The chairman of Never Back Down, the most prominent super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign, has resigned.
Adam Laxalt, who ran unsuccessfully for one of Nevada’s U.S. Senate seats in 2022, resigned as the group’s president on Nov. 26, four days after the super PAC’s executive director abruptly resigned, a source confirmed. to The Post.
“After nearly 26 consecutive months of being on a large-scale campaign, I need to return my time and attention to my family and my law practice,” Laxalt wrote in a letter to Never Back Down’s board of directors, according to the New York Times . Times.
Laxalt, who is also a former Nevada attorney general and a friend and former roommate of DeSantis, noted that he is still committed to the Florida governor becoming president, according to the outlet.
Laxalt joined Never Back Down in April. He was previously a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and served as the former commander in chief’s campaign co-chairman in Nevada.
“I don’t see a path for him to win Nevada in a general election,” Laxalt said of Trump in June.
Laxalt submitted his letter of resignation to the Never Back Down board of directors on November 26. Getty Images
“Those voters are not coming back,” he added, pointing to Trump’s two narrow losses in the Silver State in 2016 and 2020.
Trump endorsed Laxalt’s 2022 Senate bid.
His resignation comes amid a period of great turmoil at Never Back Down.
The super PAC’s former CEO, Chris Jankowski, resigned just days after a fight nearly broke out at one of the group’s strategy meetings last month.
Scott Wagner, a Never Back Down board member and DeSantis confidant, reportedly had to be physically restrained from pursuing one of the group’s political consultants, Jeff Roe, founder of Axiom Strategies, during an argument. focused on countering the rise of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. popularity.
“Never Back Down’s primary goal and sole focus has been to elect Gov. Ron DeSantis as president,” Jankowski said in a statement at the time. “Given the current environment, it has become unsustainable for me to meet the shared objective and that goes far beyond a difference of strategic opinion.”
Laxalt is a close friend of DeSantis and his former roommate. ERIK S MENOR/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Florida’s governor and his wife, Casey DeSantis, are increasingly frustrated with Never Back Down’s leadership, according to multiple reports.
The super PAC is no longer running ads in Iowa amid concerns that voters are too easily connecting Never Back Down to DeSantis and its ads are actually hurting the governor, according to reports.
At the couple’s urging, a new DeSantis-aligned super PAC, Fight Right Inc., was launched last month. The group received $1 million in funding from Never Back Down, a move criticized as “extremely objectionable” by the group’s director, former Trump administration official Ken Cuccinelli, according to NBC News.
DeSantis was in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday courting potential donors to Fight Right, according to the New York Times.
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