DeSantis Fires A Dozen Staffers As Campaign Payroll Burn Rate Nears 30%, Meanwhile Two-Thirds Of All Campaign Funds Come From Big Donors, 15% From Small Donors

 Only 15% of DeSantis campaign fundraising came from small donors.

As NBC notes, "The numbers suggest, for the first time, that solvency could be a threat to DeSantis' campaign, which has touted its fundraising ability as a key measure of viability." The big problem for Ron DeSantis is his reliance on big donors.

DeSantis just doesn't have that with only 15% of his total raised coming from small donors.

Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign has fired roughly a dozen staffers - and more are expected in the coming weeks as he shakes up his big-money political operations after less than two months on the campaign trail.

Sources involved with the DeSantis campaign say there is an internal assessment among some that they hired too many staffers too early, and despite bringing in $20 million during its first six weeks, it was becoming clear their costs needed to be brought down.

DeSantis' campaign had 92 people listed as being on the payroll for at least some period of time during its first fundraising period, according to campaign finance reports filed Saturday with the Federal Election Commission.

The issues for the DeSantis campaign are structural and embedded in the DNA of the campaign participants.

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