So much "winning". “He started the primary on third base and stole second,” said David Jolly, who served with DeSantis as a fellow Republican member of Congress from Florida. “We’ve now witnessed one of the most expensive and embarrassing collapses in Republican history.” DeSantis’ 2023: More Than $160 Million Spent To Buy A Collapse In The Polls https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-2023-more-160-million-130025789.html
Even his own state GOP party is getting tired of DeSantis being missing in action. DeSantis is a long way from Florida. Lawmakers at home have noticed. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/ron-desantis-campaign-legislature-florida-00134265
So much "winning". DeSantis’ Ex-Pollster Says He’s a ‘Dead Man Walking’ on Campaign Trail https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-ex-pollster-says-dead-225539738.html Ron DeSantis’ former pollster didn’t mince his words this week when analyzing the state of the Florida governor’s presidential campaign, telling the Miami Herald that “rookie mistakes” and a “comedy of errors” have made his old boss a “dead man walking” on the campaign trail. Whit Ayres, a member of of DeSantis’ successful gubernatorial campaign in 2018, said he no longer sees “a path forward” for DeSantis this presidential-election cycle, in which he’s plummeted from being a realistic challenger to Donald Trump to barely fending off Nikki Haley for second place in the Iowa caucuses on Monday. Things are only expected to get worse for DeSantis in New Hampshire, where polls suggest he could finish a distant third. “He’s hanging on by his fingernails,” Ayres told the Herald. “He misunderstood the electorate, he made a bunch of rookie mistakes. It’s almost been a comedy of errors, and it’s hard to see where he goes now.” Read it at Miami Herald