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Outside spending in the 2024 election cycle has surpassed $1 billion, outpacing prior election cycles, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis of federal campaign finance reports.

Super PACs and other outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money have poured about $1.1 billion into 2024 federal elections as of Aug. 15 — nearly twice what similar groups spent over the same period in the 2020 presidential election cycle when independent expenditures hit an all-time record. ...

Team DeSantis is all-in on an Iowa Caucus victory next month, but a deeply reported story in the Associated Press implies the Florida governor may be in election legal hot water for steering the moves of his well-funded super PAC.

Gov. Ron DeSantis as a candidate has been on a tireless tear through Iowa, personally visiting all 99 counties, notching endorsements from Gov. Kim Reynolds and a prominent religious leader Bob Vander Plaats.

But the AP paints a picture that internal strife and ship-jumping has led to DeSantis and his wife, Casey, meddling with the deep-pocketed super PAC, Never Back Down. ...

Never back down, but do feel free to resign.

That’s the message White House-hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis received Wednesday when the chief of his main super PAC, Never Back Down, tendered his resignation, according to a new report.

Chris Jankowski, the chief executive of Never Back Down, resigned amid reports of mounting internal tensions and that the super PAC — barred from from coordinating with a presidential campaign — had funded some of DeSantis’ travel, the New York Times reports. ...