This is not a surprise. This is not disappointing. This is not unexpected. This collapsing campaign, and the eventual complete campaign withdrawal, was entirely predictable. Ron DeSantis and everything around him is a big fibber.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for the lying, conniving, scheming and Machiavellian organization, as the DeSantis operation now starts to publicly embarrass itself and become the target of scorn and ridicule.
Keep in mind, the Florida legislature was pressured by the governor’s office to change the political sunlight laws – just so DeSantis could obfuscate his travel expenses and hide that he was flying around the country on private jets owned by billionaires and multinational corporations. They changed the damned law just because Casey and Ron did not want to fly commercial. Let that sink in.
(Via Politico) Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is expanding the number of staff it’s cutting to include more than a third of his payroll as the Florida governor looks to get his primary bid back on track.
The cuts, which were confirmed by advisers, will amount to a total of 38 jobs shed across an array of departments. They will include the roughly 10 event planning positions that were announced several weeks ago, in addition to the recent departures of two senior DeSantis campaign advisers, Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain.
“Following a top-to-bottom review of our organization, we have taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden,” DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck said in a statement. “Gov. DeSantis is going to lead the Great American Comeback and we’re ready to hit the ground running as we head into an important month of the campaign.”
The expanded cuts are the latest sign that the Florida governor’s team is pivoting to a slim-down operation amid concerns over their finances. The campaign announced it had raised $20 million during the second quarter of this year. But it had spent a good chunk of that money. Much of the sum it raised, moreover, came from donors who had given the maximum amount and could not give again.
According to recent federal filings, the campaign counted 90-plus staffers on its payroll through the end of June.
During a donor retreat in Deer Valley, Utah, last week, Peck acknowledged that the campaign had overspent in some areas and that further adjustments would need to be made. Advisers also outlined plans for DeSantis — who has been criticized for overseeing a bloated operation — to reposition himself as an insurgent underdog. They also said they would aim to reduce costs by doing smaller, more intimate events and cutting down its travel expenditures. (read more)
That “insurgent underdog” spin is particularly laughable when you consider that Karl Rove, the RGA, Paul Ryan, Ed Rollins, Jeb Bush and the entire apparatus of the approved republican coalition are aligned with Ron DeSantis. What exactly is the party selected candidate running as an insurgent against? 👀
Karl Rove organized donors and held events with him. The RGA gave him $20 million. Paul Ryan endorsed him. Ed Rollins organized PAC efforts for him, and Jeb Bush openly supported him. Oh, but he’s “an outsider“… lol 😂🤣😂 Just stop.
If DeSantis drops much more, we can do the maximum insult to him, by not talking about him anymore.
I’M NOT TIRED OF WINNING MR. PRESDIENT!
President Donald John Trump…say it RNC…SAY IT!
That’s right, Arminius…. SAY HIS NAME, RNC!!!!! SAY. HIS. NAME.
That’s the Honorable President Donald J. Trump to you, you fakers at the RNC.
Ron DeSantis’ poll numbers are so low, he’s underwater. If he gets any deeper Obama might hire him to be his personal chef.
Too soon?
🤔……..Naw.
The chef went under so he could find his meatball recipe, which is at the bottom of the sea.
THAT was funny Jeffrey!!!
MEATBALL is falling faster than Slick Willies pants at a trailer park.
Bwhahahah! Too funny!
Smort!! 🤣
😎
gotta be gay to be Obama’s personal anything.
Reggie Love? I agree.
Interesting:
i think they are putting the cart before the horse.
so some brilliant person named “Generra Peck” says:
“we have taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden”
I guess i am stupid.
In this PRIMARY election, his opponent is Republican Donald Trump. NOT, democrat joe biden.
the winner of the PRIMARY will oppose joe biden in the GENERAL election, not the PRIMARY.
Very clever gambit. DeSantis is certain to beat Joe Biden in the GOP primary, since Joe isn’t running.
