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Jeff Roe

Jeff Roe, campaign manager for Senator Ted Cruz, smiles during a Bloomberg Politics interview in Des Moines, Iowa.
Tara Palmeri • August 29, 2024

Jeff Roe Speaks!

Everybody’s favorite mercenary mega-consultant offers a candid assessment of the 2024 state of play, DeSantis regrets, becoming a Trump frenemy, Kamalamentum, and those “latte-drinking men.”
Tara Palmeri • December 7, 2023
Republicans Prepare the Trump Loyalty Oath
Donald Trump speaks to the media while attending his trial in New York State Supreme Court on December 7, 2023 in New York City.
National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Steve Daines has been “aggressively lobbying” senators to make their Trump endorsement now, before the blacklisting begins. House members and G.O.P. operatives aren’t far behind.
Theodore Schleifer • December 5, 2023
The DeSantis Megadonor Panic Room
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks to guests during a campaign rally at the Thunderdome on December 02, 2023, in Newton, Iowa.
As his operation falls further into disarray, everyone is pissed at everyone else, and the money guys behind the scenes are having to make tough calls. Plus: a scoop on WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum’s $5 million investment in Haley.
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama greet Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro at the Liacouras Center on November 5, 2022 in Philadelphia.
Tara Palmeri • November 30, 2023
The Obama-Biden Thing & Jeff Roe Déjà Vu
As the White House confronts a Gen Z backlash, calls for an Obama intervention have been tempered by fresh anxiety over the party’s generational deficit and the president’s messaging strategy.
Like the Tim Scott crush over the summer, the Glenn Youngkin idea is mostly being peddled by rich country clubbers in the Republican donor set.
Peter Hamby • October 2, 2023
The Youngkin Mind Flu
Of course donors are salivating over Glenn Youngkin, the 6-foot-6 Harvard MBA and private equity billionaire-turned-Republican governor straight out of central casting circa 2012. But let’s be real: there is no electorate for Youngkin, no actual plan to draft him, and no logical process to do so.
The past weekend was a Politics 101 refresher for the Biden bundling network.
Tara Palmeri • September 21, 2023
Biden Shutdown Politics & A DeSantis Disaster in New Hampshuh
The latest chattering of the national political class as the government prepares to shutdown while the general election season beckons.
Despite enduring months of bad headlines, Ron DeSantis appears to have put his supposed death march on pause.
Peter Hamby • August 21, 2023
Down But Not Out in Iowa
Scenes from the State Fair, where Vivek is the new Buttigieg, DeSantis keeps getting friend-zoned, the Trump-Scott ticket is a veritable conservative fantasy, and voters are decidedly undecided ahead of this week’s G.O.P. debate.
For Ryan Salame to flip on Sam Bankman-Fried would suggest, symbolically at least, that his goose is cooked.
Theodore Schleifer • August 15, 2023
The Salame Witch Trial
Will S.B.F.’s former lieutenant finally succumb to the feds’ relentless pressure to flip? Or have tales of his demise been greatly exaggerated?
James Uthmeier and Ryan Tyson are trusted Ron DeSantis loyalists, suggesting once again that the key qualification to lead the DeSantis campaign is fidelity to Ron and Casey.
Tara Palmeri • August 10, 2023
Make Jeff Roe Great Again
The mega-consultant, currently ensconced at DeSantis’ super PAC, will now have a loyal and telekinetic deputy acting as de facto campaign manager and Tallahassee daycare operator. Is this just the first step before Roe starts calling all the shots, himself?
Ron DeSantis’s boosters have frequently invoked McCain’s come-from-behind, early-primary-state-targeting, momentum-slingshotting strategy as their new lodestar after his national polling faltered.
Tina Nguyen • July 26, 2023
DeSantis Blame Games & Witch Hunt Mania
News and notes on the political erogenous zones of the modern right: Is Jeff Roe or Generra Peck to blame for the DeSantis slump? And Is Kevin McCarthy really going after the president?