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DeSantis, who is vying for the 2024 Republican presidential
nomination, is in second place in the large Republican field,
but he remains far behind former President Donald Trump, the
front-runner.
"Following a top-to-bottom review of our organization, we have
taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and
put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary
and defeat Joe Biden," DeSantis' campaign manager, Generra Peck,
said in a statement.
President Biden does not face a serious challenge for the
Democratic nomination.
While DeSantis' campaign raised about $20 million in the second
quarter, allies were concerned about how fast he burned through
that cash. He spent about $8 million during that period.
Most of the money came from donors who contributed the maximum
legal amount to his campaign and cannot contribute further this
election. That could pose financial difficulties for DeSantis if
he cannot increase the number of so-called "small dollar" donors
in the near future.
The campaign had more than 90 paid staffers in the second
quarter, according to filings with the Federal Election
Commission, an unusually high number for this stage in a
presidential campaign.
DeSantis had cut roughly a dozen staffers earlier in July. The
38 that he has cut overall includes those staffers who were
first eliminated.
(Reporting by Gram Slattery; editing by Ross Colvin and Jonathan
Oatis)
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