This is kind of a funny and very real political story if you follow the mechanics of it. Essentially, it starts out with Politico noting the Ron DeSantis’ Super PAC Never Back Down, paid the Club for Growth Super PAC, Win It Back, $2.75 million dollars to run attack ads against Donald Trump. {Background Story}
Apparently, Ron DeSantis didn’t want to attack Trump directly, so using the Machiavellian tactics the professionally Republican group is known for, DeSantis funded a third-party to attack Trump on his behalf. A lot of people take issue with this discovery, but the story is actually deeper, and yes, even more Machiavellian.
You see, you might remember the DeSantis Super PAC was actually funded from the remaining campaign funds of Ron DeSantis in 2022. This was done with forethought and by specific design. This part is even noted in the Politico outline. However, what is missing is the other layer. The DeSantis campaign was funded with $20 million by the Republican Governors Association (RGA). That is a big part of the money that was later transferred to the super PAC.
So put this in context, because this is the non-pretending reality that was built into the program.
The RGA gives DeSantis $20 million in 2022 knowing it will be transferred into his presidential campaign super PAC in 2023. A part of that money – $2.75 million – is then sent to the Club for Growth (C4G). The Club for Growth then attacks Donald Trump. In essence, the Republican Governors Association funded the attack against Trump using DeSantis as the broker. Three layers of plausible deniability built in.
Now, ask yourself, who exactly does the RGA support? What is the goal and intent of this “approved Republican” political system that operates in the background of our national politics? When you answer those questions, you realize why the RNC has no support from Republican base voters.
The systems of the RNC and RGA are not about supporting “Republican” politics; these institutional systems, like the RGA and RNC, are entirely focused on retaining the business model that exists within DC and the UniParty assembly. Club for Growth is simply a K-Street political lobbying firm with the intention of paying for policy they create.
Not only did Ron DeSantis support the attacks against Donald Trump, but his campaign also financed those attacks in common alignment with the RGA, RNC and Club for Growth. This is a great example of the “illusion of choice” we have often discussed.
Tell me again about this magnanimous and manufactured political hero called Ron DeSantis…lolol. Now, do you see what I meant:
The Ron DeSantis campaign was built upon a foundation of fraud. Long planned as an effort to destroy the threat that MAGA represents to the Republican apparatus, nothing about the DeSantis campaign was grassroots, authentic, natural or real. The Sea Island organized campaign was a specific and detailed approach driven by the professional political class. Ron DeSantis was a vessel, a willing vessel, for the deliberate schemes and Machiavellian intents of the worst elements in USA Republican politics.
WE CANNOT UNITE with that group. Think about it.
Supporters of Ron DeSantis either knew of the Never Trump intents, or they were not smart enough to see the supernova flares of manipulation that were triggered from the outset. Either way, cunning or stupid, I do not want to camp with them. It is what it is. (MORE)
It is worthwhile revisiting the outcome from this collaboration as we discussed in 2023:
It is important, VERY IMPORTANT, to remember the Club for Growth (CfG) is the Ron DeSantis career financial vehicle {GO DEEP}. Ever since his first steps into Congress, CfG has been the primary financial sponsor for the now Florida Governor. There is no moment in the political career of DeSantis where CfG does not exist.
While the DeSantis Super PAC Never Back Down is the mechanics of the DeSantis election strategy, CfG is the well invested advising side, and David McIntosh has been the source of DeSantis’ career guidance for a decade. That’s how intrinsically connected Club for Growth is to Ron and Casey DeSantis.
CfG has also opposed Donald Trump for his “America First” economic plan from the moment they realized Trump was serious about economic nationalism, control over immigration, a renewal of the American manufacturing sector, balanced trade and reciprocal tariffs. All of these policy points are against the interests of McIntosh and the larger Club for Growth agenda. The CfG has been working against Trump since 2016.
That is the appropriate context for a memo written by David McIntosh to those who fund Club for Growth, as reported by the New York Times. McIntosh writes a brutally honest letter to the professionally Republican donor class, saying all of their efforts against Trump have been futile, and there is no effective strategy that will break the bond the American middle class voter has with President Donald Trump.
