Team DeSantis is getting big time help from his super PAC Never Back Down. They’ve created a “canvassing boot camp” to train door knockers on how to talk to people about DeSantis.

According to NBC News, it’s a very expansive and in-depth program that is designed to help DeSantis overtake Trump, who is leading in the polls:

On Thursday, NBC News was offered a behind-the-scenes look at what the DeSantis allies have dubbed their “Fort Benning” — a nod to the military base in Georgia that provides basic training and was until recently named for a Confederate general — where door-knockers like Craddock are going through an eight-day “boot camp” learning everything there is to know about early-state canvassing and DeSantis himself.

At the training center, canvassers take classes, practice with pretend voters through a fake door at the center of the facility and run through all sorts of scenarios they could encounter out in the field. When one trainee was asked whether DeSantis favored cutting Medicare and Social Security, their fellow classmates chanted in unison when asked how to respond: “No change!”

Joe Williams, the senior field training director for Never Back Down, told Craddock that, considering it was only his second time practicing, “that was pretty doggone good.”

The DeSantis allies see this large-scale field program as the centerpiece in an effort to overtake former President Donald Trump, who holds a substantial edge over DeSantis in GOP primary polls but faces indictments. In total, DeSantis’ backers plan to spend $100 million on this ground game spread over 18 states, laying the groundwork for the Florida governor to pick off delegates and win key battlegrounds.

More than 260 canvassers have graduated from Never Back Down’s program…

So far, more than 260 canvassers have graduated from Never Back Down’s program, with door-knockers deployed to locations in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and Super Tuesday states. As of Friday, Never Back Down’s team of canvassers has hit more than 235,000 households across the country, including about 83,000 in Iowa, 56,000 in New Hampshire and 76,000 in South Carolina since last month.

The goal, they say, is to have 2,600 trained canvassers by Labor Day.

“This is the most expansive, most in-depth, most cooperative, most intensive — fill in however many words you want to there that mean the same thing — program that I’ve ever seen,” Williams, who is also president of Vanguard Field Strategies, said. “It’s not even close.”

Never Back Down is really pulling out all the stops in order to help DeSantis win. I’m sure Team DeSantis has their own ground game they are putting together for the battleground states, but this sounds like it’s gonna be that and then some, on steroids.

Trump has a strong lead and this effort is most certainly an uphill battle, so we’ll see if they can do it.