Bootsie is broke (if you consider $5M Ameros left in your campaign account to be broke):
The Florida governor’s presidential campaign entered this month with just $5 million in cash available for the primary, a sum that reignites doubts about his solvency, budgeting and ability to gain ground on front-running former President Donald Trump.
The pain is so acute that DeSantis is redeploying aides from his Tallahassee headquarters to Des Moines for the stretch run of a do-or-die Jan. 15 Iowa caucus. A better-funded operation might hire locally rather than shift resources. It’s a cost-saving move that past presidential campaigns have typically employed only as a last-ditch measure to save money — and look for a campaign-changing boost in an early state.
Now, one might ask his deep pocket donors to cough up some cheddar, but those money guys are looking for a ROI, and are realizing that Cracker Orbán is not ever going to pay off:
“The cash crunch has accelerated in the past month. It’s a huge problem,” said one DeSantis donor. “If it continues to trend downwards and Trump continues to poll ahead,at some point they’re going to have to figure out if it makes sense to pull out and save face for 2028.”
Yeah, he’s toast. I’ll be surprised if he makes it to Iowa at this point.
Republished with permission from Mock Paper Scissors.
