Ron DeSantis

Former President Donald Trump's strategists have pushed a series of rules in the Republican primary process that makes it disproportionately easy for him to win delegates in the primary contest, reported POLITICO on Friday.

According to Rachel Bade, loyalists to Trump have "worked behind the scenes" and have been "quietly reaching out to allies" in states to both alter rules in ways that make it easier for Trump, or stop rule changes that would hurt him.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis—also running for the Republican presidential nomination—slammed the National Basketball Association after the players' union, the National Basketball Players Association, condemned the Orlando Magic for making a donation to his super PAC.

Thursday morning, the NBPA released a statement following a New York Times report that the team made a $50,000 donation to Never Back Down, a pro-DeSantis super PAC. The statement avoided mentioning DeSantis by name.

As Hurricane Ian devastated parts of Florida, millions of dollars rolled into Casey DeSantis’ relief campaign. Nearly a year later, much of it is sitting unused in a bank account, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel revealed.

The wife of governor and GOP presidential nominee hopeful Ron DeSantis campaigned to raise $63 million in donations for the Florida Disaster Fund as the hurricane destroyed swathes of the state in late September 2022.

As part of his escalating fight with Disney after they criticized his anti-LGBTQ school legislation, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies in the state legislature passed a law that let him step in and take over the special taxing district that provides public services to the Walt Disney World resort complex, a move designed to limit the powers of the company as retaliation for criticizing him. One of the steps of that involved hand-picking a new oversight board to manage the district.

According to CNN's KFILE investigative feature, one of the members DeSantis appointed to that board has promoted racist historical myths about slavery.

A self-confessed serial killer convicted of murdering his wife and another woman was executed by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida on Thursday, local media reported.

James Barnes, 61, who did not seek to halt his execution, was put to death at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) at Florida State Prison, local television stations said.

“This governor has proven, without fail, that he has no interest in protecting Black history, no interest in helping Floridians, and absolutely no interest in anything beyond his ridiculous presidential ambitions,” Jacksonville Sen. Tracie Davis wrote in a statement from the caucus on Thursday.

As he faces national backlash from both Democrats and Republicans, DeSantis continues to defend the standards approved last month by the State Board of Education. Earlier this week, the governor went as far as challenging Vice President Kamala Harris to visit him in Tallahassee to debate those standards, which included the assertion that enslaved people learned valuable skills.

Former President Donald Trump released an ad attacking Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis as he was en route to being arrested on charges that he attempted to overturn the 2020 election for president.

The video released by Trump features old clips of DeSantis praising the former president. As the ad was shared on Trump's Truth Social account, his plane was landing in Washington, D.C. where he was set to be arraigned.

Republicans who oppose Donald Trump could be helping him win the party's presidential nomination by spreading their donations to his various rivals instead of coalescing around a single challenger, according to a report.

Billionaire donors like Charles Koch and Jeffrey Yass have contributed to anti-Trump super PACs, while other major donors like Joe Craft and Stan Druckenmiller are backing candidates still polling in single digits, but no rival has emerged from the GOP pack to give the former president a challenge, reported Bloomberg.

After a massive downsizing of Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Republican presidential campaign, three of the operation’s now-former aides have been hired by his taxpayer-funded governor’s office.

“The Florida governor is leaning on his taxpayer-funded office to keep select aides in his orbit as the campaign goes through a cash shortfall that led it to dump one-third of its staff in July,” Axios reports.