Donald Trump’s campaign is seeking to blunt the efforts of a super PAC supporting rival Ron DeSantis by sending a letter to all state Republican parties arguing they cannot work with a super PAC if it represents a candidate.
will be David Polyansky, a strategist who had been advising Never Back Down.
Trump, from his earliest days in the White House, has worked to expand his grip on the state parties. He’s spent years helping allies win positions in the party, including chairmanships, and his political team has worked to rewrite the rules around delegates. The letter warns that in addition to any penalties under federal law that a candidate or super PAC could face for violating rules about illegal coordination, state parties that facilitate those activities could themselves face civil or criminal penalties.
He said a super PAC that is acting independently of a campaign is perfectly free to “speak on behalf of” the candidate they are supporting but cannot hold themselves out as authorized or official representatives of a candidate.
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