DeSantis PAC Leaders Get Into Near Brawl Over Money

NBC News reports:

Leaders of Ron DeSantis’ Never Back Down super PAC met privately last Tuesday to hash out a strategy for fighting Nikki Haley’s rise in the polls. Instead, two of them nearly came to blows.

Jeff Roe, the top consultant for the super PAC, got into a heated argument with longtime DeSantis confidant Scott Wagner while a small group of nine board members and senior staff were discussing budgeting.

“You have a stick up your a–, Scott,” Roe fumed at Wagner, who is a member of the Never Back Down board. “Why don’t you come over here and get it?” Wagner responded, rising from his chair. He was quickly restrained by two fellow board members.

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The near fistfight comes in the wake of the formation of a second PAC named Fight Right after DeSantis and his wife blamed Never Back Down for his poor showing in the polls.

The fight is fun, but the part that matters in this story is way deep in – an email in which a senior official describes the manner in which money is being shifted to a new group as “objectionable” https://t.co/mH1ZRt2JpC

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 21, 2023