Ron DeSantis - latest: Campaign fires staffer over Nazi meme as animal blamed for motorcade crash
Ron DeSantis was in a car crash while on his way to a fundraiser in Tennessee.
The Florida governor and 2024 presidential candidate was uninjured in the Tuesday morning incident.
“We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail,” spokesperson Bryan Griffin said in a statement.
Mr DeSantis was set to attend fundraisers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville on Tuesday as his campaign is reported to be floundering both in terms of funding and poll numbers.
Meanwhile, the governor’s presidential campaign continues to suffer internal turmoil.
A staffer was recently fired for posting a video using Nazi imagery superimposed on Mr DeSantis’s face.
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Tuesday 25 July 2023 14:34 , Gustaf Kilander
Ron DeSantis was in a car crash while on his way to a campaign event in Tennessee.
The Florida governor and 2024 presidential candidate was uninjured in the Tuesday morning incident.
“This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He and his team are uninjured. We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail,” spokesperson Bryan Griffin said in a statement, according to CNN.
Mr DeSantis was set to attend fundraisers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville on Tuesday as his campaign is reported to be floundering both in terms of funding and poll numbers.
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Tuesday 25 July 2023 14:57 , Gustaf Kilander
Ron DeSantis: CCTV shows emergency services attending scene of presidential hopeful’s car crash
Tuesday 25 July 2023 15:09 , Holly Patrick
CCTV footage shows emergency services attending the scene of a car crash involving Ron DeSantis in Tennessee on Tuesday, 25 July.
The Republican presidential nominee was involved in a collision while travelling to an event in Chattanooga but was uninjured, his spokesperson Bryan Griffin said.
“We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail,” Mr Griffin added.
Mr DeSantis, 44, had been scheduled to hold events in the state on Tuesday.
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Ron DeSantis’s campaign advisers took the rare (and sometimes fatal) step of acknowledging mismanagement of the Florida governor’s presidential bid this weekend, as reports revealed that he is burning through cash with little to show for it.
The Florida governor’s top staff and advisers were in Utah on Sunday where, according to Politico, they appeared in front of dozens of restless campaign donors who have expressed concern about a return on their investments and the overall trajectory of Mr DeSantis’s bid for the White House.
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Tuesday 25 July 2023 15:30 , Eric Garcia
Two new polls from Fox Business show that Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s numbers in the Republican presidential primary continue to tumble in Iow in South Carolina, where the state’s former governor Nikki Haley has eclipsed him.
Fox Business surveyed 806 Iowa Caucus goers between 15 July and 19 July with a margin of error of 3.5 per centage points. It also surveyed 808 South Carolina Republican primary voters within the same time frame with the same margin of error as the Iowa survey.
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Four cars in DeSantis motorcade collided with each other as traffic slowed, police say
Tuesday 25 July 2023 15:45 , Gustaf Kilander
Mr DeSantis was set to attend fundraisers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville on Tuesday as his campaign is reported to be floundering both in terms of funding and poll numbers.
The crash took place on I-75 South close to the 2.8-mile marker, south of the 153 exit, according to News Channel 9.
Chattanooga Police told News Channel 9 that it was a minor crash and as traffic slowed down, four cars in the motorcade transporting Mr DeSantis collided with each other. Law enforcement said one of the staffers suffered a minor injury. Mr DeSantis and his staff continued their journey to the fundraisers.
The presidential candidates who have so far met criteria to join first RNC debate
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Six Republican presidential candidates have met the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) new criteria to participate in the first GOP debate on 23 August.
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DeSantis defends Florida curriculum that suggests slaves benefited from forced labour
Tuesday 25 July 2023 16:30 , John Bowden
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defended a hard-right school curriculum that went into effect in his state this week while on the campaign trail for the Republican presidential nomination.
At an event in Utah, Governor DeSantis defended how slavery will now be taught in Florida middle schools. Children will now be taught that enslaved persons picked up skills that they later “parlayed” into profitable crafts after slavery was abolished.
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Challenge to Florida drag shows law won't go to trial until next spring
Tuesday 25 July 2023 17:00 , AP
A trial to determine if a new Florida law targeting drag shows is constitutional won’t start until next spring.
A filing posted in federal court in Tallahassee late last week shows that the trial won’t start until the beginning of June 2024. It is scheduled to last two days and will be decided by a judge instead of a jury.
