Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.
Ron DeSantis has less money and more problems. The Florida governor's presidential campaign entered this month with just $5 million in cash available for the primary, a sum that reignites doubts about his solvency, budgeting and ability to gain ground on front-running former President Donald Trump. The pain is so acute that DeSantis is redeploying aides from his Tallahassee headquarters to Des Moines for the stretch run of a do-or-die Jan. 15 Iowa caucus.
Stephanie Kopelousos, a campaign aide who was previously DeSantis’ legislative affairs director, sent an email to state-level lobbyists asking them to attend a late September fundraiser for the campaign. “You have seen first-hand how hard the Governor works to deliver for Floridians…our country needs his strong leadership to turn things around,” she wrote in the late September email, which was obtained by NBC News.
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