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Ron DeSantis accused of ‘stupid’ move with timing of New Hampshire event

Ron DeSantis signs autographs
Ron DeSantis signs autographs after speaking during a campaign stop in Manchester, New Hampshire, earlier this month. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is struggling in the crucial state of New Hampshire and may have made the situation worse by scheduling an event on Tuesday in competition with a speech by Donald Trump to Republican women, prompting one prominent strategist to call the move “stupid”, Politico reported.

“It’s the worst strategic move he has exhibited thus far,” the New Hampshire Republican strategist, Mike Dennehy, told the website. “It’s just stupid, actually. You don’t take on the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women.”

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