It has been 60 days since Jeff Roe, the controversial leading man in Ron DeSantis’s ‘Never Back Down’ super PAC, told donors the Florida Governor had to start beating Trump within “the next 60 days” while begging for $50 million. Far from overtaking the former president, he has now fallen significantly further behind.
Team Trump has been counting down Roe’s self-imposed deadline for weeks, and observed on Monday that DeSantis “trailed President Trump by 33 points with 21 percent support” when he first announced but “millions of dollars later” trails Trump by 47 points, falling to “an embarrassing 12 percent support.”
Far from attempting to pretend Roe’s deadline never existed, however, DeSantis’s “rapid response director” Christina Pushaw chose to highlight Trump campaign posts pointing out the Floridian’s failure, claiming it as evidence her team “broke them”.
Her boss, however, disagreed. DeSantis told reporters the deadline wasn’t a “very smart thing to do,” and tried to distance himself from his own PAC’s messaging.
“[Jeff Roe’s] not my adviser, and they do what they want to do. I think that that’s fine. I don’t think very many people think that that was a very smart thing to do with whatever was going on with that.”
– Ron DeSantis, October 2023.
While some DeSantis diehards joined in the bizarre defeat lap, others were unconvinced, with one social media noting the Tallahassee team “can’t even break 20 percent in the polls.”
Guys, I think we broke them #MELTDOWN pic.twitter.com/4d1EM2aFEM
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) October 23, 2023