(New York Times) – A well-funded group of anti-Trump conservatives has sent its donors a remarkably candid memo that reveals how resilient former President Donald J. Trump has been against millions of dollars of negative ads the group deployed against him in two early-voting states.
The political action committee, called Win It Back, has close ties to the influential fiscally conservative group Club for Growth. It has already spent more than $4 million trying to lower Mr. Trump’s support among Republican voters in Iowa and nearly $2 million more trying to damage him in South Carolina.
But in the memo — dated Thursday and obtained by The New York Times — the head of Win It Back PAC, David McIntosh, acknowledges to donors that after extensive testing of more than 40 anti-Trump television ads, “all attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective.”
[…] “Even when you show video to Republican primary voters — with complete context — of President Trump saying something otherwise objectionable to primary voters, they find a way to rationalize and dismiss it,” Mr. McIntosh states in the “key learnings” section of the memo.
“Every traditional postproduction ad attacking President Trump either backfired or produced no impact on his ballot support and favorability,” Mr. McIntosh adds. “This includes ads that primarily feature video of him saying liberal or stupid comments from his own mouth.”
[…] The memo says this of Win It Back’s most promising pandemic-themed ad: “This ad was our best creative on the pandemic and vaccines that we tested in focus group settings, but it still produced a backlash in our online randomized controlled experiment — improving President Trump’s ballot support by four points and net favorability by 11 points.”
Win It Back did not bother running ads focused on Mr. Trump as an instigator of political violence or as a threat to democracy. The group tested in a focus group and online panel an ad called “Risk,” narrated by former Representative Liz Cheney, that focused on Mr. Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021. But the group found that the Cheney ad helped Mr. Trump with the Republican voters, according to Mr. McIntosh. (read more)
The Sea Island Group
Ron DeSantis
Never Back Down PAC
David Macintosh
Win it Back PAC
Club for Growth
Republican Governors Association
Republican National Committee
…. Yes, MAGA crushed them all, using Donald J. Trump as our weapon.
We ain’t done yet.
Have an awesome day!
Marco Rubio – ‘Watch this everyone’.
Ron DeSantis – Hold my beer.
Michelle Obama- You ever seen a dude shotgun three beers while swinging there pipe roundy in circles? You about to, start filming.
President Trump, My heart goes out to you for what you are going threw and I know that no matter what YOU are going to come threw this bull crap . I thought that Haley might have Desantis behind her egging her on and maybe now that Creep
will go away and shut the heck up.. guess you will have to find another nick name for the slim bag He does need one that is not so nice as the last one We are here for you and always will be.. Take care rest and take care of self please
The GOP establishment tried to pull a fast one by presenting DeSwampis as a conservative with MAGA leanings. The rank and file Republican voter is too smart for these weasels and they forced their little puppet out of the race. He will never be a serious presidential candidate ever again!
And wouldn’t trust him for any political position. He revealed what he is
It’s kind of like hiring a law firm to hire a media consultant to hire an British ex-spy to hire some Russians to cook up an entirely falsified dossier to target Trump. Or maybe it’s kind of like having your son and brother set up 20 shell corporations to hire some minions to take in bribery payments from enemy foreign governments. I wonder where RDS got the idea?
✅️Exactly 💯 Gulag escapee.
👉Same playbook, same plays regardless of the names using the playbook.👈
Outstanding
Has the makings of a good novel….Tom Clancy style…
Make a connection to the border its a Clear and Present Danger
Ain’t it funny home a good book turns on the reader’s PRETENDING switch. In general, Americans are such fools.
everyone in dc is doing it. the tranny fbi cant seem to crack the code in between their bouts of dick tag.
Most excellent crib notes to give to people who are still pretending.
A Willing and Listless Vessel. Vapid. Void of any charm.
Exclusive: Here’s audio from the secret DeSantis ‘24 debriefing to donors
By FloridaPolitics
https://m.soundcloud.com/phil-ammann-1/leaked-audio-from-desantis-donor-retreat
Rush tried to warn these people.
Dang
No one believes anything from the media anymore after the Russian and Covid hoaxes.
Attack ads don’t work because of the same reasons.
Dems/media overplayed everything daily with exaggerated lies. We finally caught on. Thank God!!!
