hot houses destroy young lives.
Almost everyone in the operation in the promotion thereof, are retreads from the failed Ted Cruz campaign of 2016.
As I was reading this, I was so giddy that I miss read the word retread as retard lol.
I’m so TIRED of the fakers, liars and performative BS!
They tried to buy a nomination. Poor Billionaires!
Now they will move on to War Karen AKA: Nimarata.
More wasted money…
How much money is there? It is difficult for a peon like myself to imagine the wealth these people must have to gamble so much on a political hack like DeSantis.
Look how much money our Government politicians give away, steal, and waste. The Defense Department is missing billions in their audit and no one even blinks an eye.
We are going down.
I wonder if Nimrata “Non Grata” will eventually “take down” the Ukraine Battle Flag also? 🤔🙄🤑🤮🤷♂️
Impatience and greed played a significant role in the failure. If, and it is a big if, RDS had been patient, the VP slot could have been his step to the top.
I always thought Ron DeSantis was Billion Dollar Bloomberg 2.0.
I suspect the handlers revamped their business plan after Billion Dollar Bloomberg’s flame-out. I’m sure they thought they had all the bases covered and this would be a cakewalk.
The MSNBC reporter notes that Bloomberg entered the primaries in late 2019 because his polling indicated that Joe Biden was behind Trump in the swing states — states which Biden later ‘won’ in November 2020 by the thinnest of margins.
Above and beyond gaining no traction during the 2020 primaries, Bloomberg and his campaign staff had to have realized by the time he dropped out in March 2020 that the Big Fix was already in for Joe Biden, not only during the primaries but also for the general in November 2020.
I’ve sometimes wondered in hindsight if the $500,000,000 Bloomberg spent on his failed primary campaign was part of a Big Fix psyops game played by Joe Biden’s puppet masters — possibly with Bloomberg’s cooperation — to present the illusion that the Democratic Party’s rank and file had a clear choice in 2020 as to who would be their nominee for the 2020 general.
After announcing he was dropping out, Bloomberg then endorsed Joe Biden. And so if my theory is correct, by running for the nomination in the primaries and then by losing big, Bloomberg put the many millions he had spent to good use for the Democrats through promoting the illusion that Joe Biden had been honestly chosen by the Democratic Party’s voter base as its preferred choice to beat Donald Trump in 2020.
Ron’s campaign has certainly shown two things. Money can’t buy you love and the establishment does not care what we think or who we would like for or leadership! They just don’t care and don’t want to listen.
SEIU and the teachers unions don’t care either, when they select their DNC candidate. Which is why SEIU members should nt be running most county election offices in this country. Too tainted to ensure zero tolerance elections.
One wonders if the actual intent was to damage DeSantis because (but not because of) Florida was blue and is now red. Communists are like locusts and they flood an area (ex – Georgia, metro Atlanta) to turn it into their favour.
Other ways are like what we see here with DeSantis. I’m not saying he’s innocent, because he bought into it hook, line, and sinker, but this could be a sign of aligning yourselves with the professional political class. They’re on their own side and have loyalty to none but themselves.
Ronda is not a naive political neophyte, he spent 6 years on Capitol Hill.
Consider the question …. Have the PAC funds really been spent??
A Smaller Case in point is the “campaign fund” of TX Politician Beto O’Rourke.
He collected $10’s of millions, mainly from out of state sources and he conducted 3-failed campaigns but most of the money still exists. It is being used by the TX DNC and National DNC. Plus, Beto still gets to draw off it “for campaign expenses” or “donate” to other worthy democrats. It is essentially another under the radar pool of TAX FREE money.
Ron DeSantis was never going any where near the White House as he was either too MAGA (friend of President Trump) at one time and then became a fallen from grace MAGA today. He was a means to create a cash pool. Then there is the stress and strain of the political spot light on his frail, cancer survivor wife that weighs on the situation (for all his good and bad, Ron does care for her). Publicly, Ron D’s heart was never in the campaign … his physical posture and actions make it obvious, it was all an act.
Now the question remains … who’s TAX FREE cash pool??
Of course Ron D will get to siphon off some of the money as a candidate and employee of the PAC but that still leaves well over $200+ Million to use.
Karl Rove, Jeff Roe, Christina Pushaw, and any number of the “political consulting class”hack leeches that maintain their elite “cocktail/dinner party circle” lifestyle on the backs of fools like RON! every election year.
There’s where the created “PAC” monies go.
Never happened yesterday.
The leader of Ron’s Never Back Down PAC backed down yesterday.
Ron’s troubles remain here to stay.
Oh when will Ron just go away.
(With a nod to “Yesterday”. Didn’t Ron’s troubles seem so far away?
But Sundance knew better.)
Ron DeSantis didn’t need any help destroying his political future. For many of us, it ended before it started when SD pointed out that Ron went silent after the Miralago raid. It only got worse from there. The cherry on top was when Ron, in perfect Hillary style, mocked Trump for saying he won the election.
Ron destroyed himself by showing us what he is: a sell-out and, imo, completely lacking in personal integrity. They can pull him out of mothballs in 5-10 years and repackage him but I will never vote for him.
https://x.com/LibbeyDean_/status/1735752077366775936?s=20
^^^^^^^
🎯
One’s campaign is in trouble when your boot maker is on a media tour.
Hopefully his failed campaign didn’t do any harm to Florida voting for Trump and their 30 electoral votes.
All the money in the world cannot buy votes if the messenger and message are simply wrong. I don’t hold it against desantis to take a run at the WH. But the denial of the political reality is astonishing. Spending 100 million and then folding the tent. No shame there. But 270 million. Lol.
