{"id":1984153,"date":"2023-07-27T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-cutting-campaign-staff-about-focusing-on-what-matters\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:36:41","slug":"desantis-says-cutting-campaign-staff-about-focusing-on-what-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-cutting-campaign-staff-about-focusing-on-what-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis trims campaign staff to prioritize important matters."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-says-cutting-campaign-staff-about-focusing-on-what-matters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Gov. Ron DeSantis Refocuses Campaign\u2064 on\u200b Early States<\/h2>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has responded to\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-trump-religious-groups-begin-turning-up-heat-on-gop-to-take-action-on-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" title=\"Pro-Trump, Religious Groups Begin Turning Up Heat On GOP To Take Action On Marjorie Taylor Greene\">recent reports<\/a> \u200babout staff \u2063cuts in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">presidential campaign<\/a>,\u200c stating that these changes will allow his organization to concentrate on what truly matters. In an interview with Just the News, the Florida governor revealed that his campaign is now\u2064 prioritizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-read-the-memo-provided-to-vp-pence-noting-that-he-has-the-opportunity-to-save-the-country\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Read the Memo Provided to VP Pence Noting that He Has the Opportunity to Save the Country\">early states<\/a> in the 2024 \u2062GOP presidential primaries: Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis emphasized that his campaign is not a \u2063national endeavor,\u200c but\u200b rather a state-by-state effort. He explained,\u200b &#8220;It&#8217;s really about just focusing on \u2063what \u2062matters, which is these early states at the end of the day. And so that&#8217;s the commander&#8217;s intent. And our organization needs to reflect my intent.\u2063 And so now we&#8217;re doing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the campaign will be reducing its headquarters staff, DeSantis plans to expand his team in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-cutting-campaign-staff-about-focusing-on-what-matters\/\" title=\"DeSantis trims campaign staff to prioritize important matters.\">early stage fields<\/a>. He\u200c stated, &#8220;We&#8217;re going\u200d to be lighter at\u200d the headquarters, but we&#8217;re going to start adding more people in\u200d the early stage fields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner confirmed earlier reports of staff reductions,\u2062 with campaign manager Generra Peck explaining that the\u200d changes were part of a comprehensive review of the organization.\u2062 Peck stated, &#8220;Following a \u200dtop-to-bottom review of our organization, we have\u200d taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest \u200dposition to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since \u200bits launch in May, DeSantis&#8217;s presidential campaign has faced\u2063 challenges. While he has not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gops-youngkin-surges-as-democrat-mcauliffe-stumbles-into-home-stretch-before-election-day\/\" title=\"GOP\u2019s Youngkin Surges as Democrat McAuliffe Stumbles into Home Stretch Before Election Day\">gained significant ground<\/a> in the\u200c polls compared \u2063to former\u200d President Donald Trump, DeSantis has maintained a lead over \u2063other candidates in the field. According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump leads the Republican primary field\u2064 with \u206452.4%, followed by DeSantis with 18.4%, while no \u2063other candidate has more than 5.4%.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, along with several other Republican presidential candidates, is scheduled to speak at the\u200b Iowa \u200bGOP&#8217;s 2023 Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) defended the decision to release around 30% of his presidential campaign staff, stating that it will enable his organization to prioritize essential matters. In an interview with Just the News, he emphasized refocusing efforts on the early states for the 2024 GOP presidential race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}