Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has firmly denied recent reports suggesting that he refused a phone call from Vice President Kamala Harris in the critical hours leading up to Hurricane Milton’s expected landfall. The accusation, initially reported by ABC News, implied that DeSantis was avoiding contact with Harris, further intensifying the already strained relationship between the Florida governor and the Biden administration.
Hurricane Milton, which rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm, poses a severe threat to Florida’s Gulf Coast, including the Tampa Bay region. As evacuation orders are issued and residents brace for the storm, tensions between federal and state leaders over disaster coordination have come under scrutiny. The incident, however, took on a political angle after ABC News reported on Monday that DeSantis had declined to take a call from Harris regarding hurricane response efforts.
ABC News, citing an anonymous source “close to the governor,” suggested that some staffers viewed Harris’s outreach as a politically motivated gesture rather than an earnest attempt at cooperation. This report gained attention, particularly given the long-standing feud between DeSantis and Disney, the parent company of ABC, further raising suspicions about the timing and motive behind the claim.
As the storm approached, Harris was asked about the situation while boarding a plane. In her response, she criticized DeSantis, accusing him of prioritizing political games over the well-being of Floridians. “Moments of crisis, if nothing else, should really be the moment that anyone who calls themselves a leader says they’re going to put politics aside and put the people first,” Harris remarked. She went on to accuse DeSantis of being “utterly irresponsible” and “selfish” for allegedly refusing her call, saying, “It is about political gamesmanship instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first.”
Harris’s sharp rebuke fueled the narrative that DeSantis was politicizing a crucial moment of disaster preparedness, potentially undermining collaboration between federal and state officials in the midst of an emergency. However, within hours, DeSantis directly addressed the situation during a press conference, firmly rejecting the claims and calling them completely false.
“No, I didn’t know she called me. I saw [the report], but I was not aware of that,” DeSantis said. He clarified that while he had communicated with President Joe Biden during the response to Hurricane Helene the previous week, he had not received any recent calls from either Biden or Harris. “Biden called me a couple of days ago with Helene when I was on the helicopter. I didn’t have any issues. They helped us with what we’ve done,” he added, emphasizing that the state had received all necessary federal assistance for the ongoing recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene.
DeSantis went on to stress that his administration has maintained strong communication with federal authorities regarding disaster response and has received all required approvals. “At the same time, we got the approvals that we need. If there’s something else that we need, I’ll hop on the phone very quickly whether that’s a FEMA administrator or the president, and we will press the case to be able to get approvals for what we need in Florida,” he assured Floridians. “But we have gotten approvals for everything that we’ve asked for.”
The governor also dismissed the allegations that his office had politicized the situation. “I didn’t know that she had called, so I’m not sure who they called. They didn’t call me, and their characterization of it was something that they did—it wasn’t anything that anybody in my office did in terms of saying that it was political,” DeSantis clarified.
ABC News’ original report, coupled with Harris’s comments, appears to have created a narrative that DeSantis was deliberately avoiding coordination with the White House. This claim, however, now seems to lack factual basis following DeSantis’s explanation. As the situation continues to develop, the focus shifts back to the immediate threat posed by Hurricane Milton and the efforts underway to protect residents and mitigate damage.
While this exchange adds another layer of tension between DeSantis and the Biden-Harris administration, DeSantis made it clear that his priority remains the safety of Florida’s residents. He reiterated that if any further federal assistance is needed as Hurricane Milton approaches, his administration would not hesitate to engage with federal officials to secure necessary resources.
As Hurricane Milton looms large, residents are urged to heed evacuation orders and prepare for what could be catastrophic winds, storm surges, and flooding. Both state and federal disaster response teams are expected to coordinate efforts closely as the storm makes its way toward Florida’s Gulf Coast.
The dispute between DeSantis and Harris, while briefly grabbing headlines, appears to have been a misunderstanding or miscommunication, further exacerbated by political tensions. The governor’s reassurances that disaster response coordination with the federal government remains intact should provide Floridians with a measure of confidence as they prepare for the hurricane’s impact.
For now, the focus returns to the urgent task at hand—protecting lives and property in the face of a dangerous and rapidly approaching storm.
So FEMA has no money to assist NC residents since it was all spent on illegals, food, housing, clothing while the Communist Democrats decided that illegals come first.
So what makes anyone think Florida, will receive any assistance.?
it/she/him is a total liar, make believe robot! The sooner everyone knows what it really is and it does not care 1 bit about the people or animals that are impacted. It/she and her husband bought a great deal of stock in the lithiem mining group in North Carolina BEFORE the fake made for impact of hurricane Helene, now how did they know it would be directed to that location?
People need to wake up to the total collapse of our government of thieves with the biggest one being fema.
Lying turkey neck scank, the filthy pig never called DeSantis, she was calling her crack connection in Florida. Bext time I see her face I want it to be on a fence post.
Someone needs to check her phone records to verify if she called, even if she did why would he need to speak with her, she isn’t the President and does not have the power to do anything without Biden’s approval so why waste your time with her. For her to say DeSantis is being selfish is so ridiculous it’s unbelievable that she would criticize someone working round the clock for his citizens while she’s out doing fluff interviews trying to make herself look important when she hasn’t done anything or shown any concern for those who have lost everything shows who she really is, and it’s not showing she’s ready to be the President. Then to continue to try to get people to push the idea that there is disinformation being spread when she does speak is just trying to cover for their lack of response. The people on the ground who need help are still saying the only they have received is from neighbors and private individuals. That is their reality/ and the government can say there are people there but until they have seen them and receive help it doesn’t matter. Joe sitting on the beach and Kamala laughing it up at fund raisers is all they will remember and that showed who they were and how little they cared. They both should have been at the White House talking to the people and seeing that everything that could be done was done and should have been on air comforting the people suffering, they failed that very basic task.
