DeSantis gains $1.5 million at three New York fundraisers

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis got more than $1.5 million at three New York fundraising events on Thursday, despite a kerfuffle over one of the gatherings being moved to a different venue at the last minute.

Politico reported that the DeSantis camp had upset Rockland County GOP Chair Lawrence Garvey by not giving him a heads-up about a $6,600-per-person donor event scheduled for the Crowne Plaza hotel in Suffern.

But according to both another New York Republican official and the DeSantis campaign, a donor was in charge of hosting and decided to move the event to a private location — not the Florida governor or his team.

“As a former candidate, I am well aware that when somebody volunteers to host an event for you, a fundraiser, you tell them, ‘Thank you, where can I show up and when?’ You can’t — and don’t — give them a list of people that they should invite,” Chele Farley, a former finance chair for New York City Republicans, told The Post. “You have zero control over the guest list as the candidate or the campaign.”