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.
Blechhhh
MAGA Dittoes
Rearranging the chairs on the deck of the SS Desantis ain’t going to stop it’s sinking…
He was a fool to run this time. Shown himself to be an establishment shill.
Went from the most likely 2028 front runner to a man who will never ever have a shot a national elected office… just unfathomable stupid.
I’ve said it before, I’lll say it again..
Trump was the 2024 nominee as of Jan 7 2020, as long as he chose to run… he did and there is no math anywhere that allows anyone else to be the nominee with Trump in the race.
Trump will handily win well over 60% of all votes cast in the gop primary whe its all said and done.
The rest of the candidates can do whatever they like, there is less than 40% of the vote that all of them will get combined.
Why?
Simple
1). The 2020 steal will not go unanswered
2) just like in 2016 every other candidate running is just establishment shills who will do what their money men tell them, and will not fight for the people when push comes to shove and everyone knows it.
The GOP establishment is so disconnected from the electorate they do not realize no one is buying what they are selling
Tucker literally destroyed the entire field by asking simple honest questions and every on of the candidates showed what they care about and what you care about are an ocean apart.
All true, but the trolls are lively tonight, aren’t they?
Please forgive the intrusion...but my heart is breaking for the divisive and almost nasty this political situation has caused.
I love Trump. I really liked De Santis.
I have never insulted De Santis about anything. He made a mistake, IMHO, when he decided to run at this time.
Is it necessary to insult Trump now that we have hit a rough patch. I don’t think so.
I think insulting both Trump and/or De Santis is wasting time.
Insult that pedo, slob, liar, thief who was fraudulently placed in the White House ALL YOU WANT, EVERY DAY.
+1
You totally nailed the situation in regards to both Trump and DeSantis.
They can court that all they want that amount of the electorate isn’t enough to win… period.
Hi is campaign messaging is the worst I’ve ever seen
“I’m just like that guy you really want but I’m somehow better…”
Idiotic.
Another great white hope of the establishment crashes and burns
He’s shown his true colors the MAGA suppor the could have possibly gotten if Trump weren’t running will now never ever trust him…
Any chance he had of national elected office is done.
Tucker literally destroyed the entire field by asking simple honest questions and every on of the candidates showed what they care about and what you care about are an ocean apart.
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HamiltonJay,
Great Post.
For once I agree with you. Trump should throw that towel, but he should throw it over to help douse the flames of that dumpster fire that is the RDS presidential campaign!
Just like last time, only marginally less lame?
All Trump ever did for 4 years was surround himself with NeoCons and rinos. He freaking hired John Bolton
Let’s face it. Trump is destined to lose again, just like he lost in 2020 and we lost with all of his terrible Senate picks in 2022. Best thing that he could do at this point is drop out and endorse to DeSantis. That would be my best advice to him. If he won’t do it for ego reasons, he should do it for his only real shot at receiving a presidential pardon and not living out the rest of his days behind bars reasons.
Give it up, Ron. You didn’t produce. Your handlers have moved on to new kid on the block Ramaswampy.
That’s very true. But the ability of the GOP Establishment/Consultant class to delude themselves into believing what they want to believe, is off the charts. They haven’t figured out yet, that the kind of “messaging” they engage in doesn’t work anymore. They’re still following the playbook from 20 years ago, and earlier. It may have worked back then, but Republican voters have become more sophisticated and better at sniffing out inauthenticity than they were in the past.
“Give it up, Ron. You didn’t produce. Your handlers have moved on to new kid on the block Ramaswampy.”
I kinda liked Vivek until I found out how he trashed Trump and the Jan6th protest blaming both Trump and the protesters vociferously. The other day on TV he repeated that he blamed Trump and the protest which means he acquiesces in the arrests of the protesters who are still being rounded up on false pretenses. I cannot abide by this attitude and Vivek has cooked his goose because of this stance, IMO.
He’s too RamaSwampy for me. But he sure is glib. Trump could use him in some office of his Presidency; he’s just not presidential material; however, he’s probably running for just that, a position in a Trump Administration.
I don’t agree with anything you write.
It must be depressing to have such an outlook on life.
I don’t see your solution as anything but a losing one.
And, of course, that is your opinion, but we must agree to disagree.
Reno is a loser.
Agreed. Too late though.
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