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Michael Sainato

DeSantis reduces staff as campaign struggles to meet fundraising goals – report

A bus displaying a sign for Florida Governor and 2024 hopeful Ron DeSantis is seen past a person carrying a sign for former US President and 2024 hopeful Donald Trump, as they walk back to their car at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale, Iowa on June 1, 2023.
Even in Ron DeSantis’s home state of Florida, Trump still has a 20-point lead over the governor, according to a recent poll. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has reduced campaign staff as his campaign has struggled to meet fundraising goals.

Fewer than 10 staffers were laid off, according to an anonymous staffer, reported Politico. The staffers were involved in event planning and may be picked up by the pro-DeSantis super Pac Never Back Down. Two senior campaign advisers, Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain, left the campaign this past week to assist a pro-DeSantis nonprofit group.

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