As RedState reported earlier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press briefing on Monday to discuss the state’s preparations for Hurricane Milton, which is projected to hit the Sunshine State Wednesday night as a devastating Category 3 storm.
Understandably, DeSantis wanted to provide assurances to residents that the state was doing everything it could ahead of the storm. Unfortunately, one of the so-called reporters decided to play politics during the briefing by pressing DeSantis over an anonymously sourced NBC News story that alleged he refused to take a call from Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris after Hurricane Helene hit.
“Some of these questions are just trying to create some sort of political angle,” DeSantis stated as he shut down the journalist’s line of questioning. “I understand that’s the business model [for your news organization], but I don’t want to talk about politics.”
But at the end of the day, the media is always going to do media things, which is exactly what happened when they brought the latest DeSantis “scandal” to Harris herself.
Harris, as RedState readers will recall, has notoriously largely avoided taking questions on the tarmac (or anywhere else for that matter) since becoming the nominee. But she pounced and seized on this one, accusing DeSantis of playing politics and saying this was not the time:
“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. People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games with this moment in these crisis situations, these are the height of emergency situations, it’s just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish.”