Posted on 07/26/2023 8:20:03 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The campaign reportedly laid off 38 staffers, which DeSantis’s campaign manager, Generra Peck, described as part of the “aggressive steps” it has taken to “streamline operations” and boost the governor’s position in the polls.
“Following a top-to-bottom review of our organization, we have taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden,” Peck said in a statement.
“Gov. DeSantis is going to lead the Great American Comeback, and we’re ready to hit the ground running as we head into an important month of the campaign,” she added.
Federal filings showed over 90 staffers on the campaign’s payroll as of June, per Politico.
This move also comes as critics have pointed to the DeSantis campaign’s lack of small-dollar donors. Donald Trump Jr. reacted to the preliminary news of the DeSantis team laying off staff due to money issues during an exclusive interview with Breitbart News at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this month.
He noted that DeSantis’s small-dollar donors were “almost non-existent, making up 15 percent of his take.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“You can create a lot of personality with social media influencers, as they have done for the last two years sort of de facto running against [former President Donald] Trump. The reality is, in a Republican primary, like, eventually, you have to put that guy on the stage. And let’s just say, you know, once you get to know Ron DeSantis, you get to not like Ron DeSantis,” Don Jr. said, surmising that the “Never Trump billionaire donor movement” is behind what many view as the governor’s premature presidential campaign.
Shrinkage! Were they in the pool?
If they keep streamlining, pretty soon the Desantis campaign is just going to be him and his wife on a bicycle built for two.
campaign reportedly laid off 38 staffers ... to ...boost the governor’s position in the polls”
yeah, that should work ...
I know DeSantis has a lot of haters here, but I still think he’d made a fantastic VP candidate under Trump. I don’t think the ticket could lose.
yeah might have worked but those bridges have been burned for a while now
No bridges have been burned that cannot be repaired. Campaign talk is, by its nature, combative.
If they were getting rid of low performers, they could have started with the candidate.
We don’t hate DeSantis. We just hate the fact that he’s being used by the butt-hurt Never Trumpers to derail Trump’s Revenge Tour. 2028 was all gift-wrapped for Ron until he had to pull this crap. Now his national political aspirations is in ruins, and he’s already a lame duck as Governor.
RDS was a real up and comer. I loved the way he was on a roll getting things done. Now I realize all of it was to further his political aspirations and that he was not a true believer.
I hope Ron learns some valuable lessons from all of this and applies the lessons learned to his 2028 campaign.
They just moved over to his PAC.
Remember, Trump went through three campaign managers and numerous other staff changes in 2016.
They just moved over to his PAC.
Remember, Trump went through three campaign managers and numerous other staff changes in 2016.
At least DeSantis fires people who aren’t performing which is more than be said for Trump.
It’s a state by state race; national polls are irrelevant.
They’re polling registered voters in staed of likely voters. About half the respondents probably won’t vote.
They only have a few hunderd actual respondents, and some of those wer eonline, which is notoriously unrelaible.
You should vhe at least 800-1000 respondents.
The selections aren’t random.
Most voters aren’t dialed in yet, so they pick the candidate with the highest name ID.
That ticket makes Florida a problem though.
An electoral college delegate can not vote for a President and Vice President that are both residents of the state that the delegate is representing. Meaning Florida would be off the table for a Trump/DeSantis ticket.
Trump isn’t going to need Florida to win, so it is still possible - but no one is going to want to go in with that loss right off the bat.
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