Burns: The DeSantis-Aligned Super PAC, Never Back Down, Spent Time in Office Working on a Jigsaw Puzzle

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BURNS: “Multiple staffers from the headquarters of the DeSantis Iowa operation, their field operation run by Never Back Down, reached out to me and my producer, Abby Brooks, and said that the CEO and chairman of that organization was spending a significant amount of time in those final, critical days working on a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle. Now, some of those staffers were — were so confused and found it so absurd that one of them actually took a photo of it and shared it with us. And the frustration was described to me, from one of them, saying that, 'You know, look, staffers are putting their dedication and devotion to electing Governor DeSantis, and they come in, and the CEO and chairman of the organization is sitting there working on a puzzle for hours.' Now, in a comment to NBC News, Scott Wagner, the gentleman in the picture there, tells us that it was an office puzzle. He said that it was there when they arrived, and became a sense of pride for team members, and everyone chipped in a few minutes to get it done, and — and noted his pride of the team. But, look, Kristen, the fact that in those critical final days, one of the top people that was trying to get DeSantis elected, trying to get a win for him in Iowa was spending time working on something unrelated to the caucuses is just emblematic of the sort of mismanagement and wasted effort that a lot of the sources we talked to for this piece say plagued the team and the DeSantis campaign from the very beginning."