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.
” the mainstream media may start to get more access.”
That is known as the McCain strategy.
Suck up to the mass media and then wait for them to stab you in the back at a time and place of their choosing.
Then the high paid campaign staff of “experts” sits around the conference room and says “What happened?” “They were so friendly on the campaign plane.”
Lol.
“To carry on as if it competitive and somehow beneficial is lol ridiculous.”
It is beneficial. To run for prez ya gotta build a warchest, and that includes money and contacts. DeSantis needs to do this right now if he wants to run in 2028.
Thanks. I’m supporting DeSantis for VP in ‘24 and President in ‘28. Trump needs to choose someone with the ability to step into his shoes if needed/and carry out the MAGA agenda four years later... and that person is DeSantis.
Okay, he’s officially lost me. When he was talking about shuttering some of the alphabets I was still potentially with him. I don’t hate Trump at all. And now Trump seems like the only logical choice.
Well now you’re just a hater of trans.
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Being himself IS one of the larger problems.
DeSantis has already said he does not want the #2 position.
RDS is actually running against and “incumbent” that never got to serve his second term. He won that term with more votes than his first term.
Trump is a very vibrant and alive personality and has a natural ability to connect to people of all stripes. It is a gift that not everyone has. RDS just does not have this quality and neither did Jeb Bush.
In spite of so called “mean tweets” Trump is a nice person and a friendly guy.
He only attacks people that he perceives as attacking him. When he attacks, he usually does it himself rather than using surrogates as others do.
Yeah, nobody wants to see that. Get a hotel room. Plenty in Florida.
"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."
Kemp is loaning bodies? Where's Ruby?
"Once they have played out the cancer card, they’re done."
Oh, they're done.
Oh, he made it into the lifeboat, remember? Look at that form! He coulda' gone into Triple-AAA baseball!
He is the governor of FLA-he does not need to run for POTUS now to make contacts and raise money to run in 2028.
Besides allowing himself to unnecessarily be pigeon holed in national issues, he is divisive and becoming unelectable.
Ditto this
Again, bleccch.
He might not want it but if called by Trump to serve his country, he’ll take it. Biden and goons have weakened the country so much we need a team that consists of two people who can be President.
Trump doesn’t have the luxury of choosing based on Kolor, Kink or Kin - democrats can afford to do that crap because they don’t give a damn about the country. But we do so we can’t.
I live in Florida - DeSantis is a great Governor. Maybe our best ever.
But he’s wet behind the ears on a national stage. Trump was too the first time he ran. I suspect both men initially listened to people who were ‘in it’ for their own benefit and not for Trump or DeSantis.
Trump needs to finish what he started, but his VP needs the MAGA vision and that’s DeSantis.
Tonight? Every other thread.
I’ll bet 99% if them attacked Cruz supporters in 2016 for not backing Trump and accusing them if wanting “Hillary to win”.
Fold the tent and go home to Florida Ron. 😏
Anyone placing blame on losses in 2018 or 2022 on Trump are delusional.
Candidates have to win on their own. Oz, Walker and JD Vance all ran on the same message. Vance won big. Oz did not and Walker got close. But PA and GA are rigged states now.
“He is the governor of FLA-he does not need to run for POTUS now to make contacts and raise money to run in 2028.
Yes, he does. Have you ever seen a candidate run once and win? No, you haven’t.
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