desantis raised the money from campaign donations, under the rules that govern state level offices.
Under FEC regulations and mccain-feingold, this money can not be used in a federal election, because the restrictions on campaign fund raising are much stricter than for state level offices.
The transfer of funds is illegal by mccain-feingold, because it involves what is called soft money, and can not legally be used in a federal level campaign, also because of the FEC regulations fund raising regulations,
And I discussed this in the thread here
The reason desantis thinks he can get away with it, is that he hopes the current FEC commission, which is 3 republican and 3 democrats, won't see the case until after the election, and have deadlocked on decisions along party lines in the past.
Also, if da santis gets away with it, expect soros and zuckerberg money to start doing the same thing....
Imagine 100’s of millions of dollars from them, going into the campaigns for leftist congressmen and senators, vs the few 100’s of thousands to maybe million raised by republicans for offices.
the guy just oozes slimy yuck in all directions.
I feel bad for kids of people who sell their soul for a step up, it usually ends poorly for them in some way.