On the day his presidential campaign said it had laid off more than one-third of its staff to address worries about unsustainable spending, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida began his morning by boarding a private jet to Chattanooga, Tennessee. The choice was a routine one — DeSantis and his wife, Casey, haven’t regularly flown commercial for years — but also symbolic to close observers of his struggling presidential campaign. As DeSantis promises a reset, setting out Thursday on a bus tour in Iowa t
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Scott Olson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) The DeSantis campaign continues to shed staff, with more than a third of its original payroll now laid off, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The latest round of cuts were first reported by Politico and confirmed to ABC News by three people familiar, with one source telling ABC News that low- and mid-level staff are the ones being impacted.
The 38 individuals laid off by the campaign include the roughly dozen layoffs announced earlier this month, a round of cuts that saw the departures of the campaign s media director, Dave Abrams, and Tucker Obenshain, who led external affairs.
As ABC News has previously reported, the DeSantis campaign evaluated it burned through cash too quickly and hired too many people early in the campaign, with FEC documents indicating that 92 staffers worked for the campaign during its first fundraising period. The campaign also spent some $8 million in the first six weeks of the governor s presidential ru
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