What could she do ? Giggling is not of any value. A photo session is not what was needed.
You’re all spot-on with the comments, and all we see and hear from this witch is the same shit different day routine that she performed like an insane giggling robot for over three and a half years! I had some remarks about our present state of affairs and cesspool government in comments I made elsewhere on this site that duly apply here too!
To me this is obviously the case and has been for many decades as the country and system of governance has been infiltrated and eroded beyond repair! Let’s put it this way; the door to the hen-house has been left wide open for the foxes and wolves!
The following quote from an article about a novel, The Ugly American back in the late 1950’s when Communism was wickedly on the rise as you well know in South East Asia where we lost 58,220 U.S. soldiers as the Soviet Marxist devils pushed that evil satanic ideology through that region but ultimately look at this witch Harris who is one (Marxist) and now in the running for US President!
“Sears dislikes the people and the job he is supposed to do. His Russian counterpart has learned the Sarkhanese language and made the interests of the people his own.
It is this sort of thing, the authors believe, that is making it possible for the Soviets to take over Asia in bloodless conquest.
Their answer would be to kick out the deadheads and reupholster our whole foreign service with “well-trained professionals who are dedicated to their jobs and who will work in the interest of the native people. Only in this way, they imply, can we “save” Asia from the Communists.” ://wordhistories.net/2019/09/09/ugly-american/
My reason for bringing this out is that back then some good true Americans were dedicated to stopping the spread of evil Communism pushing rapidly around the Globe, and so much blood was shed in South East Asia to supposedly prevent that from happening, where actually many good patriotic American soldiers fought valiantly to stop it. But all for naught, because those devious, calculating Commies along with America’s screwed up, upper political class, the Pelosi’s, Schumer’s, Biden’s and McConnell types of that upper echelon where working against America all along and were going to sell out for a price (American Arrogance, Greed and Vanity which many of those higher ups are infected with) leaving the American Patriotic Citizens “high and dry” and in a “Deadly Quagmire” which is where we are right now!
Look around; “America is now really UGLY and SCREWED, BLUED and TATTOOED!” So yes, those other ugly adversaries the Communists, they won “after all was said and done;” because, they found our weakness or “Achilles Heel” and took full advantage of it and US! They’re not only in South East Asia, but they got the “Crème-Le-Crème” and are now here in America! They’ve infiltrated our system and culture on all levels and are turning the page!
Harris being promoted by evil ABC and all major corporate news outlets that are controlled by the most nefarious evil people on earth is just part of the Satanic plan! The world is full of trickery! A very politically connected person I once had dealings with when I was involved with both mass media and government employment for a short time; I asked what the hell is wrong with these people, he replied, “we’re just doing what we’re told to do, we’re just play the game!” I said, you mean selling out!
Giving “the illusion” that these “fat cats and actually gluttons” that “don’t give a rat’s ass” about what the “plebs or peasants in the streets and trenches are doing,” or especially what will happen to them when “all hell breaks loose,” all of this current rhetoric of theirs is “mass manipulation” or even like what happened during the “Covid Plan-demic,” “mass formation psychosis!”
They treat the fans like “a herd of dumb animals” is all; which is actually the truth; about how some “slimy vain materialistic self-worshiping glorified snake-like persona that Jezebel” hidden within an image of an independent mega-star “girlie singer” of the “Crooked Ways of the World” Taylor Swift who appears to have it all; really feels about it all. The $Billions in revenues and the business model with her Industry Partners is “their bottom-line,” and that’s what they (Taylor) “tailor” their strategy around always maintaining that “bottom-line (Money) and the illusion” they have over a large swath of the public; many of them in that public unfortunately very stupid, gullible, brainwashed, screwed in the head or totally lost to begin with.
During the fall of the Roman Empire the same game was in play as “the powers that be” or the “ruling class” gave much of the “public mob or herds” what they wanted and distracted them from the reality of how controlled they really were and will be when the party is over; after all of the “Bread and Circus”!
“Bread and circuses” (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace,[1] by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses). Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.[2][3][4] The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.”
In addition just look how they toss so much of the taxpayer’s (citizens) money at “Illegal Invaders” to “suck them in for use later!” As the definition points out here what was done all those thousands of years ago still works like a charm.
“Juvenal refers to the Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. The earliest known Annona (the gift of free or subsidized grain to nominated citizens) was begun under the instigation of the aristocratic politician Gaius Sempronius Gracchus in 123 BC. The annona remained an object of political contention until it was taken under the control of the autocratic Roman emperors.”
(wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses)
Even say like the analogy of the frog being so passively content in the kettle of “cool water” which is slowly being heated to cook him; but never realized it until it was too late! Being half-baked (in the head, Dumbed-Down) or cooked alive doesn’t leave much strength to “run for your life” at that point. When the frog finally knew for sure that they were cooking him, it was “too little too late” and they got to eat him!
A new novel that I propose; The Stupid Arrogant American.
I do believe in “miracles and that there is always hope;” so it will now take “a colossal amount of both” to pull out of this downward spiral without “a total revolution.”
What’s this in Pennsylvania, Ballot curing? No, Ballot Harvesting or Rigging! What they’ve done in Californication for decades keeping slime like Maxine Waters, Nancy Piglosi and all the rest in office for far beyond their expiration date! This isn’t how you elect this is how you control!
God bless.
Brother in-Christ Jesus-Lawrence