A super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential run has ended door-knocking efforts in one key early-voting primary state and three Super Tuesday states, officials confirmed to …
A super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential run has ended door-knocking efforts in an early voting primary state and three Super Tuesday states.On Super Tuesday, March 5, 13 states will hold their Republican presidential primaries or caucuses: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia.
A day earlier, DeSantis’ main primary rival, former President Donald Trump, is due to appear in Washington, DC, federal court foron charges that he attempted to unlawfully overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. The Nevada GOP, which was sympathetic to Trump’s fraudulent election claims, has since filed a lawsuit after the Democratic-controlled legislature adopted a state-run primary system. Republican leaders say the change lacked certain voting integrity measures such as enforcing voter ID and doing away with same-day registration and mail-in ballots. Never Back Down closed down its political canvassing in Nevada, California, North Carolina and Texas in the past few weeks, NBC News first reported.A local judge ruled against the Nevada Republican Party, but they have since appealed to the state Supreme Court. “When you have that kind of uncertainty about how the election’s going to be conducted, that becomes a pretty unstable environment to be investing the kind of resources that we’re investing,” Perrine told The Post, referring to Nevada GOP chairman Michael McDonald as a “Trump puppet.” Currently, the state-organized Nevada Republican primary is set for Feb. 6, while the party-organized caucuses are scheduled for two days later, Feb. 8. McDonald told The Post in response to Perrine that the primary changes were not intended to give any candidate the upper hand but to push back against Democratic efforts to undermine election integrity. Never Back Down spokeswoman Erin Perrine told The Post that Nevada GOP chairman Michael McDonald was a “Trump puppet.”“I’m nobody’s puppet, never have been, never will be. I’m too old to be a puppet,” McDonald said. “This isn’t about President Trump, this isn’t about DeSantis … this is about bringing it back to Nevada voters.” McDonald was one of several Trump allies federally investigated this year for being part of an alleged fake elector scheme meant to reverse the former president’s electoral loss. Perrine noted that there was a “similar situation in California,” where new rules will allow the primary candidate with the most votes to be awarded all 169 state delegates, or a proportion of them equal to their statewide voter tally. “I’m nobody’s puppet, never have been, never will be. I’m too old to be a puppet,” McDonald told The Post.Delegates were previously awarded through a tally of primary votes in each of the congressional districts. “When they changed it to a proportional, statewide winner-take-all, that completely eliminated the opportunity for grassroots campaigning,” Perrine said, adding that it was a “Trump-inspired rigging.” “And so with neither state having a fair process, the door knockers that were in Nevada and California, we decided to make them kind of refocus into the first three,” she added, repeating: “The first three are going to set the conditions for the March states.”
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