In Florida, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday lashed out at people who’ve called on him to condemn a series of Nazi demonstrations over the weekend near Orlando. DeSantis accused Democrats of trying to “smear me as if I had something to do with it.” His remarks came after his press secretary, Christina Pushaw, deleted a tweet suggesting the protesters were not real Nazis and questioning whether they were Democrats in disguise.
Meanwhile, police in Chicago have arrested a suspect in a string of apparent hate crimes targeting the Jewish community. The windows of two Jewish-owned Chicago businesses were smashed Saturday, while on Sunday a synagogue and Jewish school were vandalized with swastika images and antisemitic graffiti.