Marc Caputo: “In the history of presidential elections, no political action committee launched with so much promise, burned through so much money, and failed with so much spectacular acrimony as Never Back Down.”
“The super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised $145 million and spent 90 percent of it between its February 2023 launch and the end of the year—devolving into a horror show of shakeups, terrible headlines, and political discord along the way.”
“The bitterness was so bad there was talk of a ‘mutiny.’ During an argument over hard-to-trace ‘dark money‘ from the nation’s top conservative judicial activist, one board member threatened a consultant that ‘I’ll permanently fuck up your biorhythms.'”
“In another tense moment, board chairman and former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt said people in Never Back Down might have illegally burned through a federal firewall between super PACs and federal campaigns.”
Said Laxalt: “I hope you like orange.”
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