DeSantis cuts 38 staffers from flailing campaign

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has slashed more than a third of his campaign staff as his bid for the Republican presidential nomination struggles to gain traction with voters.

The layoffs amounted to 38 jobs cut across multiple departments and came under two weeks after the 44-year-old reportedly axed about a dozen other workers.

The campaign confirmed the shakeup, which was first reported by Politico Tuesday.

“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,” DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck said in a statement.

“Governor 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.”

DeSantis now trails former President Donald Trump by more than 30 percentage points among Republicans nationwide, even though the 77-year-old is facing dozens of federal and state criminal charges and is expected to soon be indicted on additional counts.

The massive gap is a sharp departure from early this year, when the RealClearPolitics polling average showed DeSantis just 13 percentage points behind Trump in late January, months before the Florida governor declared his candidacy.

DeSantis had raised $20 million in the first six weeks after jumping into the race May 24, financial filings show, but sources said the campaign erred by bringing on too many staffers too quickly.

“They never should have brought so many people on, the burn rate was way too high,” one Republican familiar with the campaign’s thought process told The Post earlier this month.

“People warned the campaign manager [Peck] but she wanted to hear none of it.”

The departures include senior advisors Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain, who left to boost an outside pro-DeSantis group, the campaign said.

Amid the departures, Carl Sceusa was named chief financial officer to go with his current role as chief technology officer, digital director Ethan Eilon was elevated to deputy campaign manager, Cody Hall was added as senior communications adviser and Andrew Romeo was promoted to communications director.