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“Ron DeSantis” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I Guess He Will Back Down

Turns out there is an easy way out.

Steven L. Taylor
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“Ron DeSantis” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Via the NYT: DeSantis Super PAC C.E.O. Resigns.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s political orbit confronted fresh upheaval on the eve of Thanksgiving as the chief executive of the super PAC that has effectively taken over his presidential campaign resigned after days of infighting among DeSantis allies over strategy, financing and how to blunt the momentum of one of his rivals, Nikki Haley.

That chief executive, Chris Jankowski, sent a resignation note on Wednesday to the board of Never Back Down, which has been the main pro-DeSantis super PAC. The resignation was effective immediately. In a statement from Mr. Jankowski issued by the group, he described his differences with them as “well beyond a difference of strategic opinion.”

He didn’t stand his ground.

While this is a further example of the general dsyfunciton of the DeSantis campaign, I must confess that I mostly blogged this for the references.

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9 responses to “I Guess He Will Back Down”

  1. Michael Reynolds Avatar
    Michael Reynolds

    In this scenario, where exactly are the gates of Hell?

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  2. Andy Avatar
    Andy

    I was one of those predicting that DeSantis would do much better than he’s doing based on his starting fundamentals. But he really has taken what would normally be a good starting hand and pursued a very bizarre and stupid campaign strategy and augered in.

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  3. Flat Earth Luddite Avatar
    Flat Earth Luddite

    @Michael Reynolds:

    3 exits back. Next exit 5th circle.

    @Andy:

    Scenario: WPT showing semifinals table. The cameras zoom in showing everyone but DeSantis has high probability hands. DeSantis is holding a pair of treys.

    DeSantis… Hmmm, I know what I’ll do. All in!

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  4. Michael Reynolds Avatar
    Michael Reynolds

    @Andy:
    But we’ll always have the memory of his warm smile.

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  5. Argon Avatar
    Argon

    Good thing to learn how well the PAC and the DeSantis campaign organizations have been managing to not coordinate with each other. They could’ve been in a world of legal trouble otherwise, dealing with the most rigorously enforced law of campaign finance.

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  6. Andy Avatar
    Andy

    @Michael Reynolds:

    LOL!

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  7. Ken_L Avatar
    Ken_L

    In another stunningly tone deaf move, DeSantis has boasted of being endorsed by Jenna Ellis – a woman cordially loathed as a traitor by the Trump cultists whose support he is trying to attract.

  8. Barry Avatar
    Barry

    @Andy: “I was one of those predicting that DeSantis would do much better than he’s doing based on his starting fundamentals. But he really has taken what would normally be a good starting hand and pursued a very bizarre and stupid campaign strategy and augered in.”

    IMHO, he was always had a bad hand. His theme would be ‘all of the evil, none of the drama, and competent’.

    The first problem was that the GOP wanted the evil *and* the drama, and did not know or care about competency. That would be Trump, the known evil whom they loved.

    The second was that his plan (to me) was to draft behind Trump, waiting for him to crash and burn. In other words, do like Cruz in 2016. Trump, like in 2016, has not crashed and burned. Also like in 2016, Trump was acutely aware of who was #2, and slagged him. DeSantis, for reasons known only to his namesake, had *zero* idea of how to deal with this. I really don’t think he even thought about it.

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  9. dazedandconfused Avatar
    dazedandconfused

    @Michael Reynolds:

    Catty, but fun.

    Daily Show.

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