This is not a campaign bringing in enthusiastic volunteers; it’s a supposedly independent political entity paying doorknockers to gin up support for one candidate.
About the only thing going right so far for Ron DeSantis in his neophyte presidential campaign is the money. But the way he is pulling it in is legally dubious, to say the least: The GOP presidential hopeful appears to be pioneering all sorts of ways to flout federal campaign finance law, both to goose his coffers and to allow his supposedly independent super PAC to run core elements of his campaign. The most glaring example? Using $82.
The super PAC supporting DeSantis’s national bid for president is the Never Back Down PAC: It is already organizing events for DeSantis on the campaign trail And it is structuring, staffing, and building out an entire ground game operation on DeSantis’s behalf, something seemingly unprecedented in a presidential primary.
The most unprecedented thing, though—and this is where it goes from definitely unsavory and clearly in violation of the spirit of campaign finance law to possible actual transgression—is that transfer of $82.5 million from a state super PAC to DeSantis’s national super PAC.Candidates are not allowed to take money raised by a state level organization and spend it on federal races.
, a watchdog group, the transfer marks an $82.495 million violation of the $5,000 campaign contribution limit.DeSantis’s role model in this money transfer is not Fiorina, but Republican congressman and fellow Floridian Byron Donalds. When Donalds ran for Congress in 2020, he resigned from the state committee associated with his time in the Florida state house.
For the record, a deadlock decision does not mean the act is legal. But the DeSantis campaign took Donalds’s case as a model, and supercharged it. While Donalds’s defense hinged on the notion that he resigned the state level committee before he had made any clear intention that he was running for federal office, DeSantis dispensed with that pretense altogether.
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