If there’s one thing we didn’t expect to see amid the debate over storm prep/relief efforts after Hurricane Helene and ahead of Milton it was President Joe Biden refusing to take the bait on (ridiculous) questions about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ leadership.
Time after time over the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen Biden resist calls from the media to criticize DeSantis’ handling of both hurricanes, insisting that they’d been in contact, that he was confident in DeSantis’ abilities, and that DeSantis knew he could call Biden’s personal phone number if he needed anything.
Most recently, Biden fielded a question from a reporter who point-blank asked him about the NBC News hit piece on DeSantis allegedly not taking Vice President Kamala Harris’ post-Helene call. When Biden was asked if DeSantis should be answering when she calls, Biden simply said that DeSantis had been “gracious” in…
