Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slashed more than a third of his campaign staff, as his floundering bid for the GOP presidential primary failed to gain traction with voters.
“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.
“Governor 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.” DeSantis now trails former President Donald Trump by more than 30 percentage points among Republicans nationwide, even though the 77-year-old is facing dozens of federal and state criminal charges and isThe massive gap is a sharp departure from early this year, when the RealClearPolitics polling average showed DeSantis just 13 percentage points behind Trump in late January, months before the Florida governor declared his candidacy.
“They never should have brought so many people on, the burn rate was way too high,” one Republican familiar with the campaign’s thought process told The Post earlier this month.The departures include senior advisors Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain, who left to boost an outside pro-DeSantis group, the campaign said.
Amid the departures, Carl Sceusa was named chief financial officer to go with his current role as chief technology officer, digital director Ethan Eilon was elevated to deputy campaign manager, Cody Hall was added as senior communications adviser and Andrew Romeo was promoted to communications director.
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