Pro-DeSantis PAC offers to pay for Trump to leave Florida after he calls it the ‘worst state’

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A super PAC supporting a potential White House bid from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday that he would financially support former President Donald Trump’s move to California just one day after the GOP 2024 front runner took aim at the leadership of the Sunshine State and called it the “worst state.”

“Donald Trump has so deeply despised the state of Florida by calling it the worst state, we at Never Back Down will help him leave by offering financial assistance to help him move to his beloved California, to be he’s close with his good friend Gavin. Newsom, whom he loves very much and gets along well with,” Never Back Down CEO Chris Jankowski said in a statement.

“The good news is that because so many people are moving to the state of Florida, thanks to the incredible victory of Governor Ron DeSantis, no one will notice when Trump leaves,” Jankowski added. “The state of Florida will be better off when Trump takes his Soros-fueled, dumpster fire of a campaign to San Francisco, where it fits.”

In a lengthy statement released Friday, Trump, who chose to live in Florida following his time in the White House, took aim at DeSantis’ leadership in the state and asserted that Florida “has become one of the least affordable state to live in the country.”

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A super PAC backing a potential White House bid from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday said it would financially support former President Donald Trump’s move to California just a day after he took aim at the leadership of the Sunshine State and called it the “worst state.” (Anna Moneymaker, Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump said, “Florida has become one of the worst states” to “live in, find economic opportunity, work, retire, raise a family, pay taxes, be safe, rent a house, have a baby, provide energy, die, be a teacher, be a doctor, [or] be a policeman.”

Additionally, Trump said that Florida is not a good place for “millennials, working fathers, [or] working mothers.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, left, and his wife, Casey DeSantis, address a crowd at the North Charleston Coliseum on April 19, 2023, in North Charleston, South Carolina. (Sean Rayford)

Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting DeSantis’ prospective candidacy for the White House in 2024, released its first national ad earlier this month. The ad began airing earlier this week, with the super PAC spending at least $1 million to place it.

The Never Back Down PAC titled the ad “Fight Democrats, not Republicans” and went after Trump for his recent attacks on the popular Florida governor. Trump recently called DeSantis “Ron DeSanctimonious” and pushed back on claims he wants to dismantle Social Security.

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“Donald Trump is being attacked by a Democrat prosecutor in New York, so why is he spending millions attacking the Republican governor of Florida?” the ad will start. “Trump is stealing pages from the Biden-Pelosi playbook, repeating lies about social security.”

The ad goes on to play a soundbite from DeSantis saying that he and other Republicans have no plans to “mess with” Social Security. It also plays a clip of Trump himself saying that social rights and security are “at some point” on the table for changes.

“Trump should fight Democrats, not lie about Governor DeSantis,” the ad said. “What happened to Donald Trump?”

Former President Donald Trump attends the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 287 mixed martial arts event at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, on April 8, 2023. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Trump’s camp quickly responded to the ad: “DeSantis is colluding with his globalist handlers to be the absolute Never Trump to gaslight people into thinking that Medicare and Social Security should be taken away from to hardworking Americans. President Trump has made it clear that he will always stand with the American people, and protect the benefits that seniors have worked for and paid for all their lives,” said spokesman Steven Cheung.

Trump announced in November that he would seek the GOP nomination for the White House in 2024, and he has already earned multiple endorsements from several members of the Florida Congressional delegation.

Anders Hagstrom of Fox News contributed to this article.

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