Ron DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is sinking into oblivion – and that's filling Floridians with dread, columnist Fred Grimm writes for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

“Somehow, DeSantis has failed — so far — to captivate Republican voters despite his relentless exploitation of crafted-for-MAGA issues like race, abortion, immigration, guns, gender dysphoria, gay rights, drag queens, the Disney Company," Grimm wrote.

In a June 5 tweet, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he was sending Florida emergency services to help with a building collapse in Iowa, saying he was "proud" to offer help to the state.

But NBC News reports that the mission had been canceled 10 hours before his announcement.

With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) watching his campaign to upstage Donald Trump as the Republican Party's 2024 presidential frontrunner floundering, an MSNBC analyst suggested the governor's wife is having to be deployed to give a jolt to the moribund campaign.

In his column for MSNBC, Ja'han Jones wrote that Casey DeSantis is hitting the trail to make up for her husband's lack of warmth and personality that has been exposed since he left the friendly confines of Florida.

Convention organizers are pulling out of Florida, which is devastating knock-on tourism and causing panic over the future of the industry, experts warned in a report Friday.

When asked for a reason why they were scrapping plans, one organizer wrote simply: “Governor DeSantis.”

The conservative legal movement keeps racking up wins while the MAGA movement keeps stepping on rakes, according to a new analysis.

Elite right-wing lawyers have recently won U.S. Supreme Court victories invalidating affirmative action and upholding the right of some businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, but Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent noticed that MAGA Republicans have been beset by a "a string of disastrous setbacks."

Now that the drive for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination has kicked into high gear, advance people and campaign workers representing Donald Trump are alienating local GOP leaders with their brash tactics and by being argumentative with voters who don't back their man.

According to a report from the Daily Beast, Republicans in the key early primary state of New Hampshire are furious with the former president's advocates who have flooded the state.

As the Beast's Jake Lahut reported, at a recent parade "two over-eager Trump campaign staffers" charged to the front to hold up their signs for the former president in front of supporters of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

The report notes, "the move left an impression among plugged-in Republicans, who were buzzing about the slight in the days following the Fourth," with one local GOP official complaining the stunt was "juvenile" and then adding, "They should have been down there with their team. I mean, that’s just tacky.”

The complaint was filed by the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), citing as evidence a story published by The New York Times in May.

That story reported that DeSantis traveled to almost a dozen speaking engagements in eight states via a plane provided by And to the Republic, a Michigan 501(c)(4) issue advocacy organization, in February. The total costs of those flights are unknown. This trip was taken months before DeSantis officially declared that he was a candidate for president, although his travels across the country were hardly a secret at the time.

Casey DeSantis held a solo event with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Thursday, launching the “Mamas for DeSantis” group to mobilize mothers and grandmothers for the upcoming 2024 election cycle. At the Simpson Barn in Johnston, DeSantis told a crowd why parents should support her husband’s bid for the presidency.

“A lot of bad things going on — I can tell you with what Governor DeSantis has done, he will lead the charge, he will clean house and he will ensure that parents have the rights to be able to make the decisions that they think best for their family,” she said.