The law, championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is on hold for now. A federal judge last month issued a temporary injunction preventing it from being enforced until the trial is held. The state of Florida has appealed that decision.
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Tuesday 25 July 2023 17:30 , Michelle L. Price, AP
Set aside the polls, the fundraising numbers or Donald Trump’s name recognition as metrics of his early dominance of the Republican presidential contest. He has what could prove to be the most important advantage in the race: a leg up in winning the delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
While the delegate count won’t begin taking shape until voting begins next January, Trump’s edge in the race to win their votes is years in the making. Many state Republican parties made changes to their rules ahead of the 2020 election by adding more winner-take-all contests and requiring candidates to earn higher percentages of the vote to claim any delegates. Those changes all benefit a frontrunner, a position Trump has held despite his mounting legal peril, blame for his party’s lackluster performance in the 2022 elections and the turbulent years of his presidency.
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Florida man pleads guilty over Jan 6 riot as state’s governor Ron DeSantis insists there was no insurrection
Tuesday 25 July 2023 18:00 , Sheila Flynn, Michelle L Price, AP
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to participating in the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol – on the same day the state’s governor called the insurrection simply a “protest” that “ended up devolving.”
Anthony Sargent, 47, pleaded guilty on Friday in District of Columbia federal court to a felony count of civil disorder along with six misdemeanor charges, according to court records. He faces up to five years in prison at a Sept. 28 sentencing hearing, AP reported.
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Four cars in Ron DeSantis motorcade crash into each other on way to Tennessee fundraisers
Tuesday 25 July 2023 18:30 , Gustaf Kilander
Ron DeSantis was in a car crash while on his way to a fundraiser in Tennessee.
The Florida governor and 2024 presidential candidate was uninjured in the Tuesday morning incident.
“This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He and his team are uninjured. We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail,” spokesperson Bryan Griffin said in a statement.
Mr DeSantis was set to attend fundraisers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville on Tuesday as his campaign is reported to be floundering both in terms of funding and poll numbers.
The crash took place on I-75 South close to the 2.8-mile marker, south of the 153 exit, according to News Channel 9.
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Four cars in Ron DeSantis motorcade crash into each other on way to fundraisers
VOICES: Ron DeSantis is caught in a negative spiral of his own making
Tuesday 25 July 2023 19:00 , Eric Garcia
At this point, almost everyone, including his fans, acknowledge Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign has severely underperformed its expectations. He failed to raise more money than former president Donald Trump and his campaign has burned through cash, which has led to him shedding staff.
This weekend, two polls from Fox Business offered a double body blow to Mr DeSantis, with one showing that Mr Trump leads the governor by 30 points while Sen Tim Scott (R-SC) is biting at his heels. Even more brutally, a poll in South Carolina shows he now trails the state’s former Gov Nikki Haley by one point.
Longtime readers may remember back in February, I wrote that Ms Haley’s candidacy would not hurt Mr Trump but could be fatal to Mr DeSantis. The reasoning was simple: many of Mr Trump’s devotees will not consider anyone else for the GOP nomination, let alone someone on record badmouthing the former president.
That means that he and Ms Haley would have to compete for a smaller slice of non-Trump voters, which could in turn hurt Mr DeSantis as he is the leading non-Trump candidate. This very thing has taken place and on top of that, Mr Scott’s rise (particularly with Republican donors who now have buyer’s remorse with Mr DeSantis) has meant his slice of the electorate has dwindled.
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Tuesday 25 July 2023 19:25 , Eric Garcia
Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign laid off a third of its campaign staff as it continues to tighten its belt amid numerous negative news stories and lacklustre fundraising numbers, Politico reported.
The campaign will cut a total of 38 jobs, advisers told Politico, including ten event planning positions the campaign announced weeks ago as well as that of top DeSantis advisers Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain.
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Ron DeSantis: CCTV shows emergency services attending scene of presidential hopeful’s car crash
Tuesday 25 July 2023 19:30 , Holly Patrick
CCTV footage shows emergency services attending the scene of a car crash involving Ron DeSantis in Tennessee on Tuesday, 25 July.
The Republican presidential nominee was involved in a collision while travelling to an event in Chattanooga but was uninjured, his spokesperson Bryan Griffin said.
“We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail,” Mr Griffin added.