You are so right! And he won’t run in the general either.
I think it will be Newsome in the general but he won’t campaign because there is now two billion behind the dem candidate. See Caroline When’s interview on War Room today and yesterday.
She is deliberately ignoring the elephant in the room, Trump. She can’t say his name either.
Yes. The cannot bring themselves to even say the name Trump OR they do not want to outwardly say that they want to defeat Trump.
Biden was the king of falling going upstairs. Ron is following him closer!
It’s both. They are saying he will win the primary then beat Biden in the general. It’s not hard logic.
Are we really this petty?
You think not mentioning PDJT isn’t intentional?
Hard Logic ????
LOL
Yes Ryan,
i think they are EXACTLY this petty in ignoring Trump.
i also think that Desantis doesn’t have a chance of winning either one, ie: beating Trump in the PRIMARY, much less Biden in the GENERAL
He can drop all the way to hell as far as I am concerned. And the elite GOP with him.
He deserves nothing less and I don’t even live in Florida.
Were in the money!
We’re in the money!
Let lend it spend it roll it around!
Ron DeSantis is the master of strategery. Feigning weakness until – SURPRISE! – he suddenly wins all the primaries.
It worked for Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, in Austin, Texas . . .
What? I live there what’s going on, nearby anyway
Democrats are not like MAGA. Democrats have many flavors of degeneracy and ignorance and foolishness, they have to band together because separately they are too small to matter. The rest of us normal folk do not listen to them. They are used to being corralled like alley cats, MAGA is the spirit of independence, they believe in God, his righteousness, truth and integrity. MAGA marches to God’s drummer not the popular drummer of the day.
When are the consultants going to get fired BY the billionaires?
When is the CANDIDATE going to get fired by the billionaires?
There, fixed it for you SueJeanne… 😁😂🤣
When the people are for you, you don’t need consultants.
His staff is now wondering if they will be fired by car accident.
Yay! Oh happy day…Slip sliding away…The nearer your destination, the more your slip sliding away…
It’s as if you predicted this SD 😉
Of course he dropped in the polls after firing 1/3 of his staff. They were polled after being fired. 😛
Good one
Insurgency against MAGA/Trump.
Freudian slip admitting they are the ‘underdogs’ & MAGA has usurped the GOPe!
BTW, is Meatball’s CIA handler, Pushaw, still on the payroll? Asking for a ‘friend.’
Yes, Miss Ukraine is on payroll, but in a very diminished role. SD talked about it a couple weeks ago.
“Diminished,” or so ‘they’ say. Keeping an 👁️ on him.
Her Lips,they’re still hang’in around👄🦆🦆👄
So true! In other words, ‘Don’t miss this season’s top comedy hit film’: Meatball v. Godzilla (hint: it doesn’t end the way you think!).
I guess 2028 doesn’t look good for RD, either. Oh well. Bye bye.
A word of encouragement to all Treepers: Notice that despite all the kings horses and all the kings men; and all the donors; and all the establishment pooh bahs pulling for him; Ron DeSantis is sinking faster than Barack Obama’s personal chef.
That means our votes DO in fact count. The GOPe and Democrats wouldn’t be so frantic about 2024 if the game were truly as “rigged” as some fear. There is a very real possibility that President Trump makes history by returning to the White House in January 2025.
“Ron DeSantis is sinking faster than Barack Obama’s personal chef.” It’s 95° where I’m at right now, and the cold breeze from that one is still felt. You’re killing it, Jeff
They changed the damned law just because Casey and Ron did not want to fly commercial. Let that sink in.
Right, and every time the law is changed in favor of the elite the rest suffer the outcome of consequences of those changes.
There is a word for it, ____________ . . . I’ll let others fill in the blank for themselves.
