In his first public look since officers in California accused him of orchestrating latest constitution flights that carried teams of migrants from Texas to Sacramento, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida didn’t handle whether or not his state was liable for the transports.

Instead, at what his workplace had billed as a news convention in Wildwood, Fla., Mr. DeSantis signed a invoice on Tuesday morning that he mentioned would give customers extra management over their on-line presence after which walked off the stage with out taking questions from reporters.

“All right, guys, we’ll be back soon,” Mr. DeSantis mentioned as he waved to the viewers. “Thank you so much. Take care. Bye bye.”

The silence from Mr. DeSantis, a Republican working for president, on a high-profile incident drawing nationwide curiosity is uncommon, particularly given pointed assaults on him in latest days from Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat. Mr. DeSantis often solutions questions from the news media after occasions just like the one on Tuesday. His workplace has not answered repeated inquiries about whether or not Florida is behind the flights.

Roughly three dozen migrants have arrived in Sacramento on two constitution flights, one which touched down on Friday and one other on Monday. The migrants, most of whom are from Venezuela, mentioned they have been recruited for the flights exterior a shelter in El Paso. Several mentioned they have been promised assist discovering work.

Officials in California have blamed Mr. DeSantis for the flights, saying the migrants carried papers indicating that their journey had been organized by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and a personal contractor, Vertol Systems Company, that additionally organized sending two planeloads of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard final yr in an operation funded by Florida taxpayers.

For years, Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Newsom have used one another as foils to criticize what they describe because the extremes of their respective political events. In April, Mr. Newsom visited New College of Florida, a public liberal arts establishment that Mr. DeSantis is making an attempt to reshape right into a bastion of right-wing thought. He additionally aired a television advertisement in Florida attacking Mr. DeSantis.

For his half, Mr. DeSantis has typically pointed to the variety of Californians transferring to Florida, spurred partly, he has prompt, by the state’s looser restrictions in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

On Monday, within the newest volley, Mr. Newsom on Twitter threatened kidnapping prices towards those that organized the Sacramento flights and referred to as Mr. DeSantis “pathetic.” Rob Bonta, California’s Democratic legal professional normal, has mentioned investigators are inspecting whether any laws were broken. Officials from the California Department of Justice have been seen interviewing the migrants who landed at Sacramento Executive Airport on Monday.

Also on Monday, a county sheriff in Texas introduced that he was recommending that prosecutors file legal prices pertaining to the Martha’s Vineyard flights final September, although he mentioned nothing about who must be charged.

Neil Vigdor contributed reporting from Old Greenwich, Conn.