Mr DeSantis, 44, had been scheduled to hold events in the state on Tuesday.
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The Florida governor’s top staff and advisers were in Utah on Sunday where, according to Politico, they appeared in front of dozens of restless campaign donors who have expressed concern about a return on their investments and the overall trajectory of Mr DeSantis’s bid for the White House.
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Tuesday 25 July 2023 20:30 , Eric Garcia
Two new polls from Fox Business show that Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s numbers in the Republican presidential primary continue to tumble in Iow in South Carolina, where the state’s former governor Nikki Haley has eclipsed him.
Fox Business surveyed 806 Iowa Caucus goers between 15 July and 19 July with a margin of error of 3.5 per centage points. It also surveyed 808 South Carolina Republican primary voters within the same time frame with the same margin of error as the Iowa survey.
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Four cars in DeSantis motorcade collided with each other as traffic slowed, police say
Tuesday 25 July 2023 21:00 , Gustaf Kilander
Mr DeSantis was set to attend fundraisers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville on Tuesday as his campaign is reported to be floundering both in terms of funding and poll numbers.
The crash took place on I-75 South close to the 2.8-mile marker, south of the 153 exit, according to News Channel 9.
Chattanooga Police told News Channel 9 that it was a minor crash and as traffic slowed down, four cars in the motorcade transporting Mr DeSantis collided with each other. Law enforcement said one of the staffers suffered a minor injury. Mr DeSantis and his staff continued their journey to the fundraisers.
VIDEO: CCTV shows emergency services attending car crash scene
Tuesday 25 July 2023 21:30 , Holly Patrick
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Tuesday 25 July 2023 22:00 , Ariana Baio
Six Republican presidential candidates have met the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) new criteria to participate in the first GOP debate on 23 August.
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The DeSantis campaign was en route to fundraisers amid a campaign slump – when four vehicles in the motorcade crashed
Tuesday 25 July 2023 22:45 , Gustaf Kilander
The floundering campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was on its way to scramble for more cash all over Tennessee when the journey came to an abrupt stop.
The motorcade transporting the governor and presidential candidate was involved in a crash on Tuesday morning, leaving one staffer with a minor injury. The governor was uninjured.
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DeSantis lays off a third of his campaign staff as presidential bid sputters
Tuesday 25 July 2023 23:30 , Eric Garcia
lorida Gov Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign laid off a third of its campaign staff as it continues to tighten its belt amid numerous negative news stories and lacklustre fundraising numbers, Politico reported.
The campaign will cut a total of 38 jobs, advisers told Politico, including ten event planning positions the campaign announced weeks ago as well as that of top DeSantis advisers Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain.
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DeSantis campaign says it has taken ‘aggressive steps to streamline operations’
Wednesday 26 July 2023 00:15 , Eric Garcia
“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,” campaign manager Generra Peck said in a statement. “Gov DeSantis is going to lead the Great American Comeback and we’re ready to hit the ground running as we head into an important month of the campaign.”
The slim-down comes after the DeSantis campaign announced it had raised $20m in the governor’s first quarter as a candidate. But the campaign had also spent $7.8m in its first quarter, an incredibly high burn rate and many of the donors who had contributed had given the maximum legal limit, meaning they cannot donate again.
Vast majority of DeSantis cash going to super PAC
01:00 , AP
The dramatic staffing cuts include the “less than 10” employees that the DeSantis team revealed letting go earlier in the month just as federal filings showed that his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate, even before launching a substantial paid advertising campaign.
DeSantis’ team has quietly expressed confidence for months that voters would eventually tire of Trump’s escalating legal troubles and personal baggage. But that same baggage, playing out in the U.S. legal system just as the GOP primary intensifies, is leaving precious little oxygen for him and his rivals to break through. And Trump’s standing with Republican primary voters seems to be growing stronger with every new legal challenge.
Still, DeSantis’ team has raised a stunning $150 million for his presidential ambitions so far. The vast majority, $130 million, has gone to a super PAC run by allies who cannot legally coordinate with the campaign.
The DeSantis campaign itself raised more than $20 million in the first six weeks he was in the race, though federal filings released over the weekend revealed that he and his team had burned through more than $8 million in a spending spree that included more than 100 paid staffers, a large security detail and luxury travel.
