The CEO of DeSantis’ Top Super PAC Has Resigned.

Things are continuing to spiral.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readNov 25, 2023
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It’s become fairly obvious to anyone following politics that things have not exactly gone well for Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. The campaign felt over before it even began, and has been spiraling ever since. Tensions have been growing within his inner circle and of course, they’ve now reached a boiling point.

The CEO of his top super PAC has resigned.

Hannah Knowles and Josh Dawsey with The Washington Post writes:

“The chief executive of Never Back Down, the primary super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid, resigned on Wednesday amid increasingly public tensions over strategy that spilled out anew after close DeSantis allies created a new outside group to run ads.

“Never Back Down’s main goal and sole focus has been to elect Governor Ron DeSantis as President,” the CEO, Chris Jankowski, said in a statement. “Given the current environment it has become untenable for me to deliver on the shared goal and that goes well beyond a difference of strategic opinion.”

Never Back Down, which as a super PAC can raise unlimited donations, has played an unusually large role in the Florida governor’s White House bid, taking over activities traditionally…

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Lauren Elizabeth

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