Yup, awful huggy. Gee, who could have seen this coming?Posted on 07/21/2023 7:43:10 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
It’s going to get a lot more huggy in the brand image of Team DeSantis 2.0
According to campaign officials, and those inside the operations, DeSantis will stop talking about Florida, tone down the wokeism and confrontation with the alphabet people, drop the expensive platform speeches and focus on small group meetings to help the candidate learn how to like people more. In essence, stop being the DeSantis campaign.
Yup, awful huggy. Gee, who could have seen this coming?
(Via NBC) – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign is planning a reboot, top campaign officials said, with a significant shift on messaging, events and media strategy.
Expect fewer big speeches and more handshaking in diners and churches. There will be more of a national focus than constant Florida references. And the mainstream media may start to get more access.
[…] Campaign filings show that the DeSantis campaign needs to figure out how to bring in more money and spend less. It fired roughly a dozen staffers last week. Donors and allies are pressing for a change. The poll numbers are stagnant. And rival GOP presidential candidates are smelling blood in the water.
“Downright low” is how a source who was present when the staffers were fired described morale these days. “The entire campaign is on the brink,” the person said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The reboot is notable for a candidate who was perhaps the most widely expected GOP entrant in the 2024 race.
[…] The campaign postponed paying some of its outstanding bills until after the end of June, in part so its second-quarter financial report would show more money in the bank, the sources said. It’s not an uncommon practice for campaigns running up against big reporting deadlines, but it can obscure larger issues.
Top DeSantis aides acknowledge that the money situation has to be addressed. They plan to do it in part by cutting costs for his events. DeSantis won’t travel less, but his campaign appearances will begin to be leaner and more intimate.
[…] Cody Hall is joining the campaign as a senior communications adviser. He will remain a top political adviser to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, having also served as communications director after he worked on his 2018 campaign for governor. Campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo is stepping into the communications director role, and Bryan Griffin will continue as press secretary.
The DeSantis campaign has already laid off roughly a dozen people, NBC News reported. Campaign officials said that, as of now, they don’t plan any more budget-related layoffs. (read more)
Again, it won’t work. Everything is fake, manufactured, astroturf, based on a foundation of fraud… And, inauthentic.
The candidate sucks and the candidate’s wife is a Cindy McCain clone trying to be more like Sarah Palin. Yup, more fakery.
The smallness of their naked ambition is as visible as the artificial nature of the pretending that began long before the “book tour.” They are in the self-fulfilling downward spiral where every effort extended to ask people to like them only looks more pathetic and weaker.
Once they have played out the cancer card, they’re done.
Nice post, jerk.
Any lights fall?
Desantis needs to double down, triple the effort.
LOL !
The problem is that DeSantis will lose his Globalist/Neocon support if he tries to start looking like he’s MAGA.
He’s kind of in a bind, which is why it’s best for him to work towards 2028.
The primary has been over for months.
No one has polled in the same universe.
To carry on as if it competitive and somehow beneficial is lol ridiculous.
THROW THE DAMN TOWEL!!!
No doubt about it. DeSantis has made the same mistake that DJT made in 2016. He’s surrounded himself with neo-cons and RINOs.
Hopefully, he’ll grasp that lesson, as President Trump did, and recover by 2028.
Good for DeSantis. Step one is defend Trump against deep state thugs ...
Step Two - talk about what he’ll do for all of us - and leave the ‘Florida talk’ to later as back up. NOT as front and center.
The economy. Oil production. A sane military. Safe guarding our children and their future and the border...
Last but not least - let DeSantis be DeSantis.
Trumps kids seem responsible and good adults.
In other words, they’re going to stop courting the MAGA vote and start courting the ant-Trump establishment vote more openly. What more proof do people need that DeSantis is a chameleon?
Yes, they do not seem to take after their father.
All Reno89519 can do is impersonate the man he claims he hates.
Yes, Trump should.
I support Trump and I will vote for him, but I am a little sad to think that Ron was NOT the person I thought he was.
His association with the odious Paul Ryan is disturbing.
WE CANNOT JUST DEPEND ON DONALD J TRUMP TO BE THE ONLY ...STRONG...LEADER ON WHOM WE DEPEND!
There must be good, strong men to lead us in the years ahead. I pray he recovers, endorses Trump and becomes our FUTURE.
Is that asking too much?
Let’s face it. DeSantis needs to endorse Donald J Trump.
That would be my best advise to him.
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