Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a significant reduction in staff personnel in a yet most extreme effort to salvage his presidential campaign.
Desanits' advisors confirmed that a third or more campaign personnel would be let go.
Falling off the cliff
DeSantis's popularity has been plummeting since April. The American people now share deeply negative opinions of the Florida governor, according to FiveThirtyEight.
He's now sacking staff to accommodate the fall. The DeSantis campaign has already gone through two rounds of staff reductions in the past week and has fired 38 advisers so far this month, almost as many as Donald Trump's whole campaign team in 2024. One of DeSantis's staff has even been sacked over sharing explicit videos and taking pride in Nazi symbolism.
In his early months as a candidate, DeSantis has needed help gaining traction and has fallen behind Trump in the polls as supporters and contributors have questioned the long-term viability of his campaign.
Splurging won't cut it
After the first public look into his campaign's finances this month, those concerns reached a boiling point. It revealed that DeSantis's payroll was around twice as large as Trump's and that he was spending 40 percent of the $20 million fund from April through June.
As of July, DeSantis had just $9 million to spend on the primary race from his initial haul.
DeSantis is unquestionably the most formidable opponent to Trump, even with the first Republican debate still a month away.
Despite the 71 criminal accusations against him and the possibility of additional ones, the former president holds leads in national and important state polls of approximately 30 points.
DeSantis is largely seen to be floundering, with financial sources exhausted and his policy proposals—often to the right of Trump—falling flat with the general public. No other candidate in the 13-strong field has made a meaningful advance.
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