Ron DeSantis PAC spotlights Donald Trump ‘fumbles’ in South Carolina ad buy

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The spot will air near the football stadium in Columbia.

Fans of the South Carolina Gamecocks and Clemson Tigers may be thinking primarily about the action on the field Saturday evening at Williams-Brice Stadium.

But the Never Back Down super PAC is calling attention to action in the 2024 campaign, with a new spot serving as a Donald Trump blooper reel. Per Outkick, which was first to see the spot, the Ron DeSantis supportive political committee is geofencing the Gamecocks’ home stadium in Columbia with the “Trump’s fumbles” ad.

The spot juxtaposes Trump misidentifying a city in Iowa, confusing Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, and not immediately bashing transgender people when asked if a man can become a woman, with sound of a football announcer calling potential turnovers.

The new ad comes as DeSantis struggles in the state.

A recent Winthrop University survey of 626 registered Republicans shows Ron DeSantis at 12%, a distant third place behind Donald Trump (52%) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (17%).

CNN survey of 738 likely Republican voters conducted from Oct. 18 through Oct. 25 showed him with 11% support.

DeSantis has said he’s a “great candidate” for South Carolina and has suggested that despite still being Governor of a different state, he may sign a sublease in South Carolina to make the sale to the state’s Republicans. Polling suggests that he may not want to rush to consult a real estate agent in the Palmetto State, though.

See the ad below.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


12 comments

  • Biscuit

    November 25, 2023 at 10:07 am

    NewsScratch out of South Carolina: Poll of GOP voters here reveals 52% of them are morons, 12% are idiots, and 17% think the name Nikki Haley is strangely familiar and worth a sniff.
    Arf.

    • Earl Pitts "America's-Go-To-Political--Guru" American

      November 25, 2023 at 11:01 am

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  • My Take

    November 25, 2023 at 11:20 am

    South Carolinians long have claimed that polìtics there is a blood sport.

  • My Take

    November 25, 2023 at 11:25 am

    Trump’s being a declining old fool may not be much of a hindrance in SC though.
    Remember Strom Thurmond?

  • PeterH

    November 25, 2023 at 11:41 am

    DeSantis still has a PAC supporting him?!?!

  • My Take

    November 25, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    One other factor.
    Clemson grads and fans are pretty much fanatics.
    Even if avid Trumpists, and most may be, the chance of having a Clemson alum as president is going to be a very strong draw. Stronger than having a South Carolinian.

  • Michael K

    November 25, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    Lame. Trumpers will laugh and miss the point, as if there is a point. The radical far-right lacks any wit or sense of humor, and it shows

    • Tom

      November 26, 2023 at 9:51 am

      They are the party of Dunning-Kruger and there’s no doubt about that. A waste of advertising dollars IMO.

      • My Take

        November 26, 2023 at 3:03 pm

        Too dumb to know they are dumb or to get better.

  • My Take

    November 26, 2023 at 4:33 pm

    The heck with Trump’s being befuddled, emphasize benighted, bereft of morals, by God bedamned and benighted, by Beelzebub beatified to the Brotherhood of Brimstone.
    .
    Don’t tread lightly.

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