With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign continuing to hemorrhage support and staffers, not to mention struggling in all the state and federal public opinion polls, The Floridian has learned that the secretive pro-DeSantis blog, The Florida Standard, has fired all of its employees and will shutter its doors just in time for Christmas, and before Florida’s presidential primary election.
Bah Humbug!
According to sources with ties to Gov. DeSantis’s Executive Office and with knowledge about the workings of the media outlet—which in the past has been spoon-fed exclusives for publication and was granted two rare interviews with Gov. DeSantis—The Standard will be closing down operations on or around December 13.
We expected this was going to happen, just not before Floridians were given a chance to vote, let alone Iowans.
The sources, who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity, said that the Governor’s office propped up the website and was giving it direction through several members of DeSantis’s presidential campaign and official office.
Contrary to what DeSantis’s political world spins, there are leaks within the official office and the campaign.
DeSantis’s controversial Rapid Response staffer Christina Pushaw, who recently pokedfun at former President Donald Trump at the expense of a Holocaust survivor, is alleged to have confirmed her involvement with the outlet to one of her close friends.
The friend also confirmed that Pushaw had been reprimanded by DeSantis himself over some ill-advised tweets she had posted.
According to a POLITICO profile story on the outlet’s CEO Will Witt, Witt said that “a dream” of his was to see his Florida-centric website be “emulated” around the country and “build this media empire.”
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