Ron and Casey DeSantis had to approve tweets, fundraising emails, creating ‘bottlenecks’ during doomed campaign: report 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey, are accused of being meticulous micromanagers who refused to allow staffers to send out campaign emails or tweets without their approval throughout his 2024 presidential race, former workers charged in a new report.

The level of control the DeSantises exerted on staffers, most of whom had no experience working on national political campaigns, created “bottlenecks” and led to repetitive social media posts and fundraising emails being sent out, multiple former DeSantis campaign aides told the Daily Caller.  

“There’s nothing anywhere in the organization, DeSantis or his wife don’t have their fingers on,” a former campaign official told the outlet.

“That includes a tweet, everything.”

Another former aide said that “DeSantis had to approve every single fundraising email.” 

The Florida governor’s insistence on personally reviewing all communications rather than delegating the chore out created a “bottleneck,” with sometimes as many as three days going by before submitted work was approved for release by either the governor or his wife, according to former campaign officials.

“They only had what looked like 1-3 form emails going out because DeSantis has to review every single fundraising email before it goes out,” a former staffer said. “So on top of a failed launch on Twitter Spaces, they ran with the same messaging for days because of the bottleneck.”

Another former aide recalled that it “would sometimes take two or three days to get a tweet approved for the people on the digital campaign because it had to go through these extremely arduous bureaucratic structures of approval. 

“Both the governor and the first lady had to look at different tweets before they went live,” they added. 

DeSantis ended his White House bid earlier this month after a tumultuous eight months on the campaign trail. 

Coming off a landslide gubernatorial re-election victory in 2022, DeSantis, 45, was widely seen as the likeliest Republican to beat 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 glitch-filled Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk this past May. 

The DeSantis campaign underwent multiple messaging “resets” and laid off a significant number of staffers just two months into the doomed campaign. 

Last November, a near-brawl reportedly broke out when tempers flared during a super PAC strategy meeting aimed at countering former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s then-surging campaign. 

The DeSantis-aligned Never Back Down super PAC saw several leaders and strategists resign in the weeks after the fiery meeting. 

DeSantis managed to finish second in the Iowa caucuses but suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump before the New Hampshire primary, citing the lack of a clear path to victory.