Grifter, trickster, cheat(er), deceiver, cardsharker, card sharp, gouger, con man, con artist, swindler, beguiler, sharpie, welcher, slicker, clip artist, chiseler, scammer, defrauder, fox, straw man, misleader, wangler, traitor, front man, defalcator, phony, fake, two-timer, peculator, decoy, figurehead, pseudo, faker, wrongdoer, imitator, dissimulator, sham. embezzler, offender, slyboots, impersonator, hypocrite, dissembler, utterer, role player, obscurantist, fraud, four-flusher, imposter, mountebank, falsifier, counterfeiter, dodger, bluffer, pretender, double-dealer, finagler, betrayer, phoney, sandbagger, charlatan, nominal head, forger, double-crosser, prevaricator, steerer, fortune hunter…or, my favorite, liar.
Impressive length!
Weed layin’, back stabbin’, no good, bush whackin’, low-down, varmints.
In my best Yosemite Sam voice possible.
Ya’ll only left me one… Egg-suckin.
You forgot flimflam man. Lol
This is the part where MAGA people put the humor to this sinking ship!
So the bloated, self important GOP shot callers are being rejected. Big surprise. Karl Rove, Paul Ryan and Ed Rollings, please, just these 3 endorsing dishonest trash like Rhonda DeSoros is enough to cause a nosedive. Jeb Bush, really? Who cares what that doofus drools? Nobody apparently. In the event the big club GOP hasn’t figured it out, conservatives and independents couldn’t be any more obvious rejecting everything about them. They will never sway the MEGA base and everything they do that is anti-PDT actually benefits PDT.
Hey, now. JEB! has lotsa money and charisma, Oldretiredguy.
Meanwhile, at the Austin Texas Kennel Club Annual Dog and Pony Show…
‘”Let’s give a warm welcome for our Honorary Host, JEB! ‘Mr. Charisma’ Shrub! ” [Off stage: pssst! That’s Bush.]
Please clap.
‘Who is Paul Ryan?’ was the answer to a Jeopardy category about Romney’s VP candidate and nobody got it. Of course, not surprising for most of those contestants.
After governor he’ll be working for Disney. He had a good show that perhaps he could have worked on or likely it would have just delayed the big reveal. I’ll admit I was all in on and voted for him in Florida. Disappointed but maybe in myself that I bought in.
Mr Meatball’s Wild Ride.
Mr Meatball’s Spaghetti Slip n Slide…
The other option was unspeakable. Ron has redeeming qualities that have been overshadowed by his ugly ones.
Good point BZAZ…throughout my career I have done in-person group presentations to business owners, prospects, clients, etc. I always set the room up so that I had to pull in extra chairs and tables…nothing worse than an empty chair…that then becomes the focus of the room.
Yep they will hit the ground running back to florida at best.
Biden’s campaign was faked but all of a sudden he started to win in the primaries while he was running from his basement.
Who will the rinos put up if it aint desantis?👀🦨
Kemp or Youngkin…..wait for it…..
Youngkin already declared a few months back that he wasn’t running.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-no-2024-presidential-run/
Ugh, Tim Scott In an attempt to pull in the Black vote.
Remember 2016? First, the GOPe backed Jeb! (please clap)
Then, they shifted their support to … LIttle Marco?
Finally, they shifted their support to Ted Cruz.
It’ll be funny watching them jump from sinking ship to sinking ship as President Trump once again runs the table.
Yep, they’re hoping one of theirs will be in position when they finally have Trump with the “walls closing in” for the 5000th time.
My money’s on Ted Cruz biding his time to step into that spot; it’s been his crew of election staffers that have been diligently working for (against?) the meatball and he, Cruz, with that enormous ego has been very busy getting facetime on the news and internet sites saying ‘all the right things’ projecting ‘all the right emotions’.
I doubt it, he doesn’t want to be a two time loser.
true.
Yep, looking ugly at DeSantis-land:
https://markamerica.com/2023/07/25/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ron-desantis/
By the way, seeing the Luntz tweet above pretty much confirms what’s said in the video clip in my blog post. It’s laughable to see the FoxNews crew pushing Ryan’s list(which is Rupert’s list).
