Steve Schmidt explains why Ron DeSantis' campaign is completely collapsing

promised a reset of his presidential campaign. Many of his campaign staffers are still waiting. Several leagues believe the Republican candidate's bid lax of coherence, strategy and message. According to people familiar with the campaign, the operation is disorganized, with different teams pursuing their own agendas a little communication between groups, said the people familiar, who requested anonymity to discuss the campaign's inner workings. There's a couple of things going on

in that paragraph. First, the Ron de Santa's campaign is disintegrating, and the evidence is the leaks. Nancy Cook's anonymously sore story makes clear that the voices from inside the campaign expressing such worry are the very people who are responsible for the campaign reset. The rond de Santa's staff, but they feel siloed, disconnected, and disorganized. One of the things that happens when a campaign starts to disintegrate is the

leaking starts. It marks a collapse of discipline, of teamwork, and the Ronde de Santis campaign has reached that pathetic stage. It's important to remember Ron DeSantis isn't running to be mayor of Tallahassee. Ron de Santis is running to be president of the United States. He is a micromanaging freak show. To say the least, Ron de Santis has never managed anything, never run anything besides the state of Florida, which he's done well, let's just say, ineffectively for the last five years.

Despite his twenty point reelection bid. What Ron de Santis has done is declared war on the state's largest employer in Stoke, a jihad against the educational system in Florida. Now, Florida voters may like that a bit, but it's not effective leadership. This incredible paragraph details what a sorry manager Ron de Santis is. Even posting an official message on x the platform formerly called Twitter, is rife with bureaucracy.

According to the people briefed on the communication, strategy. The governor and his wife, Casey DeSantis must personally approve many of the messages, a process that can take two days and can slow their ability to respond to campaign developments. They said, some at the highest rungs of the campaign leadership consider the operation flawed and worry they are watching the Florida governor's chances of winning the GOP nomination slip away. Let's talk about Ron de Santis' acumen as a manager.

He aspires to be the commander in chief of the American military, the head of state of the government of the United States President. He runs an operation where it takes two days two days to approve a tweet, and apparently the only people that Ron Desantus trusts to approve the tweet are him and his wife, Casey. What that reflects is a paranoid style of decision making, a culture of mistrust. He's someone who's simply not capable of leading and managing Harold it is a viable challenger to front

runner Donald Trump. DeSantis has slid in the polls, committed a series of missteps, and alarmed donors following his campaign kickoff. With his spending and strategy, the candidate promised the reset, but his own aides are frustrated and disappointed, and a sense of gloom permeates his Tallahassee headquarters, according to people familiar with the operation, Well, you don't say a sense

of gloom has descended on the DeSantis campaign. A fog of despair, if you will, hangs over the headquarters, the Fura bunker of the Tallahassee Mussolini. I wonder how the immigrants, the men, the women, the children, dazed, confused, bewildered and lost in a land where they didn't speak the language, and they knew no one when round Desantas shipped them off tomorrow at this vineyard for a freezing Christmas Eve.

The reset hasn't exactly stopped him from making one unforced error after the other, said Wit Airs, a GOP polster who worked on the sant As a successful twenty eighteen gubernatorial race. His issue is just he had a hard time dealing with people. Now, before continuing, isn't it important to be able to deal with people just as a

general proposition, a human proposition. Now, if you want to lead the people to be their president, to be the head of state, the commander in chief of a system where it is a government of the people, by the people, for the people, showing the person who seeks to be in charge not to stain the people. Thank you for listening to my political commentary. If you like what you heard today, please also consider subscribing to The Warning daily

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very rarely discussed on cable news. Please send up at Steve Schmidt ste Ve scch m I DT dot substack dot com again Steve Schmidt dot substack dot com, or at the link in the show notes section below. Thank you to each and every one of you for listening and watching. There is pressure to turn around the campaign before the first Republican debate on August twenty third in Milwaukee.

Were by September, when the governor and his wife think that most Americans will start paying attention to the presidential raise set a fundraiser who attended a recent DeSantis retreat for donors in Park City, Utah. Now Park City, Utah is my hometown. And the DeSantis campaign, which is broke, decided to host their comeback meeting at the thousand dollars a night stein Ericson Lodge. What a why expenditure of the donor's money and a perfect setup for Nancy Cook's

next paragraph. Dessat has fired one third of his campaign staff, focused his travel to early voting states, and started holding more intimate events and interacting more with mainstream media. But it is not clear to supporters or campaign officials if the reset has been sweeping enough. I'm going to be the one to break the bad news to you. The reset is not working, and the reset will not work.

The gloom and the despair, embrace it because the center you do, the sooner that the Santas campaign will be over. And that's a good thing for America. When you're losing a campaign, the whining and the complaining and the poor may always comes. And that was before the Republican Party became a great cult of victimization. Let's listen to how Lambert, a DeSantis donor, he seems particularly delusional. I think the

reset is going great. He's getting out in front of the media a whole lot more and rolling out more policy proposals in the near future, said how Lambert, a donor in Texas finance executives. Some campaign officials want the reboot to go further. Donors and allies are urging the governor to stop talking so extensively about his record in Florida and culture war fights and broaden his message to appeal to the concerns of voters in places like Iowa. Quite a revelation there. You don't have to be a

political genius to figure it out. If you live, let's say, in Iowa, Carolina or New Hampshire, you really don't want to hear somebody give an our speech about Florida because you don't live there and you don't give a shit. And that's a big part of Ron DeSantis's problem, because he talks incessantly about things that no one cares about,

and he's very strange on top of it. But besides talking about things that they don't care about, he also has decided to provoke them and antagonize them with a culture war that he's decided to launch against all of America's culture, and you know what, no one likes it,

not even the MAGA voters. Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to the pro deosatus never back down Superback, told Ruters Friday he won't give any more money He's given twenty million so far unless the guy governor attracts new major backers and adopts a more moderate approach. Supporters know the first debate will be a critical moment for DeSantis to introduce himself to Americans who are not familiar with him, several donors said, and they are eager to see how

he stacks up. The American people do know Ron DeSantis, They've gotten to know him, and they don't like him at all, and for good reason. Ron DeSantis's campaign is collapsing. It's all but over. It will long be remembered as a national joke, a punchline about what happens when a strange and paranoid fascist from Florida with his wife decides

that they alone can run and win presidential campaign. The most amazing thing about it is a few years from now, assuming the country's democracy survives, there'll likely be another Ron Deissantis, and they won't learn a single lesson from this Raan de Santis. That's the most amazing thing about American politics. It's the arrogance, the arrogance of people like Ron and Casey DeSantis. Watching them crash and burn is an awful lot of fun, isn't it