Go Mr. T. MAGA!
It’s sort of like when a conglomerate buys out a competitor and then destroys it.
It was always the man and not the money that was the problem. Bottom line is the old adage that you can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
Never thought Jeb would be deposed.
On the bright side, It was a money maker for some…They blew a pretty big load …of money. Some had to have made a pretty good grift of it.
it’s way past time for Rob and Jill to resign…
Ronnie,
Machiavelli said : The ends justify the means !
However, you along with your “Crew/PAC” has changed it to The means justify the END !
Nice job Ronnie ! Now, it is your time to 1) end your campaign, then 2) return to FL ….
Reflect on this experience then think/reconsider …. 2032/36/40 runs !
Good Riddance !
I believe the GOPe are desperate to protect the US Dollar and therefore themselves from weakening to the point that it is no longer the world’s standard currency. I can’t believe what they are willing to do alongside the Demcommies in order to save the worldwide value of our currency. It is as if being the preferred currency of the wealthiest and most industrious nation on earth is not a large enough pot of gold for them to enjoy. They have a marketplace of over 330 million people backing them and they are afraid they can’t make enough to support their Big Party.
I am also sure that the Demcommies want to destroy our currency so that they can put themselves in charge of their politically controllable digital currency, which they believe is the precursor to the end of money as a medium of exchange. All of this means the USA is on the wrong track and headed to a terrible derailment of everything that made our marketplace preeminent in the history of the world.
We all gonna be on the wrong side of the big moat in Sundance’s favorite meme picture. We will have our own market economy, which will resemble a Church Bazaar so that we can barter with each other for the necessities of life. Just my take on what I see happening in the real world, and I hope to God that I am wrong.
Why does DeSantis bother to stay in the race? Are people seriously telling him he’s going to be the nominee once Orange Man Bad is convicted of something and tossed in jail?
Why does Ron DeSantis bother to stay in the race? Because he is a puppet and will not be leaving the stage unless and until his GOPe puppet masters decide it’s time for their Ron doll marionette to leave the stage. In any case, he is undoubtedly being well compensated for his services.
Another question …. why does Nikki Haley stay in the race? Because she is a puppet and will not be leaving the stage unless and until her GOPe puppet masters decide it’s time for their Nikki doll marionette to leave the stage. In any case, she is undoubtedly being well compensated for her services.
My prediction remains that the GOPe will keep Ron and Nikki waiting in the wings throughout the spring and summer of 2024 while they carry out their various alternative Plan B’s for preventing Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination.
Yep. Puppet masters in dc controlled by their puppet donar masters controlled by the evil one puppet master whose end is the lake of fire.
Another DeSantis issue that Dan Bongino will ignore.
When will WaPo di a similiar piece on the Joe Biden White House?
Who’s running the place?
Perot Conservative: “When will WaPo do a similiar piece on the Joe Biden White House? Who’s running the place?”
The same people who run the Joe Biden White House run the Washington Post, and vice versa. (It’s all a matter of vice versus ethics, don’t you know.)
Haha. Jeb! 2.0
Trump wants to enrich the country.
Ron wants to enrich himself.
God curses the selfish.
Shouldn’t that be presidential candidate Rob DeSantis?
Sad to the 10th power
GOPe RON! Jill Casey (in their best Hilldawg voice) “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?”
MAGA America fFirst Voters “Because Donald Trump is you idiot.”
If he only remained loyal to Trump he could have been a somebody.
DeSantis is an idiot. Imagine if he had sat this election cycle out and had just been a Trump supporter. He’d already be the 2028 frontrunner by a mile. Haley would’ve gone down to defeat in 2024 and would’ve been an obvious VP pick for DeSantis. Now, he’s destroyed his political capital and might even blow it in his own Governor race. Idiot.
I think it’s even worse than that. If he had sat this out and been the governor of Florida like he promised his voters during the campaign, he’d be an easy win for one of the two FL Senate seats.
The Senate is the big club where you grow roots, influence, and get filthy stinking rich over decades. Now he’s a total road-apple and his political career is over. He could never get reelected in FL for anything.
DeSantis and the people close to him are idiots, like you said. Someday boot-boy will figure it all out.
In all honesty, DeSantis never had a chance. Once again, Donald Trump gets badly underestimated by the “experts.”
that $269M went somewhere. These professional campaign whores make their money attaching themselves to heavily funded candidates, not successful campaigns. Failure is a badge of honor amongst the establishment GOPe crowd. Wash-Spin-Repeat.
Watch how many of these termites try to tunnel their way into the Trump campaign. More than you think will be successful at the effort.
I can’t help but feel schadenfreude! Good riddance!
Not sure if that pouty, sulky DeSantis demeanor is helping him, either.
It didn’t help Liz Cheney.
Correction: Always Back Down
Ronnie’s behavior may actually put the governor seat in jeopardy next time the Florida voters come out.
I blame Trump for showing me how bad and corrupt the Bushes, Romneys and Cheneys were. I was perfectfully content watching America go to hell, but after 2016, Trump gave me hope that America could once become great again. Now he is facing jail time and possible assanation for his selfless devotion to his country. He has the spirit and fight of a Founding Father. Yes, I blame Trump for giving me hope in America’s future.
Now it is time to defeather birdbrain feather by feather.
Either these people are delusional or they truly do live in a bubble of denial. Either way, what a colossal waste of money. It could’ve done so much good elsewhere.
Roe is a canker sore…. how does that idiot still get hired