Unlike traditional presidential field organizing, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's Never Back Down effort is staffed with an army of paid workers, many of whom have responded to advertisements that offer positions for $20 to $22 an hour.
Speaking on his phone while wearing a T-shirt with “DESANTIS” in big letters and a lanyard representing the Never Back Down super PAC, he used lewd remarks to describe what he would tell the homeowner to do to him.
risk of the unprecedented effort by DeSantis donors to flood early primary states with thousands of paid door knockers armed with high-tech tools to win support one conversation at a time.Unlike traditional presidential field organizing — which is run by an official campaign and driven largely by volunteers — the Never Back Down effort is staffed with an army of paid workers, many of whom have responded to advertisements that offer positions for $20 to $22 an hour.
Never Back Down officials say the effort is already paying enormous returns for the pro-DeSantis effort. The super PAC — which collects unlimited donations and does not directly coordinate strategy with the candidate — now fields 350 to 400 canvassers, all of whom have been trained and are audited daily, said Kristin Davison, the chief operating officer of Never Back Down.
“I thought it was off-putting that he was from out of state,” said Geralyn Jones, the Marion resident who supports Trump and spoke with the canvasser. “If you are going to be endorsing or knocking, you need to be from here. I didn’t understand why DeSantis of all people could not get other people on the ground.”Mike Hogan, a Trump supporter in Nashua, N.H., said he found a Never Back Down door knocker on his front porch in late May, shortly after DeSantis announced his campaign.
Never Back Down organizers say that some people in every training class do not make it through the program because they do not meet the standards of the organization.
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