DeSantis campaign fires aide behind neo-Nazi meme video
01:29 , Josh Marcus
A campaign staffer for Ron DeSantis who shared an online video using Nazi imagery with the Florida governor’s face has been fired.
Nate Hochman, a 25-year-old campaign communications staff member who has written for The National Review and The New York Times, shared a video over the weekend to an anonymous pro-DeSantis Twitter account featuring a meme template that has been adopted by far-right and neo-fascist creators.
The video shows a “wojack” character, unhappy with news footage of Donald Trump, watching the Florida seal turn into the Nazi-appropriated Sonnenrad symbol. Mr DeSantis is then seen superimposed on the icon in front of soldiers marching in formation.
Alex Woodward reports forThe Independent.
DeSantis campaign fires aide behind neo-Nazi meme video
‘DeSantis fired 40+ people because he and the First Lady refuse to fly Delta'
01:45 , Gustaf Kilander
One GOP operative snipes to me “DeSantis fired 40+ people because he and the First Lady refuse to fly Delta or American to Des Moines and Manchester” https://t.co/4CKWEWxtqh
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 25, 2023
Biden appears to aim jab at DeSantis
02:30 , Gustaf Kilander
“At a time when there are those who seek to ban books, bury history, we’re making it clear — crystal, crystal clear.”
— President Biden appears to take a shot at Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at an event announcing a monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley pic.twitter.com/lgTbN65KC7— The Recount (@therecount) July 25, 2023
DeSantis defends Florida curriculum that suggests slaves benefited from forced labour
03:15 , John Bowden
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defended a hard-right school curriculum that went into effect in his state this week while on the campaign trail for the Republican presidential nomination.
At an event in Utah, Governor DeSantis defended how slavery will now be taught in Florida middle schools. Children will now be taught that enslaved persons picked up skills that they later “parlayed” into profitable crafts after slavery was abolished.
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DeSantis defends Florida curriculum that suggests slaves benefited from forced labour
Challenge to Florida drag shows law won't go to trial until next spring
04:00 , AP
A trial to determine if a new Florida law targeting drag shows is constitutional won’t start until next spring.
A filing posted in federal court in Tallahassee late last week shows that the trial won’t start until the beginning of June 2024. It is scheduled to last two days and will be decided by a judge instead of a jury.
The law, championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is on hold for now. A federal judge last month issued a temporary injunction preventing it from being enforced until the trial is held. The state of Florida has appealed that decision.
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How Trump is gaining an advantage in the nitty-gritty battle for delegates
05:00 , Michelle L. Price, AP
Set aside the polls, the fundraising numbers or Donald Trump’s name recognition as metrics of his early dominance of the Republican presidential contest. He has what could prove to be the most important advantage in the race: a leg up in winning the delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
While the delegate count won’t begin taking shape until voting begins next January, Trump’s edge in the race to win their votes is years in the making. Many state Republican parties made changes to their rules ahead of the 2020 election by adding more winner-take-all contests and requiring candidates to earn higher percentages of the vote to claim any delegates. Those changes all benefit a frontrunner, a position Trump has held despite his mounting legal peril, blame for his party’s lackluster performance in the 2022 elections and the turbulent years of his presidency.
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Florida man pleads guilty over Jan 6 riot as state’s governor Ron DeSantis insists there was no insurrection
06:00 , Sheila Flynn, Michelle L Price, AP
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to participating in the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol – on the same day the state’s governor called the insurrection simply a “protest” that “ended up devolving.”
Anthony Sargent, 47, pleaded guilty on Friday in District of Columbia federal court to a felony count of civil disorder along with six misdemeanor charges, according to court records. He faces up to five years in prison at a Sept. 28 sentencing hearing, AP reported.
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Four cars in Ron DeSantis motorcade crash into each other on way to Tennessee fundraisers
07:00 , Gustaf Kilander
Ron DeSantis was in a car crash while on his way to a fundraiser in Tennessee.
The Florida governor and 2024 presidential candidate was uninjured in the Tuesday morning incident.
“This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He and his team are uninjured. We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail,” spokesperson Bryan Griffin said in a statement.
Mr DeSantis was set to attend fundraisers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville on Tuesday as his campaign is reported to be floundering both in terms of funding and poll numbers.
The crash took place on I-75 South close to the 2.8-mile marker, south of the 153 exit, according to News Channel 9.
