Air DeSantis: The Private Jets and Secret Donors Flying Him Around

Mr. DeSantis has aggressively navigated his state’s ethics and campaign finance laws to avoid flying commercial. (Mr. DeSantis says he is trying to address a security concern.) The nonprofit formed in late January as Mr. DeSantis was beginning to test the national waters and quickly became a critical part of his warm-up campaign. And To The Republic has hosted Mr. DeSantis at events in South Carolina, Nevada and Iowa, all key early primary states. Still, Mr. Trump — who owns his own plane — has repeatedly sought to draw attention to Mr. DeSantis’s travel, claiming the private planes were effectively campaign contributions and “Ron DeSantis is a full-time candidate for president.”The post Air DeSantis: The Private Jets and Secret Donors Flying Him Around appeared first on New York Times.