The once-favoured Republican candidate has fallen off the pace despite mounting legal woes in the Trump Camp

 
Between staff layoffs and depleting funds, Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is slowing down before it even really started.

The Florida governor fired roughly a dozen staffers over the weekend — after just six weeks on the campaign trail. More layoffs are expected in the coming weeks as part of cost-cutting measures.

Sources close to the DeSantis campaign said that the firings are related to its unsustainable spending habits, which were also revealed this weekend when DeSantis filed his campaign fundraising and spending details from April 1 to June 30.