aggiehawg said:
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Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign is expanding the number of staff it's cutting to include more than a third of his payroll as the Florida governor looks to get his primary bid back on track.
The cuts, which were confirmed by advisers, will amount to a total of 38 jobs shed across an array of departments. They will include the roughly 10 event planning positions that were announced several weeks ago, in addition to the recent departures of two senior DeSantis campaign advisers, Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain.
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"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," DeSantis campaign manager Generra 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."
The expanded cuts are the latest sign that the Florida governor's team is pivoting to a slim-down operation amid concerns over their finances. The campaign announced it had raised $20 million during the second quarter of this year. But it had spent a good chunk of that money. Much of the sum it raised, moreover, came from donors who had given the maximum amount and could not give again.
Politico
The last paragraph is the giveaway that this is a hit piece (as if that isn't obvious coming from Politico).
Desantis did well in fundraising getting $20 million in 6 weeks but more importantly that's just his official campaign. His PAC, which is all that really matters, has about $150 million and completely dwarfs Trump. It also is complete crap to say ""donors have given the max and can't give again" because they can give all they want to NeverBackDown and Politico damn well knows that. DeSantis has 6000 more unique donors than Trump.
DeSantis definitely is reshaping his campaign which would be a concern except he has done that in literally every race he has ever run. He tries something and then constantly re-evaluates and shifts. He DGAF about how it looks, he cares about the big picture. He is also famous for not allowing people to leak ANYTHING unless he wants it leaked. So if you hear a story from "insiders" with DeSantis it is either something he wants you to hear or it is a made up source. That's how he rolls.
Trump OTOH is running on fumes financially. He's spending half his cash on lawyers and he already had about half of what DeSantis does. He's got almost all his money in his actual campaign from small dollar folks and his PAC is running very low because the PAC gets money from big donors and they aren't investing in him anymore.
Don't be fooled by hit piece articles like this. One thing I will give Trump credit for is he has mastered the Dem tactic of accusing your opponent of doing what you are doing. Literally every negative thing he is accusing DeSantis of he is doing bigtime from his Establishment ties to colluding with the MSM to take down DeSantis. He loves to scream how DeSantis has not done enough to defend him and show loyalty to him but then he just lies nonstop about DeSantis and actually fuels MSM lies as well. It's amazing how obvious it is.
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Ronald Reagan