Bannon says Rupert is dumb….starting to believe it.
Nice write-up MarkAmerica. A few weeks ago I wrote here that Casey may want this more than RDS but Casey herself may be the exit strategy…
“Due to my wife’s ongoing medical dynamics I am suspending my campaign until we have a clearer prognosis of what she is dealing with…thank you for understanding our need for privacy in this sensitive matter. I will be back with an update soon. Our work is not done.”
Do they really use phrases like “medical dynamics” in cases like this? Yes, they probably do. Sounds just fuzzy enough to say nothing and yet go over.
Oh bummer. Darren Shaw is on Neil Cavuto’s show.
Darren Shaw is not happy. Not at all happy.
The guv spent too much, too fast.
Time to take Mr Arrogant to heel.
Any reason why you might be watching Neil Cavuto?
My thoughts exactly. Cavuto is a news actor swamp rat to the bone.
Wanting to hear more whining and huffing and puffing.
That guy is like nails on a chalkboard to listen to.
The consultant parasite class sucked the Meatball Campaign dry very quickly.
It’s almost as if they knew that he would crash and burn so rapidly.
They had to plunder his coffers faster than the normal time frame.
Nice.
Political Prostitutes set their meters on double-time!
He went from flying first class on billionaires jets to riding in a wrecked Hyundai going to Tennessee to beg for support. Guess what Ron the people in Tennessee don’t like backstabbing cowards like you.
Get your ass back in your wrecked last class ride and get out of Tennessee.
Jet setting to car pooling, haha.
I’d say the money has been cutoff. LOL
Want be long and he will be back in Florida, hiding.
Guess he was in TN looking for volunteers…
Lol
Living in Tennessee, I come across people, whether it be the post office, the grocery store clerk, the drugstore clerk, people standing in a line anywhere, and THEY ALL say the same thing: The election was stolen, we’re living under a coup, our US reps are useless, our governor sucks. Tennesseans are pretty MAGA, and they’re not falling for the Meatball or any other RINO.
Our governor has the sads! 🤣🤣🤣
These people can’t be this dumb. Who in their right mind would think he can come back and win?
go back to Florida Ron, if they will have you. We got this one.
He needs to fix Florida. That is what he was hired to do.
Aggie
He’s already done damage that hasn’t even been recognized yet.
Watch the state of affairs here in Florida deteriorate worse than they are now starting 2025 at earliest, by 2017 absolute.
2027 not 2017
Lol, we knew you weren’t time traveling “Back to the Future.” 🤣
Please share what’s happening in 2025. TIA.
RdS has sold Florida out to Corporatists and preweaponized the state for a Blue Tyrant.
Very likely many schemes enacted already that have not yet come to light.
Returning to his Florida gig with angry greedy donors having him by the short hairs he will be dancing to their tune to extract maximum value from their loser.
Lots of legislation, policy changes, orders that aren’t good long term (multitude to go into).
It appears they way they were designed to be implemented or the effects to show up were designed to come into effect after the 2024 election. Timing appears to be constructed for a 2 year window should he lose POTUS bid and remain in Tallahassee until his term expedite.
I think Sundance touched on this subject (not the timing) in the recent past.
It ain’t good!
He is an “open” traitor and shows no remores for his treatment of President Trump. He is without a conscience. Casey too. I do not see how they thought this scenario would fly?! We are not stupid people. The agony of defeat is headed his way.
Like I said before, Rubio better watch his back. When the Governor gig is over Ron will be looking for another government paycheck.
He is toast. I guarantee after he leaves governor job Casey is gonna divorce his worthless ass. She will start looking to hook some other poor fellow.
“Like I said before, Rubio better watch his back.”
So you’re predicting some foam-on-foam conflicts after DeSantis is out of office?
My opinion of ‘Lil Marco isn’t any higher than that of Ron DeSantis.
