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Edward Helmore and agencies

DeSantis political woes deepen after chief strategist for Super Pac resigns

Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at a Never Back Down campaign stop in Concord, New Hampshire, on Friday.
The Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks at a Never Back Down campaign stop in Concord, New Hampshire, on Friday. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Ron DeSantis’s political woes have deepened further in the wake of the surprise resignation of a chief strategist at a leading campaign fund dealing yet another blow to the rightwing Florida governor’s rapidly waning 2024 presidential hopes.

Jeff Roe, the chief strategist for the DeSantis-backing Super Pac Never Back Down, said he was stepping down from the $269m fund that was billed as a novel application of campaign finance laws that prevent the integration of a Pac and its spending with a candidate’s campaign.

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