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DeSantis Sheds Staff Amidst Cash Crunch, Poor Polling.
The National Pulse ^ | 7/16/23 | JAKE WELCH

Posted on 07/16/2023 12:16:40 PM PDT by conservative98

Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis has fired a number of his staff due to his struggling presidential campaign failing to meet fundraising goals, as well as burning through inordinate amounts of large, corporate donor cash less than two months after he announced that he was running for the Republican presidential nomination.

The news came just days after National Pulse Editor-in-Chief predicted the “shake up” on The Campaign Trail podcast as well as on Twitter:

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 Another major revelation is that just 15 percent of the DeSantis campaign’s donations came from “small-dollar donors,” compared to former president Donald Trump, who is heavily reliant on smaller donations from his fanbase. Instead, DeSantis has relied upon donors with international corporate interests, such as Morteza “Mori” Hosseini, who has bankrolled Nancy Pelosi and supported the Obamas, and globalists like Howard Cox, who served on a World Economic Forum board alongside Klaus Schwab.

 Much of the internal campaign frustration has been aimed at Generra Peck, a former D.C. lobbyist.

 “She should be [in the hot seat]” one DeSantis donor said, with another Republican source saying: “They never should have brought so many people on, the burn rate was way too high… People warned the campaign manager but she wanted to hear none of it.”

 “DeSantis stock isn’t rising,” the donor added. “Twenty percent is not what people signed up for.”

 In response, the DeSantis campaign aide, Andrew Romeo, argued in a statement: “Americans are rallying behind Ron DeSantis and his plan to reverse Joe Biden’s failures and restore sanity to our nation, and his momentum will only continue as voters see more of him in person…”

 The news comes at the end of another poor week for Florida’s Governor, who saw his delegate forecast hit an all-time low. Donors, including the Murdochs, are subsequently looking to go elsewhere.


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KEYWORDS: 2024; andrewromeo; desantis; desantiscash; donors; florida; generrapeck; polls; rondesantis; rupertmurdoch; shedding; stevecortes; teamdesantis; trump
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1 posted on 07/16/2023 12:16:40 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98
The Snake is shedding.


2 posted on 07/16/2023 12:17:01 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Part of the shake up I told you was coming. There’s more to come. https://t.co/ACzZUcJq9i— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) July 14, 2023


3 posted on 07/16/2023 12:17:52 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Embrace the suck, Cortes, and, other backstabbers.


4 posted on 07/16/2023 12:21:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: conservative98
Andrew Romeo, argued in a statement:

“AMERICANS ARE RALLYING BEHIND RON DESANTIS

and his plan to reverse Joe Biden’s failures and restore sanity to our nation, and

his momentum will only continue as voters see more of him in person…”


5 posted on 07/16/2023 12:21:37 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Hindenburg Omen…?


6 posted on 07/16/2023 12:22:04 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: conservative98

Hey Ron, you’re still young. let Trump have this one, it’s his last chance.


7 posted on 07/16/2023 12:22:51 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of cheaters)
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8 posted on 07/16/2023 12:23:11 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

He should have embraced Trump, maintain momentum in his 2nd term and take the MAGA mantle in 2028.

Instead he backstabed FLA voters. Only his ego thinks he has a chance against Trump.


9 posted on 07/16/2023 12:28:27 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: JJBookman
Hey Ron, you’re still young. let Trump have this one, it’s his last chance.

Yeah, right. After Trump gets clobbered in '24 (and he will. He has no strategy to win back any of the swing states that he lost in 2020 other than denying he lost them at all) his supporters will roll him out for '28. "He's the only man who can Drain The Swamp! Everyone else needs to Wait Their Turn!"

And in 2032, "He's only 86, whip-smart, and in better physical shape than most 30 year olds!"

And in '36, Trump will be a spry 90 year old, rested and ready to enact vengeance on the Deep State.

10 posted on 07/16/2023 12:28:38 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: conservative98

Sometimes it is not the staff.


11 posted on 07/16/2023 12:33:47 PM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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I'll be a bit easier on DeSantis when I'm convinced he's ridden himself of his foreign Operative, Ms. Botox:

EXAMPLE - Christina Pushaw https://imgur.com/3ve7v05

12 posted on 07/16/2023 12:41:03 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: conservative98

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13 posted on 07/16/2023 12:41:15 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Drew68

Trump is the only president to help bring back middle class manufacturing jobs, by imposing serious tariffs on China. None of the other candidates have balls to go against their rich donor class to do what Trump did.

Check my tag line.


14 posted on 07/16/2023 12:47:06 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians are there to build wealth. Trump is there to lose wealth to serve people.)
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To: rktman

Why white women use Botox to make their lips look African?


15 posted on 07/16/2023 12:49:00 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians are there to build wealth. Trump is there to lose wealth to serve people.)
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To: conservative98; Jane Long

https://twitter.com/miguelifornia/status/1662901076897697793


16 posted on 07/16/2023 12:50:02 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Dems loot & riot -called "protesting" by media. Repub's protest -called "looting & rioting" by media)
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To: entropy12
Trump is the only president to help bring back middle class manufacturing jobs, by imposing serious tariffs on China.

We don't need tarrifs. If you want to bring back middle class manufacturing jobs, then repeal the myriad of EPA, OSHA, and other regulations that make it cost-prohibitive to make stuff here. Americans don't want to pay $2000 for a USA-made TV when a Chinese-made one costs them $200 and that's what you'll get with tariffs. And that's just another form of inflation.

Of course, Trump hired Scott Pruitt to do exactly this, take a blowtorch to the EPA. Unfortunately, Pruitt made liberals cry and Trump, always trying to please those who hate him, demanded Pruitt's resignation.

17 posted on 07/16/2023 12:55:11 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: falcon99

“Sometimes it is not the staff.d”

indeed ... apparently the dogs are refusing to eat the food ...


18 posted on 07/16/2023 1:03:40 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: conservative98

That is video clip amazing.


19 posted on 07/16/2023 1:21:14 PM PDT by JayGalt (Convenience is the bait in which the true poison is concealed.)
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To: JJBookman

Ron has no power to let or not let Trump win the primary. The one certain thing is that DeSantis never will.


20 posted on 07/16/2023 1:22:31 PM PDT by JayGalt (Convenience is the bait in which the true poison is concealed.)
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