It’s going to get a lot more huggy in the brand image of Team DeSantis 2.0
According to campaign officials, and those inside the operations, DeSantis will stop talking about Florida, tone down the wokeism and confrontation with the alphabet people, drop the expensive platform speeches and focus on small group meetings to help the candidate learn how to like people more. In essence, stop being the DeSantis campaign.
Yup, awful huggy. Gee, who could have seen this coming?
(Via NBC) – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign is planning a reboot, top campaign officials said, with a significant shift on messaging, events and media strategy.
Expect fewer big speeches and more handshaking in diners and churches. There will be more of a national focus than constant Florida references. And the mainstream media may start to get more access.
[…] Campaign filings show that the DeSantis campaign needs to figure out how to bring in more money and spend less. It fired roughly a dozen staffers last week. Donors and allies are pressing for a change. The poll numbers are stagnant. And rival GOP presidential candidates are smelling blood in the water.
“Downright low” is how a source who was present when the staffers were fired described morale these days. “The entire campaign is on the brink,” the person said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The reboot is notable for a candidate who was perhaps the most widely expected GOP entrant in the 2024 race.
[…] The campaign postponed paying some of its outstanding bills until after the end of June, in part so its second-quarter financial report would show more money in the bank, the sources said. It’s not an uncommon practice for campaigns running up against big reporting deadlines, but it can obscure larger issues.
Top DeSantis aides acknowledge that the money situation has to be addressed. They plan to do it in part by cutting costs for his events. DeSantis won’t travel less, but his campaign appearances will begin to be leaner and more intimate.
[…] Cody Hall is joining the campaign as a senior communications adviser. He will remain a top political adviser to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, having also served as communications director after he worked on his 2018 campaign for governor. Campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo is stepping into the communications director role, and Bryan Griffin will continue as press secretary.
The DeSantis campaign has already laid off roughly a dozen people, NBC News reported. Campaign officials said that, as of now, they don’t plan any more budget-related layoffs. (read more)
Again, it won’t work. Everything is fake, manufactured, astroturf, based on a foundation of fraud… And, inauthentic.
The candidate sucks and the candidate’s wife is a Cindy McCain clone trying to be more like Sarah Palin. Yup, more fakery.
The smallness of their naked ambition is as visible as the artificial nature of the pretending that began long before the “book tour.” They are in the self-fulfilling downward spiral where every effort extended to ask people to like them only looks more pathetic and weaker.
Once they have played out the cancer card, they’re done.
You know it’s over when they announce a “new approach”. He should remain as governor and bide his time for ’28.
And get rid of the RINO frauds running him.
The original product needs adjustment when it is as flawed as it was when it was marketed.
“The brighter side of America”? The “carrot”? Casey? Who’s running now?
Their kids are “too little to read the “negative” stuff”. Make belief that they just discovered new “Assets” in the “we are fighting for you and your family” when all along she has been using them for the RDS campaign promotion spiel.
TRUMP 2024!!! MAGA
Have you ever made meatballs with cheap low grade ground beef?
When cooked they shrink away to nothing.
The only way to stop that from happening is to add more filling.
Mmmmmmm … white bread crumbs. Hahahaha ha ha
But you have to do something with all that grease?
But, remember this, “We will never back down!” DeSantis doesn’t understand how politics works. The word itself should give him a clue. The people want to hear his policy ideas. If he has any good policy ideas, the people will listen to him. We all know what we want to see in a President, and DeSantis is a bumbler who is obviously in over his head.
As a Floridian, Sundance has been watching him a lot longer than most of us and I guess I could have just listened to his postings about Meatball from the beginning. I have now seen enough of this bozo. I wanted to get to know about him because I have doubts as to whether President Trump can overcome the Demcommies again. It still looks to me like the DC Swamp intends to install another President no matter how the We the People vote. I don’t see much that has been done to prevent that.
The majority of the Senate club is scared to death they will lose their status in the Club to ever assert their own State’s rights in Washington, and MAGA is still a minority in the House of Representatives. Only the Supreme Court seems to be getting a handle on how corrupted our Government has become, and they only have one real power that is still legitimate.
Our hope is another term for President Trump. Our own complacence has gotten us into this situation. Trump will win if he can convince The People that he has some good new ideas to implement in 2025 and beyond. I don’t think The People want a re-run of the 2020 vote counting fiasco. The hurdle is real, and it still looks like President Trump is the best person to jump it.
I have been saying for awhile POLitics is about POLicy, however the paid political consultants, satisfying the demands of the Uniparty, DO NOT want campaigns to be about POLICY, because the policies they advocate for are indefensible, as Sundance has pointed out many times.
This is why they try to make campaigns about PERSONALITY, and use ‘wedge’ issues and divisive politics, because THEY do NOT want a debate on actual POLICY.
This is the genius of PDJT’s America First policy agenda, it makes the election about POLICY, and forces them into a losing position because they can not defend their policies.
