Biden and DeSantis have spoken regularly this week about the storm, which pummeled Florida's Big Bend region with Category 3 winds of nearly 125 miles per hour. Politics had not crept into their conversations, the president said.

President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come.

Biden, who praised DeSantis during the visit, said he was not disappointed by the governor’s absence and said DeSantis had helped plan the trip.

DeSantis’ spokesperson said on Friday the governor had no plans to meet Biden, saying “the security preparations alone that would go in to setting up such a meeting would shut down ongoing recovery efforts.”

  • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    There’s further context here. A right wing grifter on twitter openly recognized and mused about how this could be exploited as a topic and pushed for it to be adopted nationally as a rallying cry. He recognized there was no controversy but there could be. And so because of one asshole this nonissue took flight. Arguably the Virginia governor race was won by the right because of this exact nonissue, the current governor made it the foundation of his platform, even made a tip line to report crt being taught. Do you know how many instances of crt he’s uncovered? None. Do you know how I know? Because he would have jumped all over any instance and celebrated the victory. He has done no such thing in his entire time as governor.

    It’s just another nothing burger. Another sad pathetic attempt to create a boogey man for the right to justify their victim fetish. What a bunch of pathetic limp dick losers. Every last one of them.