“After weeks of dwindling polls, Ron DeSantis is hitting the big old reset button.” MollyJongFast reports as the Florida governor's presidential campaign swerves to get back on course:
In vying for the White House, the DeSantis campaign
“burned through nearly 40 percent of every dollar he raised in his first six weeks without airing a single television ad,” according towhich notes the candidate’s “taste for private planes.” His advisers are now promising a “leaner-meaner” operation, per thewhich would reframe DeSantis’s candidacy as an “insurgent” run. DeSantis, notable, has never been a small-dollar candidate; most of his donations came from “donors who gave the legal maximum in the primary of $3,300.
DeSantis’s team tried convincing big-time donors on Sunday that the campaign was reining in spending and emphasized the new “insurgent” posture,a Florida-based lobbyist and fundraiser. “That’s what got him here. That’s what made him the leader that he is in Florida. We’re going back to our basics on all of this.”
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