Peter Hamby: “A number of GOP sources inform me {that a} pair of revered Republican consultants—Phil Cox, a veteran adviser to Republican governors with shut connections with main donors, and Liesl Hickey, the previous govt director of the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee—have been recruiting staffers for an excellent PAC that will assist a DeSantis bid.”

“The governor has not decided on a marketing campaign, however each Cox and Hickey are skilled, high-level strategists who helped steer DeSantis’s 2020 re-election bid and his attention-grabbing fights on schooling and Covid. They aren’t the sort of people that waste their days preventing with randos on Twitter—each have been working within the trenches of Republican politics lengthy earlier than Trump got here alongside—and their involvement within the doable tremendous PAC is without doubt one of the strongest alerts but that DeSantis is shifting towards a nationwide marketing campaign. I’m additionally informed that Generra Peck, a Darden MBA with Virginia roots who now works for DeSantis in Tallahassee, has been making comparable recruiting calls to Republican operatives about probably engaged on an official marketing campaign if DeSantis decides to make the leap.”

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