Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey, are accused of being meticulous micromanagers who refused to allow staffers to send campaign emails or tweets without their approval throughout the 2024 presidential race, former employees alleged in a new report.
The level of control the DeSantises exercised over the staff, many of whom had no experience working in a national political campaign, created “clogging” and led to repeated social media posts and fundraising emails being sent, several former DeSantis campaign aides told the Daily Caller.
“There was nothing anywhere in the organization that DeSantis or his wife didn’t have their finger on,” a former campaign official told the outlet.
“That includes tweets, everything.”
Another former aide said that “DeSantis had to approve every fundraising email.”
The Florida governor’s insistence on personally reviewing all communications rather than delegating the work created a “backlog,” with sometimes up to three days passing before submitted work was approved for release by the governor or his wife, according to a former campaign official.
“They only had 1-3 form emails going out because DeSantis had to review every fundraising email before it went out,” said a former staffer. “So in addition to the failed launch on Twitter Spaces, they ran the same messaging for days due to congestion.”
Sometimes days passed before DeSantis or his wife approved the communication to be released, according to a former campaign staffer. AP
Another former aide recalled that it “would sometimes take two or three days to get a tweet approved for people in a digital campaign because it had to go through this very difficult bureaucratic structure of approval.
“Both the governor and the first lady need to see different tweets before they go live,” they added.
DeSantis ended his White House bid earlier this month after a tumultuous eight months on the campaign trail.
After a landslide victory in re-election for governor in 2022, DeSantis, 45, is widely seen as the Republican most likely to defeat former President Donald Trump, 77, in the GOP primary.
However, his support peaked in national polls months before the launch of his presidential campaign, during a troubled Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk last May.
The governor’s wife, Casey, was involved in reviewing her husband’s presidential campaign materials, according to reports. Getty Images
The DeSantis campaign underwent multiple messaging “resets” and laid off large numbers of staff just two months into the doomed campaign.
Last November, a near-fight reportedly broke out when tempers flared during a strategy meeting of a super PAC aimed at opposing then-surging former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s campaign.
The DeSantis-backed Never Back Down Super PAC saw several leaders and strategists resign in the weeks after the fiery meeting.
DeSantis finished second in the Iowa caucuses but suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump before the New Hampshire primary, citing a lack of a clear path to victory.
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