“Gov. Ron DeSantis canceled campaign events this week as a major storm bears down on the state and in the aftermath of a horrific, racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville,” Politico reports.
The Messenger: “After the shooting on Saturday evening, DeSantis’s office refused to discuss his whereabouts with reporters. That prompted a CNN reporter to say on air that she asked a DeSantis spokesman ‘specifically if [DeSantis] plans to deviate away from his campaigning … he said we will let you know.’
“Spokesman Jeremy Redfern then posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, his text message exchange with the reporter to dispute her exact characterization of the conversation. What Redfern didn’t say: when he told her ‘will let you know’ about the governor’s whereabouts on Saturday, DeSantis was already en route to Tallahassee and had plans to attend Sunday’s vigil in Jacksonville.”
