DeSantis’s Risky Strategy: Trying Not to Trick Small Donors
In the months before the 2020 presidential election, Roy W. Bailey, a Dallas businessman, received a stream of text messages from Donald J. Trump’s re-election campaign, asking for money in persistent, almost desperate terms. “Have you forgotten me?” the messages read, Mr. Bailey recalled. “Have you deserted us?” Mr. Bailey was familiar with the Trump…