“Ready for Ron?”
Vs.
Make America Great Again!
I’ll take the Reagan tribute over the Hillary clone any day.
What a glorious thing to watch. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone. Getting a Uniparty establishment faker out of politics and letting the establishment know they have no more power in politics. Thanks Ron! for taking 1 for the team. Your lack luster, pretending, and drab personality have saved us from having to pretend you were going to be the future of maga!
The rejection of the GOP elitists is just one-half of the situation. It’s not like the other half is all peaches and cream.
“There’s something happening here…”
They changed the Sunlight law just because Casey and Ron did not want to fly commercial.
President Trump has Trump Force 1 because he earned it from a lifetime of hard work. RdS and JdS are jealous, and fake, like their entire campaign.
These guys are the same guys that don’t want us in their club … I just love the view from the outside! GOPe tears are soooooo sweet!
Full article: https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/greitens-accept-it-already-desantis-is-done/
Damn that was a blistering rebuke of Desanctimus. I can’t stop laughing at Ron and his money hungry worse half.
Wow, from 2 to 18 upvotes with one like. Greitens’s star is really rising, eh? And we thought Schmitt and Hawley were the MO superstars!
Part of Greitens’ appeal is his battles with the deep state. He didn’t lie down and die, he kept fighting, and won. He seems to be cut from the same cloth as PDJT.
Love the analogy, Sundance.
Trump is Godzilla. The GOPe still does not get it.
They hated the Tea Party movement and they hated the Tea Party even more when Trump became it’s Voice.
People we have less time now to protect the Vote. Get involved on your local level to help out in every area to protect the vote. A worker, watcher, taxi to get people registered and drive them on election day and help with the early and absentee votes too.
I’m starting to look at how this is going to affect me. We are now going to have a lame duck governor for the next three and a half years whose anger and vindictiveness is notorious. And now he’s mad at us. And the people that gave him all that money are going to want him to do a lot of things to make up for his disastrous performance in the campaign. Not good
Yep. Floridians are going to governed by damaged goods for a while.
Could be quite bad for them.
I fear he will turn the state blue.
Where’s Ron? It’s bad now. 38 years here. Everything has become unaffordable to the normal working class. Insurance for any thing from property to auto is OUTRAGEOUS. Property taxes are over the top. Home prices have increased over 200%, rental prices are mortgages. Fuel and Food just keep climbing. Our Governor has spent his time on the Woke agenda and not the economic breakdown we are experiencing. His donors are the insurance and financial companies, the big business, the elites. All of his so called woke agenda fix is tied up in court as is the Disney adventure. He changed the FL constitution without our consent. Ron hasn’t even campaigned to the citizens of Florida yet. Of course we just re-elected him Nov 22 unknowingly. He is with us until 2026. RdS is currently shitting in our faces. I’m not a happy camper.
MAGA has also made fools of the Florida Legislature.
I think you need to start contacting your State reps and senators and let them know to do what’s best for the State and not what’s best for “The governor.”
You are 100% correct. When The Meatball is forced out of the race, fingers will be pointed, first at Trump, then at you, Florida MAGA residents, then the rest of us. DeSanctimonious will be mean, vindictive, and heartless to the MAGA base. The whole establishment will. They have been trying to “put us in our place” for 7 years now. Too bad for them – we are not going back to establishment politics. It’s MAGA or bust.
Ed Rollins = professional sucker fish / better known as a “political consultant” . Certainly are a lot of “We’s” in his tweet – And to think I used to have a modicum of respect for him for his work for Ronald Reagan , which he never failed to mention in any interviews I happen to see ….well glad to see people’s real stripes being exposed …
He helped Buchanan too at one point. I was fooled by Ed Rollins until this cycle.
‘Undermined’ Buchanan. Fixed it for you.
Being a regular guest on Lou Dobbs’ show may have fooled some into thinking Ed Rollins had some MAGA credibility. But, alas, NO.
