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  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY FLORIDA MAN DRAWS MASS. CONDEMNATION —  Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has  followed through on his proposal  to send undocumented immigrants from Florida to Martha’s Vineyard in a rebuke of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies that was denounced by Democrats in both states as a  political stunt . Massachusetts is the latest target of Republican governors' ongoing campaign of busing  — and now flying — migrants to cities like New York City and Washington, D.C., and Chicago. GBH’s Sarah Betancourt reports some migrants sent north by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are now  showing up at Boston-area hospitals seeking medical attention  and housing assistance. DeSantis had talked about busing migrants to Biden’s home state of Delaware,  in a more direct antagonization of the man he might run against for president in 2024. He  secured $12 million  from Florida’s legislature to carry out his pl...

  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY MIXED SIGNALS —   New England’s final primaries were as much a test   of former President Donald Trump’s hold over the GOP as they were a barometer for whether a dying breed of more moderate, less partisan Republicans could keep their way of politicking alive. The results were mixed. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is through  to a general election fight against Democrat Tom Sherman that forecasters say the incumbent is likely to win. Moderates also have hope in Rhode Island, where centrist former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung will take on Democratic state Treasurer Seth Magaziner in the 2nd Congressional District. But Massachusetts Republicans handed Trump-endorsed conservative  former state Rep. Geoff Diehl the party’s gubernatorial nomination last week over a more moderate businessman backed by Sununu. Moderate Gov. Charlie Baker, who declined to seek a third term, is refusing to weigh in on the race in which the D...