Matt Dixon is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Florida.
For Charlie Spies, Palm Beach County was the end of the line. Spies, a longtime staple of Republican political and legal circles, abruptly resigned as the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel in the middle of a weekend that brought together some of the party’s biggest dignitaries and donors, as well as served as an audition of sorts for potential Donald Trump running mates.
Ron DeSantis during the 2024 GOP primaries, and DeSantis remains a client of Dickinson Wright, the law firm where Spies is employed. DeSantis ran a brutal primary campaign against Trump, some of whose most fervent supporters still view him critically — even as he and Trump have publicly tried to mend fences. Then there was the official reason: Spies was just professionally stretched too thin.
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