Ron DeSantis's Online Messaging Team Really Sucks
Opinion. Nov. 29, 2023. By Javier Manjarres
With a laundry list of legislative wins firmly tucked away under his gubernatorial belt, 2024 Republican presidential candidate and Governor Ron DeSantis is arguably the Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T) when it comes to past Florida governors, but his online messaging team sucks.
In my own opinion, and contrary to what many supporters of former President Donald Trump think, Gov. DeSantis is a very well-rounded and principled presidential candidate.
The problem DeSantis is having with voters across the nation is that he is running in a contested presidential primary race against a very popular former sitting U.S. president.
This has never happened before.
Second, while DeSantis has put together a really good team of advisors, including Ryan Tyson, James Uthmeier, David Polyansky, Sam Cooper, and Marc Reichelderfer,his communications and online team continue to be the weakest link in his political “full armor of God” presidential campaign.
While communication advisors like Lindsey Curnotte and Bryan Griffin have done a very good job promoting and staffing DeSantis, Andrew Romeo and Christina Pushaw have managed to allow themselves to be taken off message, and have continued to embarrass DeSantis with their knuckleheaded and bird-brained statements on social media.
Paper Tiger Pushaw
Pushaw, who recently ran for dear life after Laura Loomer confronted her at the Florida Freedom Summit, has become a huge liability for DeSantis, and even though DeSantis had reeled her in for making ill-advised social media posts, she is still on staff and appears to have been back to her old ways.
Loomer calls Pushaw a "paper tiger," accusing her of hiding behind a keyboard, and for helping to destroy DeSantis's online presence.
"When is he going to drop out? He’s polling at 8% nationally thanks to you. He can credit you for completely destroying his online influencer operation," said Loomer.
If DeSantis loses his race, regardless of how large of a margin he loses by,Pushaw will be seen as being a major contributing factor for his demise. (It apoears the tactics she learned in Ukraine and the EU doesn’t work here!)
Pushaw was managed to infuriate and offend every day Republican voters not just the "Magadonians" that make up a large portion of President Trump's base of support.
Just look at the really stupid move to createthe now-scrubbed Signal “War Room Creative Ideas.”
Pushaw runs the DeSantis’s War Room” on “X” and DeSantis defended her actions of using anonymous online accounts and “influencers” to disseminate anti-Trump political propaganda.
The campaign’s director of rapid response, Christina Pushaw, told staffers to create more videos and sent content to anonymous accounts that were allied with the campaign.
In one case, Pushaw shared a clip of Trump at a Fox News town hall and asked if the group knew “any Anons who might want it.”
She added, “if we post it or a named influencer posts it, it might get noted.”
These are the same tactics DeSantis zombies, many of whom are aligned with Pushaw, have been bitching and moaning about, and have accuesed Trump influencers of indulging in.
Does DeSantis also condone Pushaw’s recent and idiotic attempt to dig at Trump at the expense of a Holocaust survivor?
In response to a CNN story about a woman who was sentenced to 51 months in prison for stealing $2.8 million from the Holocaust survivor, Pushaw tweeted, “Trump 2028 campaign is gonna hire her when she gets out.”
Pushaw’s tweet appears to be an attempt to jab President Trump regarding the tens of millions of dollars his Save America Super PAC has spent on the former president’s legal fees and the legal fees of others.
Tasteless.
The morning after we posted on Pushaw dumb move, several close donors and supporters of Trump called us to gripe about her lack of tact by posting the remark.
Both donors questioned why she hasn’t been fired.
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Romeo, who has the personality and demeanor of a flaccid turnip, leads DeSantis’s communication shop.
The bucks stops with him.
Considering that DeSantis’s communications team has a combined political experience of about two months, its not hard to understand how they keep embarrassing DeSantis…
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