Showing his command of both the response to Hurricane Milton and Florida state history after viewing storm damage in Fort Pierce, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) closed a Thursday afternoon press conference by sparring with a number of reporters who tried to bait him into directly blaming Hurricane Milton’s existence and damage on climate change. Having none of these political games, DeSantis schooled them.
Others were more blatant, but the one prior to them was more subtle: “Obviously with every hurricane the tornado are a concern, but it seems the story of Hurricane Milton really is all of tornadoes. Have you ever seen something of this magnitude, just as far as the number of tornadoes and the amount of damage they did?”
DeSantis didn’t engage in this and stuck to the facts that in “every hurricane, we have a lot of tornados spin off…sadly”…
