Ron DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is running for reelection in Florida, but he's been spending a lot of time at national GOP events around the country instead of campaigning in his home state.

Over the weekend, DeSantis was supposed to be one of the speakers at a Family Research Council conference called "Prayer Vote Stand" in Atlanta. But according to Religion Dispatches, he was a "no-show."

Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea said Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was “right” to transport about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to the island of Martha’s Vineyard this week.

O’Dea, a first-time candidate and CEO of a Denver construction company, faces an uphill battle to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in November. He made the comments defending DeSantis’ actions on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Monday defended sending roughly 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard. The governor said the stunt was not inhumane because the migrants were given maps of their destination.

During an interview, conservative radio host Erick Erickson asked DeSantis to respond to allegations that the migrants were mistreated.

On Saturday fifty more migrants from Texas arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris's residence in Washington, D.C. The buses made the long drive from Texas carrying asylum seekers from Venezuela.

Here's a look at what Vice President Harris had to say to VICE News on Sunday regarding Governor Abbott and Desantis’ handling of the migrants:

As Republican Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas continued over the weekend to defend their plot to put refugees and migrants from Latin America on planes and buses to northern cities and communities, critics of the 'cruel' and 'immoral' actions have said the two should face investigation and ultimately criminal prosecution for misleading and mistreating the people at the center of their political gamesmanship.

Amid confirmed reports that many of the migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard last week by DeSantis had been misled by officials in Florida about the nature of their trip, immigration rights legal aides have said they intend to push for legal action to stop such abuses. As the New York Times reports:

Democratic nominee for Florida governor Charlie Crist is attacking Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for sending 50 asylum-seeking immigrants to a tiny town of 5168 people on Martha's Vineyard, saying it's a violation of the Christian faith.

Crist, who recently resigned his U.S. House seat to focus on the tight campaign full-time, in a new ad cites a Biblical verse to support his claim.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday morning posted an angry rant about the FBI searching his Mar-a-Lago resort -- and he accused FBI agents of leaving his bedroom dirty by not taking off their shoes.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, the twice-impeached former president accused the FBI of conducting a lawless, unconstitutional search of his home, despite the fact that the FBI was executing a lawful search warrant that was authorized by a judge.

Rolling Stone reported Sunday that former President Donald Trump is not happy with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who some say will use his 2022 win to propel himself to the Republican nomination for president in 2024. DeSantis tried to throw himself into the same stunt that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) was doing, shipping immigrants and refugees off to other cities around the country and politicizing it with Fox.

It put DeSantis in a difficult position, commentators said, so he went to Texas to ship their immigrants to Martha's Vinyard instead of immigrants in Florida. One of those was a one-year-old baby. It has become the major news story for the past several days, with immigrant rights groups revealing that the migrants were lied to about where they were going and what was happening. Some were told they were being taken to Boston, others had appointments to appear in immigration courts in Seattle but were shipped to the northeast instead.

In both 2018 and 2020, the Fox networks, Republicans and other conservative outlets claimed that millions of migrants were in a caravan headed to the U.S. and Mexico border to "invade" the United States. Former President Donald Trump even went so far as to send soldiers to the border, where most of them slept in their cars, and puttered around without much to do. Other states sent their state guard soldiers as well.

But after the election was over, the soldiers were called home and the "caravan" story was over. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) even admitted that the video his campaign used was a lie, but defended it anyway.

A Republican campaign advisor got it from both sides on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday morning after he attempted to defend Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) over his sending immigrants seeking asylum to Martha's Vineyard in what is universally being considered a political "stunt."

During the panel segment, Jennings said what DeSantis was doing was necessary because it helps illuminate the problems at the border, which led both a liberal and a conservative co-panelist to call him out for disregarding the human factor of shipping people around the country to make a political point.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey led six fellow Massachusetts Democrats in the House Friday in calling on the Treasury Department to investigate GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' apparent abuse of federal Covid-19 relief funds to send two flights of migrants to Martha's Vineyard this week.

Markey and Reps. Jake Auchincloss, Bill Keating, Jim McGovern, Seth Moulton, Ayanna Pressley, and Lori Trahan sent a letter to the department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) given the governor's use of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) "to cruelly relocate vulnerable immigrants from Florida to other states across the country."