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Trump won't be at the GOP's first presidential debate. But his presence will be felt

He’ll be missing from the stage, but former president and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump will nonetheless loom large at the first Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday night as the candidates hoping to take on Democrat Joe Biden in November face off for the first time

The Independent UK

Could Ron DeSantis win the Republican nomination?

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has replaced his campaign manager as he aims to reset his faltering bid for the Republican Party’s 2024 nomination.

The Week

DeSantis is resetting his campaign again. Some Republicans worry his message is getting in the way

Ron DeSantis is dismissing concerns about his latest staffing shakeup as he returns to Iowa in the midst of a weekslong campaign reset

The Independent UK

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DeSantis replaces campaign manager as he continues reset of presidential bid

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is replacing his campaign manager as the Florida governor continues to reset his stagnant presidential campaign

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis replaces campaign manager as 2024 bid falters

James Uthmeier, chief of staff in governor’s office, set to take on top role at presidential campaign

The Independent UK

Why presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is under fire for an expensive golf simulator

The cost of the AboutGolf simulator starts at $27,500, while curved screen simulators cost at least $69,500.

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Florida’s century-old Sunshine Laws under duress as DeSantis tries to redefine them

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two years ago, Orlando television reporter Mike DeForest requested some routine travel and budget expenses from a state agency that had given him contractor license records within days, but this request took more than three months. He decided to ask why, so he asked for more records.

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Records show more Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights. Where did $3.4 million go?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The price tag is rising for Florida’s opaque program to relocate migrants from Texas to Democrat-leaning states.

Miami Herald

Records show more Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The price tag is rising for Florida’s opaque program to relocate migrants from Texas to Democrat-leaning states.

Miami Herald

Migrants flown from Texas to Massachusetts sue “Perla,” who recruited them for flights

The flights, financed by Florida at the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, were filled by Perla Huerta of San Antonio, who was added to a lawsuit against DeSantis and others on Tuesday.

The Texas Tribune

Watchdog wants Gov. DeSantis’ office held in contempt over unreleased migrant flight records

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A public records watchdog on Wednesday asked a Tallahassee judge to charge the DeSantis administration with contempt of court for continuing to withhold public records about its handling of the relocation of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in September.

Miami Herald

‘You’ve been suspended’: Ousted Tampa prosecutor testifies in DeSantis trial

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ousted Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren told a judge Tuesday that he learned he was suspended through an email — and minutes later, from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “public safety czar,” Larry Keefe.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis’ chief of staff, public safety czar now named in lawsuit over migrant flights

MIAMI — Two members of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration are among new defendants named in a class-action lawsuit filed against the governor over the plan to fly 49 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard earlier this year.

Miami Herald

Perla was his boss. He was her ace. Inside the covert op behind DeSantis’ migrant flights

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The final of three cash payments — $700 total — was left under a chunk of broken concrete behind the East Terrell Hills location of a San Antonio barbecue chain.

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Orlando Sentinel

Top DeSantis advisers played hands-on role in migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s public safety czar Larry Keefe was in San Antonio nearly two weeks before Gov. Ron DeSantis transported 48 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, and he may have traveled back to Florida with the migrants, records released late Friday suggest.

Orlando Sentinel

Watchdog group sues Gov. DeSantis, claims public records law was violated over migrant flights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A nonprofit government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis and his staff violated the state public records law for failing to produce documents and other material it requested related to two flights relocating migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.

Tribune News Service

Trump administration memo shows citizenship question connected with census

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration tried to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census that would benefit Republicans, despite initial concerns within the administration that it wasn’t legal, according to a new trove of documents released by Congress on Wednesday.

The Guardian - US

Trump aimed to erode immigrant representation with census citizenship question, documents show

Documents reveal officials worked to keep secret their intention to use the data to exclude non-citizens from apportionment

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The Independent UK

Secret memo links citizenship question to apportionment

Some Trump administration officials had initial doubts that it was legal to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census but pressed forward and attempted to add it anyways

WEKU

Documents detail the secret strategy behind Trump's census citizenship question push

Newly released documents confirm the Trump administration's push for a citizenship question was part of a bid to alter the census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress and the Electoral College.

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