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Four cars in Ron DeSantis motorcade crash into each other on way to fundraisers
VOICES: Ron DeSantis is caught in a negative spiral of his own making
08:00 , Eric Garcia
At this point, almost everyone, including his fans, acknowledge Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign has severely underperformed its expectations. He failed to raise more money than former president Donald Trump and his campaign has burned through cash, which has led to him shedding staff.
This weekend, two polls from Fox Business offered a double body blow to Mr DeSantis, with one showing that Mr Trump leads the governor by 30 points while Sen Tim Scott (R-SC) is biting at his heels. Even more brutally, a poll in South Carolina shows he now trails the state’s former Gov Nikki Haley by one point.
Longtime readers may remember back in February, I wrote that Ms Haley’s candidacy would not hurt Mr Trump but could be fatal to Mr DeSantis. The reasoning was simple: many of Mr Trump’s devotees will not consider anyone else for the GOP nomination, let alone someone on record badmouthing the former president.
That means that he and Ms Haley would have to compete for a smaller slice of non-Trump voters, which could in turn hurt Mr DeSantis as he is the leading non-Trump candidate. This very thing has taken place and on top of that, Mr Scott’s rise (particularly with Republican donors who now have buyer’s remorse with Mr DeSantis) has meant his slice of the electorate has dwindled.
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Ron DeSantis is caught in a death spiral of his own making
Ron DeSantis: CCTV shows emergency services attending scene of presidential hopeful’s car crash
09:00 , Holly Patrick
CCTV footage shows emergency services attending the scene of a car crash involving Ron DeSantis in Tennessee on Tuesday, 25 July.
The Republican presidential nominee was involved in a collision while travelling to an event in Chattanooga but was uninjured, his spokesperson Bryan Griffin said.
“We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail,” Mr Griffin added.
Mr DeSantis, 44, had been scheduled to hold events in the state on Tuesday.
Ron DeSantis: CCTV shows emergency services attending car crash scene
Ron DeSantis has already blown 40 per cent of his campaign donations – on private jets and fancy campaign dinners
10:00 , John Bowden
Ron DeSantis’s campaign advisers took the rare (and sometimes fatal) step of acknowledging mismanagement of the Florida governor’s presidential bid this weekend, as reports revealed that he is burning through cash with little to show for it.
The Florida governor’s top staff and advisers were in Utah on Sunday where, according to Politico, they appeared in front of dozens of restless campaign donors who have expressed concern about a return on their investments and the overall trajectory of Mr DeSantis’s bid for the White House.
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Ron DeSantis has already blown 40 per cent of his campaign donations
Nikki Haley leads Ron DeSantis in South Carolina, Fox poll shows
11:00 , Eric Garcia
Two new polls from Fox Business show that Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s numbers in the Republican presidential primary continue to tumble in Iow in South Carolina, where the state’s former governor Nikki Haley has eclipsed him.
Fox Business surveyed 806 Iowa Caucus goers between 15 July and 19 July with a margin of error of 3.5 per centage points. It also surveyed 808 South Carolina Republican primary voters within the same time frame with the same margin of error as the Iowa survey.
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Nikki Haley leads Ron DeSantis in South Carolina: Fox poll
Four cars in DeSantis motorcade collided with each other as traffic slowed, police say
12:00 , Gustaf Kilander
Mr DeSantis was set to attend fundraisers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville on Tuesday as his campaign is reported to be floundering both in terms of funding and poll numbers.
The crash took place on I-75 South close to the 2.8-mile marker, south of the 153 exit, according to News Channel 9.
Chattanooga Police told News Channel 9 that it was a minor crash and as traffic slowed down, four cars in the motorcade transporting Mr DeSantis collided with each other. Law enforcement said one of the staffers suffered a minor injury. Mr DeSantis and his staff continued their journey to the fundraisers.
VIDEO: CCTV shows emergency services attending car crash scene
13:00 , The Independent
The DeSantis campaign was en route to fundraisers amid a campaign slump – when four vehicles in the motorcade crashed
14:00 , Gustaf Kilander
The floundering campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was on its way to scramble for more cash all over Tennessee when the journey came to an abrupt stop.
The motorcade transporting the governor and presidential candidate was involved in a crash on Tuesday morning, leaving one staffer with a minor injury. The governor was uninjured.
Here’s everything we know so far:
