For months, I warned Governor DeSantis and his team about their campaign strategy; everything from the super PAC to his message seemed wrong, and I made it known. So here’s what happened. …

I said that the advance team was an embarrassment and should be fired, the messaging was all wrong, that doubling down to try to sound like an Evangelical when he was not an Evangelical would not work and his interview on the Christian show was embarrassing.

Generra insisted that I didn’t know what I was talking about, and I replied, “This is why the super PAC has nothing to work with, and they say it, you’re not discussing the issues. This is Ted Cruz 2.0.”

[This is a lengthy rant from Girdusky, some of which feels more like griping, but this last part is *precisely* what happened in the DeSantis campaign. I began warning in August that the GOP candidates had all adopted the Cruz 2015 strategy (except Chris Christie) with the same expectation — that they could woo the MAGA crowd away from Trump as long as they didn’t criticize him. DeSantis’ Never Back Down super-PAC even issued that strategy in a debate-prep memo leaked to the press at almost the same time, and well after Girdusky claims he warned them about not going after Trump. They all kept up that same strategy of shredding each other rather than focusing on Trump through the debates, which is pretty much what happened in 2015, and produced the same results. — Ed]