As Hurricane Milton approaches the Florida coast, Gov. Ron DeSantis is doing what all leaders do, ensuring that his state is prepared to deal with what will be a devastating storm. This is the second hurricane to hit Florida in the last two weeks.
The media and Kamala Harris chose to attack him despite all he was doing, including giving public briefings. They did this because of a thinly sourced article that claimed, without any evidence, that DeSantis had refused to answer Harris’ phone after Hurricane Helene struck.
“… playing political games with this moment in these crises, these are the height of emergencies, it’s just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish,” Harris said when asked about the NBC News story.
DeSantis was not having it. He blasted a reporter who injected politics into a Hurricane briefing, and later Harris for politicizing a crisis that she had no part in resolving.
Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist/political expert, discussed the topic on CNN on Monday night. He gave facts on why this attack might (and should) hurt Harris as she enters the final stretch of her campaign, not DeSantis.
- JENNINGS: She’s attacking a governor in a state about to be hit by one of the worst hurricanes ever. Is she insane? He didn’t ignore her call.
- PHILLIP: To be clear, I believe she was talking about the politicization and the storms.
- JENNINGS: I believe she was referring to Ron DeSantis. He didn’t ignore her call. According to what I read tonight, he spoke with the President of the United States.
- PHILLIP: He spoke with President Biden.
- JENNINGS: He has repeatedly said that he, and the federal government, work well together. Who is politicizing it?
- MICHAELSON (to Scott): I’m sorry to say that I agree with Scott, but in this case I do. You know, I don’t believe I’m from Florida. I grew up in Tampa. Tampa is right — in the right place right now. Many of my friends have been evacuated. Some people are hunkering themselves down. Ron DeSantis is not my favorite, but he’s doing the right thing as a governor.
- Jennings went on to talk more generally about the federal response after Helene, and how that, too, made Biden, and Harris, look bad.
- JENNINGS: I think that the facts are enough to make me angry. Biden and Harris were both at the beach when the storm hit. That was September 26th.
On September 27th, we had devastation in North Carolina. The president did not mobilize the military until the second of October. It wasn’t until October 5th that the president mobilized 500 military search and rescue personnel.
Two things are going on, I believe. What is needed and available to the immediate affected people? Consult your local officials and governors on this. Yes, there are some important conversations to have about the priorities of spending.
Watch:
It’s legitimately crazy that Harris attacked Governor DeSantis, who is prepping for a historically bad storm. She’s politicizing when she and Biden were SLOW on their decisions. Discussed tonight on @cnn (h/t to my friend @EWErickson on the timeline) https://t.co/KUbKYj0JGK pic.twitter.com/MTKqJ72fps
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 8, 2024
At this point, it’s a simple fact that Joe Biden & Kamala Harris did not cover themselves in glory after Hurricane Helene & ahead of Hurricane Milton. The optics of their beach trip & campaign fundraisers as well as the slow response of western North Carolina to the devastation caused by Helene are what many people still wonder about.
Kamala Harris was wrong if she thought that attacking DeSantis during hurricane preparation for a potentially devastating storm was a good idea. Kamala Harris is a notoriously wrong person on many issues, and that’s why she is unfit to hold the office she wants.