It sounds like Never Back Down, the PAC supporting Florida governor Ron DeSantis, is having a little too much fun at the Iowa State Fair.
Politico reported Sunday that a group of Never Back Down officials got into a shouting match at a local bar with a Trump supporter who was sporting a “Back to Back Iowa Champ” hat. According to two witnesses, the fight was started by communications director Erin Perrine, who told the supporter: “You know you lost.”
“The resulting shouting match lasted several minutes,” the outlet reported. “Multiple ‘F’-bombs were dropped. At one point, a Trump supporter made a lewd comment to Perrine, a fourth person familiar with the events told Politico. No physical fight ever occurred.”
A source familiar with the incident tells Cockburn that Jeff Roe, a top consultant to DeSantis and advisor to Never Back Down, was actually the key instigator of the spat at the Copper Cup.
“Jeff Roe got really upset at the bar because a Kari Lake staffer was wearing the ‘Back to Back Iowa Champ’ hat, which was about Trump winning the general election — not the Iowa caucus. Roe became belligerent, saying that Trump did not win, and it was Cruz,” the source detailed.
Roe previously served as campaign manager to Senator Ted Cruz, who won the Iowa caucus in 2016, which might explain why he was so sensitive about the hats.
Rumor has it that somebody close to Team Trump has the CCTV footage. Cockburn wonders if such a person might be interested in slipping it to their favorite degenerate gossip columnist — as he’s particularly interested in how the fracas concluded. Did Never Back Down… back down?
