One further thought on how campaign election law has created a mess.
For those who know how to play bridge it is similar to the campaign election laws.
In bridge it violates the rules if you communicate with your partner—but if you want to cheat and win you need to figure out a sneaky way to communicate with your partner.
In campaign law the campaign and the political action committees are like bridge partners.
To continue the bridge analogy—well experienced bridge partners can become experts in bridge “conventions” which are ways they can use bids to communicate hidden messages.
Experienced campaigns develop a method of signaling between campaign and political action committees.
They better not get caught though—can be jail time if the scheme fails.
To continue the bridge analogy to the DeSantis campaign:
The DeSantis campaign is like a bridge game that you often see where a husband and wife are partners. The couple is often communicating poorly—a symptom of problems in their marriage that have nothing to do with bridge.
One partner has a hand full of high spades and wants to win the bid in spades. The other partner has a hand full of high diamonds and wants to win the bid in diamonds. If they fight enough then the other team will get to play their hand—or they will keep forcing up the bid until they have overextended themselves.
Any conflict between a campaign and the political action committees tend to escalate very quickly with finger pointing and media leaks.
Worse yet the conflict can cause the partners to lose trust in each other—and remember jail time can be the result if anybody talks to legal authorities.
It can quickly degrade into the gang that couldn’t shoot straight and starts running away in all directions.
This wasn’t subtle collusion and co-operation between desantis and the neverbackdown super pac.
Because the desantis campaign was basically broke, the neverbackdown group were basically hosting events and transporting desantis around to different events, besides doing all the other media stuff.