DeSantis PAC Head Quits After Near Brawl In Meeting

The New York Times reports:

Chris Jankowski, the chief executive of Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid, resigned on Wednesday, following the creation of a new outside group supporting Mr. DeSantis and publicly aired infighting among his allies. The departure came after days of internal tensions within Never Back Down, which along with the DeSantis campaign has repeatedly pressed the boundaries of what super PACs usually do.

Presidential campaigns are legally barred from coordinating with super PACs. The Never Back Down super PAC has been paying for some of the candidate’s travel and attempting to build a field operation across the country and in three of the early voting states. Mr. DeSantis routinely appears at fund-raisers coordinated by the super PAC and has traveled across Iowa on a super PAC-funded bus attending super PAC events as a “special guest.”

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