But Mr. DeSantis himself has but to undertake his marketing campaign’s newfound frugality. On Tuesday, he flew a number of journeys on non-public planes to fund-raisers round Tennessee. The non-public flights assist clarify a part of how the marketing campaign has burned by money in its first six weeks. His marketing campaign’s first report confirmed that he had spent $179,000 in chartered aircraft prices, in addition to $483,000 to a restricted legal responsibility firm for “travel.”

Some of Mr. DeSantis’s rivals have been desirous to level out their cost-saving measures. On Wednesday, Nikki Haley tweeted a photograph together with her flight attendant below the hashtag #WeFlyCommercial.

What’s extra, Mr. DeSantis and different components of his operation confirmed little signal of a message shift.

In an interview with the radio host Clay Travis that aired Wednesday, Mr. DeSantis stated that he would take into account choosing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine candidate working as a Democrat, to work on the F.D.A. or the C.D.C. The beautiful comment prompted criticism from some outstanding conservative writers, together with at The National Review, the place workers had as soon as sounded bullish on a DeSantis candidacy.

Later within the day, Mr. DeSantis’s marketing campaign aide Christina Pushaw, who is understood for preventing with reporters on-line, attacked the favored Republican Florida Representative Byron Donalds, who’s Black, for criticizing his state’s new required teachings on slavery. By evening’s finish, the feud over Mr. Donalds devolved to the purpose the place one other DeSantis aide, Jeremy Redfern, received right into a battle with a random Twitter consumer and posted her picture prominently in a tweet.

At a donor retreat over the weekend — at a luxurious ski resort in Park City, Utah, employed out for $87,000 — donors and allies, together with Representative Chip Roy of Texas, had robust conversations with each the governor and his wife, a close adviser, concerning the construction and administration of the marketing campaign, based on two individuals who attended the retreat.