They are effectively running on Open Borders, Higher taxes, more regulation, inflation and higher energy costs to prevent the oceans rising 1/4″ in 300 freakin years, as PDJT says.
Hence, the consultants craft a narrative, a ‘story’ and try to package and sell the Candidate, whil minimising and deflecting attention AWAY from what POLICIES he/she may support.
Yes indeed and DeSantis will still not talk about how globalism hurts Americans however his campaign reimages itself as per his billionaire masters have mandated.
The Candidates and Elected Officials come and go, but the Pol Consultants remain as King Makers doing the bidding of their biggest Backers/Donors,.. cuz to most, it’s a biz, no matter which campaigns win or lose,.. they remain.
I really wonder if we will look back on this era of politics as the end of the Paid Political Consultant?
PDJT doesn’t use them, KL doesn’t use them,…if you are authentic, you don’t NEED them, and they only get in the way.
“PDJT doesn’t use them, KL doesn’t use them,…if you are authentic, you don’t NEED them, and they only get in the way.”
Hence the rabid hatred of both PDJT and KL.
If Karl Rove is on your team…I’m not on it!
One Dubya is enough for my lifetime?
Take heart. I keep hearing about many strategic operation ground mechanisms happening no one is hearing or talking about (for good reason.)
Millions of $ & 10’s of 1,000’s Patriots are going in to known & suspected fraud centers to grab up false ballots BEFORE distribution. Other ground operations like that, too.
President Trump isn’t fooling around when he says “Guard the vote.” If asked, you’ll do your part, right? I sure will & bet most here will, too. 😊
I thought SC was better on the election but I just learned that the State AG has refused to let a group see the past ballot information. There are lawsuits to open them but the State RNC Chair is fighting it.
There is a reason why Nikki and Tim are running? To win isn’t it!
A huggier RDS is a creepier RDS. And I’m sorry, but hugging Casey would be like hugging a razor blade. G-d forgive me.
And trying to imitate a lion when you’re a rat, just gets you caught in a rat trap.
he should have invested time to understand that the maga is aware of the Shrubs, and their malign network. but that was a strategic mistake to take that bit in his teeth.
HOST OF WHAT’S MY LINE?
Will the real Ron DeSantis please stand up.
RON
Which one?
that was “To Tell the Truth”, not “What’s My Line”
You’re right. Thanks!
Best illustration in MONTHS, “What, me govern?”
“A foundation of FRAUD” … cannot stand. It’s shifting sand. To quote My Lord.
Our team can move on from the fight against DeSantis. Next Rino, please step up.
what about new platform shoes?
The interview was like watching someone try to squeeze blood from a turnip.
Try as you might, it just ain’t there.
A lot of us want to go back to elections that are one day. Mollie Hemingway talks about how the Republicans should handle elections as they now exist. She suggests that Florida has a system that the GOP should adopt nationwide.
Oh no, not only no, HELL NO. FL is very very corrupt.
https://rumble.com/v2zv3ci-caroline-wren-trump-prioritized-fighting-for-the-voiceless-and-ending-human.html
Typical “professional”, career politician. If the message they’re putting out puts off the ‘rubes’, change the message to something the ‘rubes’ will like. Shuck and jive in the old parlance.
P.S. They use the same tactic in professional ‘wrestling’, (snort), when they want to make the ‘bad guy’ a ‘good guy’.
“Face” turn.
Bucket of balls
She got the balls?
I sense the campaign shift is toward getting the suburban soccer mom types.
Not in any hopes of winning, they know they can’t.
But just to try and damage Trump.
Although they may have known they had no shot from the beginning and the plan all along was to re-elect a Dem.
Hey Meatball in the dulcimer tones of Monday Night Footballs Dandy Don Meredith (RIP)! Turn out the lights, the party is over!!! 😝😝😝😝😝
it’s official Ron is incompetent
Ron, take this as a sign. This is not your time. If you continue, you will self-immolate and be useless for the future. Wisdom is knowing when to say when.
“Walmart Melania.” Damn! If the stakes for the republic weren’t so high, and their naked ambition so blatant, I’d feel bad for her. Politics is brutal.
Loved the classic Alfred E Newman icon.
The more you struggle in the quick sand, the further and faster down you go.
No regrets for those who knew better but failed to control themselves. I believe we have left the realm of a hubris syndrome and are now dealing with a full blown narcissistic personality disorder.
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Looks like comments being censored and taken down , 4 that I know of today?
For the uppity folks in the back!: America smells the bull crap from miles away now. They’re no longer buying your snake oil. Too many awakened who see right through you. No amount of trickery will work en masse. America hit critical mass between 2016-2019 and the cement dried up in 2020 during COVID. Your days of influence and rule are over. We’re in a transition period. You’re just too selfish and egotistical to realize it. Face it, your hubris blinds you greatly.
I had to quit watching when he said he started thinking about running in Nov 2020…Before he ran for Guv in 2022?
FYI: He started in 2018 and possibly earlier?
Oh, he wants your taxes? But not to MAGA!