Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee for Florida governor, has some serious question marks in his own record as he tries to make hay of his Democratic opponent’s Hamilton tickets. During his five-and-a-half years in the House, DeSantis spent $145,000 in congressional money on travel, and he’s not too eager to share the details.
Though DeSantis is refusing to show where and how he spent that travel money, USA Today linked some of the expenses to trips to New York to appear on Fox News. This is, to be clear, within the rules, but he doesn’t seem to want people paying attention to it as he slams Andrew Gillum for having attended Hamilton with his brother (who Gillum says he believed to be giving him the ticket as a birthday gift), a college friend who’s now a lobbyist, and someone he thought was a developer who turns out to have been an undercover FBI agent. Gillum hasn’t been connected with any wrongdoing in that investigation into Tallahassee politics, and has shared his own travel receipts.
DeSantis is also facing questions over his Miami-Dade Jewish outreach chair, who attended a Proud Boys protest of a Nancy Pelosi fundraiser. (Nothing says Jewish outreach like attending white supremacist events.)
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