I learned so much how we are lied to and manipulated since 2016. Thank God!!! Thank Trump! He exposed it all… and they exposed themselves.
trump triggered them so badly, they were unable to maintain the disguise.
China, China, China 😀
I agree with SOMEONE but a new crop of YOUTH who know very little, emerge into society each spring with graduation from some kind of high school or college. They bring as much ignorance into play and when added to the ignorance of the common illegal immigrant, we are SUNK. The rich and famous will perish with us by playing this game of dumbing down our population.
I agree with SOMEONE but a new crop of YOUTH who know very little, emerge into society each spring with graduation from some kind of high school or college. They bring as much ignorance into play and when added to the ignorance of the common illegal immigrant, we are SUNK. The rich and famous will perish with us by playing this game of dumbing down our population.
HIDE and watch…be prepared. Many have already abandoned their families who have tried to teach them better.
Here’s the “Risk” video that helped Trump,
Rob Smith of DeSantis influencer photo fame?
Welcome!
Liz… honey… you can love the lie but the lie will never love you back.
Lies, more lies and absolute BULLSH!T !!!! We the people see right through ALL of it !!
Her voice makes my skin crawl. 🤮
Seems Ron had a big big responsibility to not allow the federal government from raiding Mar Lago.
It did not happen without Florida’s approval.
It is not a wonder why President trump does not trust DeSantis. Neither do I.
Fed, state, county, city…and probably Tribal (Seminoles?)….
Ron is done!
The leanings of Government, ANY Government, are first and foremost, self-serving. Oh, they’ll throw us an ocasional apple core but it will be browning by the time we get it. It’s the nature of power to be selfish. Ever try to pull a plug out of an older socket and feel the resistance of being disengaged? It doesn’t like not being in hooked up. There in lies the problem.
PDJT runs on a different energy. I’m 71 and in all my years voting, I’ve never seen anything like it. He doesn’t give a crap, he says what he means and means what he says…full stop. The press try to trip him up, but mostly walk away scratching their heads (or elsewhere) and do the exact same thing at another venue resulting in the exact same itch!
Isn’t that the definition of insanity?
“The memo says this of Win It Back’s most promising pandemic-themed ad: “This ad was our best creative on the pandemic and vaccines that we tested in focus group settings, but it still produced a backlash in our online randomized controlled experiment — improving President Trump’s ballot support by four points and net favorability by 11 points.”
“best creative” – now THAT is damn funny!! Creativity is most definitely not a hallmark of the uniTards – and actually trying to go after PDJT for the “pandemic and vaccines” is the epitome of stupidity in light of the broad and deep pool of evidence about everything that actually occurred.
I remember watching a David Copperfield magic show on TV when I was a boy. His magic to “include the home audience” is an illusion of choice. My 7yr old spotted it on the first replay. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Maybe their next PAC should be called We Hate America.
Sundance, Thank God for ppl like yourself. You are a bulldog investigator and keep me utterly amazed about how much I know nothing about. I have a sense of things, like DeSantis “not being right,” somehow. It is obvious Haley is BSing with Bad Money behind her, but who am I to know or find out about WHO are those entities, individuals. I’ve got too much else going on in my life to devote to such study. Thank God you are on our side.
And you know what else? F***WADC ELITES. WE ARE THE PEOPLE.
Bruce Rauner, single “individual” donor sure explains how he ‘got things done for IL residents/sarc…
…never did much of anything for IL and paved the way for Pritzker…it has also been reported that Rauner got out of Dodge and moved to Florida…
sometimes tou just suck so badly and are so wrong, that all the money in the world can’t do a damn thing for you. just ask cankles. she knows.
Excuse my naïveté, but who heads the RGA, or what does it consist of? Is this something where all Republican Governors meet and vote (doubtful) or something like the RNC where it is headed by some elite group that is funded and makes its own decisions independently??
The RGA is a fund raising group that works to raise funds nationally to support state governor races. So it is kind of at the interface between federal campaign finance law and state campaign finance law. Suspect the main idea is to get around state law. I assume it’s like RNC with a nominal board but an executive committee that runs things. With all these things you have direct support (with limits) committee and independent expenditures committees (super PAC) that since Buckley v Valeo (1976) have 1st amendment rights and no limits, but have to provide spoken and written disclaimers on advertising. These independent expenditure committees can give money back-and-forth all they want.
