Ron DeSantis slashes more than a third of staff as campaign flounders
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6D942)
Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful cuts 38 jobs, including two senior advisers
On a day on which he emerged uninjured from an actual car crash in Tennessee, Ron DeSantis was reported to have made his most drastic attempt yet to turn round a presidential campaign seen as in danger of coming off the road itself, announcing a deep slashing of staff numbers.
Politico said advisers to the Florida governor confirmed that more than a third of campaign staff were being cut, a total of 38 jobs shed across an array of departments", two senior advisers among them.
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