I'm not going to pretend I know all about campaign finance.
As far as all that money bouncing around between various repub orgs, that's part of our broken political system imho. I'm sure it's standard practice that they all do. There's so much political money flying around it makes one's head spin.
desantis ran for reelection for florida governor last year (2022)...
his opponent was charlie crist...
desantis needed big donor money to combat and win against big money backed charlie crist...