This article will take a few minutes to read because it's really long, but it's worth it because it's a complete burial of DeSantis and how his campaign was run.
themessenger.com
Some quotes:
At 45 years old, DeSantis had no close senior advisers older than he, and he had a reputation for disregarding advice and data that conflicted with his opinions (on abortion, for instance). Known for demanding loyalty he doesn’t frequently reciprocate, DeSantis established a top-down campaign structure designed to give him information he wanted to hear.
Critical voices didn’t last in the campaign.
“The DeSantis campaign was too much of a DeSantis fan club,” said one disillusioned consultant who worked to elect DeSantis.
Said another: “Ron is the smartest guy in the room. Everyone else is an idiot. No one tells him he’s wrong. So it didn’t happen that often.”
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DeSantis was told by advisers that interactions with voters were crucial, that he needed to seem more relatable to voters. The advice was dismissed.
“People don’t care about that stuff,” he told one Republican.
Story after story then rolled in about how awkward DeSantis is. How he once ate pudding with his fingers for utensils. How his laugh is strange. How security with “menacing glares” kept him bubble-wrapped. How he snapped at a reporter asking him why he doesn’t talk to voters more. How his staff kicked a 15-year-old out of a New Hampshire town hall because he didn’t like his line of questioning. How he talks about Florida too much. How he should take more questions from voters.
“He should talk less on the stage and interact more with the voters,” New Hampshire House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, a top DeSantis backer in the state, told The Messenger in July.
DeSantis privately fumed about the petty negative coverage of the “corporate media” and “phony narratives.”
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themessenger.com
Some quotes:
At 45 years old, DeSantis had no close senior advisers older than he, and he had a reputation for disregarding advice and data that conflicted with his opinions (on abortion, for instance). Known for demanding loyalty he doesn’t frequently reciprocate, DeSantis established a top-down campaign structure designed to give him information he wanted to hear.
Critical voices didn’t last in the campaign.
“The DeSantis campaign was too much of a DeSantis fan club,” said one disillusioned consultant who worked to elect DeSantis.
Said another: “Ron is the smartest guy in the room. Everyone else is an idiot. No one tells him he’s wrong. So it didn’t happen that often.”
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DeSantis was told by advisers that interactions with voters were crucial, that he needed to seem more relatable to voters. The advice was dismissed.
“People don’t care about that stuff,” he told one Republican.
Story after story then rolled in about how awkward DeSantis is. How he once ate pudding with his fingers for utensils. How his laugh is strange. How security with “menacing glares” kept him bubble-wrapped. How he snapped at a reporter asking him why he doesn’t talk to voters more. How his staff kicked a 15-year-old out of a New Hampshire town hall because he didn’t like his line of questioning. How he talks about Florida too much. How he should take more questions from voters.
“He should talk less on the stage and interact more with the voters,” New Hampshire House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, a top DeSantis backer in the state, told The Messenger in July.
DeSantis privately fumed about the petty negative coverage of the “corporate media” and “phony narratives.”
After the STOP button was pushed you know he was punching pudding. 