Didn’t /Don’t watch cable – used to hear him on local radio as a guest on occasion , where he would be commenting and playing the role as the “political historian” , and not the “political whore” that he apparently is …
BZAZ, that is a trick for life that most people don’t realize. Everything that’s great and giant at one time was great and tiny. And they learned along the way. And improved, and improved, and improved.
In Team Meatball’s case, it was pure contempt for Trump and arrogance in themselves.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/07/25/the-five-states-sending-the-most-high-earners-to-florida-all-have-this-one-thing-in-common-n1713335
DeSantis is an odious little troll. I can’t help but giggle about his ‘fall’, but that’s what happens when you drink the GOPe kool-aid. He got ahead of himself and exposed himself. Did he actually think he could pick up the MAGA voters by waiting in the wings, hoping one of the charges sticks to President Trump? If so, DeSantis is delusional. #NeverDeSantis!
…who?
he’s lucky Florida does not have a election recall law.
Anything to do with the firings?
RDS in car accident while traveling to event in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Seeking volunteers…
Probably should have waited for the car to stop before firing the driver.
You’re on a roll today! 😀
👆Jeffrey has been hilare all day!🤣😂🤣
I caught myself thinking, “Only if he had supported VSGPDJT now and joined his ticket…”
But, NO!!! That’s how we got the Brutus, Pence. I’d like to think that he just got in over his head. But, NO! He always had the lack of character and charisma. But mostly the lack of character. No one can force you to sell out your character. You make that choice all on your own.
And I thank God that he sold it out early enough for us all to see that he has no character!
Donald Trump doesn’t need the republican party to win. He’s about to show them that when the debates start.
Trump will win inspite of the Republican Party.
Listing hard to port and taking on water. Boilers cold. Readying the life boats.
Prepare for the order to abandon ship.
Passengers are movable ballast…
PassengersVoters aremovabledisposable ballast…Well, she didn’t mention where they were moving them to . . .
haven’t had that much fun in I don’t know when! lol! who’s next?
I was accused of being on Ron DeSantis’ team.
Funny that, farthest thing from the truth. A poster took a potshot, at my comment on the Bannon thread July 16. Other newbie posters also appeared to do the same.
Not amusing, they just took the low road.
Quote : Dantes Is A White Cat
Congrats on surviving Team Ron’s cuts in staff due to financial problems.
Shake my head
No free speech eh.
I’m really a bit surprised how fast he’s deflated
But you don’t stab the man who made you in the back for 30 pieces of silver
Nobody wants a Judas
Authenticity is king now. The voters can smell a fraud a mile away now.
Half the country would put on a N95 tomorrow if Latrine Saint-Peeou says to.
… and hence RUINS any political future. Good riddance. Next politician up for utter contempt and ruin? The uniparty corruption line is long….
Ron’s exit strategy is Hurricane season.
He is probably watching the weather channel 24/7
Ronnie Rino your polling is showing you and your Rino traitor’s donors that you losers are finished. So, drop out and go back home take care of Florida and then slink off into obscurity…………..
Guess we could drag out that meme about Trump being our murder weapon, and the GOP being the target.
Desanty goes down maybe he can take Media with him, why are they stuck on Desanty? their game plan failing, and they keep pushing. They must believe Trump will be put in check,
They’re doing everything they can to help the DCMafia take out Trump, without being seen to obviously assist in taking out Trump. It’s what they’re all about.
The swamp is having a conversation with themselves at this point. This is for the enemy MSM to have ceaseless conversation about the Republican field and how they’d do better against B-B-Biden and the uniparty cheat system.
Interesting observations from the New Tucker Carlson biography:
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/report-tucker-describes-pence-as-a-sinister-figure-in-new-tell-all-biography-creepy-as-hell-hulk/?utm_medium=agg&utm_source=economics
Interesting.
Pence is a back stabbing GOPe swamp dweller.