Note that federal law pre-empts state law, so Senator and US House race campaign finance differs from governor (and other state elected officials).
I miss being a kid, with no cares in this world, watching Godzilla destroy Tokyo on Saturday afternoons.
A word of caution: should Haley get thumped in the South Carolina primary … yet still remain in the race, I fear that she has been told that at some point further down the road, her path will be cleared of obstacles. God bless and protect, President Trump. Trillions are at stake.
MAGA is much bigger than the Tea Party ever thought of being! The professional republicans are getting nervous!
Note to future political aspirants: If you play with the Big Guys, they will use you, crush you, and then toss you.
Ron – you should have known better.
SUPER PAC..it appears that everyday we read about what some SUPER PAC has done. They were created to get around normal donations on behalf of a candidate. Now, they are nothing more than another “nation” within our own nation and wield power beyond what our founding fathers did not want to happen.
Between the work of the LOBBYIST and the work of SUPER PACS, our country has sunk to 3rd world status. Tell it like it is, please and let’s stop PRETENDING we are still a nation based on the Constitution and laws that punish criminals and keep us safe.
Per Buckley v Valeo (1976) political speech is first amendment speech, and you have the freedom of association to get together to provide that speech. But if you want a government that controls what you can say and when you can say it, I think there is a party for you. Campaign finance didn’t exist until Watergate, so I don’t think the founders had an interest one way or the other. Parties then generally owned newspapers which put out their policy.
MAGA
Press on, press on, press on!
All the old fools and their old tools no longer work. Main Stream Media doesn’t Matter and the GOPe PACs and donors look like mad hatters.
“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
“Every traditional postproduction ad attacking President Trump either backfired or produced no impact on his ballot support and favorability,” Mr. McIntosh adds.
That’s because every “ad” they make lies, just like the people associated with them.
“This includes ads that primarily feature video of him saying liberal or stupid comments from his own mouth.”
Liberal or “stupid” stuff to evil demented people = truth and strength to um, people who are or are not “normal,” depending on what Nimrata calls us next.
MAGA !!! 👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️
Every time I read something on DeSantes, I can’t get the image of him cobbling across stage in his lifter cowboy boots. He’s a pathetic little man.
So they falsely accuse T of insurrection, the worst, then real estate bank fraud or whatever that was / is, then touching some scary ugly skinny liberal some day maybe decades ago, I think the year let alone the day couldn’t be recalled.
I don’t think if you want people to believe your outlandish lies, you start with the worst. It’s like immediately showing them you have no boundaries. So, where people might usually hear an accusation and think, ‘who would lie about that,’ for every accusation after it’s a reminder you would.
Whoever’s idea it was to make the Emergency an Insurrection, thank you 🙂
Robert T Bigelow $10,000,000; I thinbk that that guy has CIA tattooed on his forehead.
If the CFG and GOP Inc. types cannot break the bond between Trump and middle class voters, the only remaining avenue for them is to BREAK THE MIDDLE CLASS.
It would be nice if those corporate whores would actually take on the Democrats. I assume they want America to survive.
Desantis is nothing but a person who hogs the limelight, When he was on the campaign trail and several bad things happened in Florida He never bothered to go there and help them at all, He now is sending his NG to Texas to help and so again this is just one more Photo op for him and another way to put himself in the limelight
glad that he is helping Texas but He should have also been on the job he was elected to do when Florida was in trouble
The gov is so bad that the majority see trump as a dude that is persecuted – even when he’s wrong. There’s nothing you can say bc most people will reflexively think “oh they’re just trying to unfairly take him down again.” He has been essentially martyred and is bulletproof now. There’s nothing that can bring him down – any attempt to brings him up. And everyone knows it.
So…if I was trying to learn about the republican party platform, would any of this information be helpful. GOP/RNC need to get their ship in one sock, here. No more money fights, instead, impress me, show me, teach me how voting republican is a superior choice to voting for democrats or independents or the green party or socialists or whatever. No more ad hominems, step up and strut your stuff, tell me how republicans can address issues and take on probems we are reading about in the news and win the day.