‘Great job’: Joe Biden sidesteps Kamala Harris call controversy, extols Gov. DeSantis’ storm performance

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'I literally gave him my personal phone number to call.'

Speaking on Hurricane Milton preparations, President Joe Biden had nothing but nice things to say about a frequent critic from Florida, saying he was doing a “great job.”

“The Governor of Florida has been cooperative. He said he’s gotten all that he needs. I talked to him again yesterday,” Biden said. “I literally gave him my personal phone number to call.”

Biden’s buoyant words about Gov. Ron DeSantis continue a rare rapprochement between the Democrat in the White House and the Republican state leader who once ran to replace him, as the Governor acknowledged during a press conference at the Emergency Operations Center.

“Well, what I said yesterday is everything that we’ve asked for the administration has approved. There’s not anything that we’ve asked for that they haven’t. If there’s something that comes up, you know, I said I would not hesitate to get on the phone and call and ask directly on behalf of the people of Florida,” DeSantis said, affirming again that Biden said to “call or send a letter” if there were other needs.

The newly functional Biden-DeSantis dynamic presents a stark contrast to the ongoing feud between the Governor and Biden’s second-in-command.

The Governor took to Fox News Monday night and Tuesday morning to tell the rest of the story regarding his disconnect with “delusional” Kamala Harris. He took issue with the Vice President’s claim that the Florida Governor was playing “political games” and being “selfish” in not talking to her.

“She has no role in this process,” DeSantis said, saying the VP has “never contributed anything” to storm recovery efforts, and noting that he had talked to Biden earlier Monday evening.

While DeSantis would not meet with Biden in the aftermath of 2023’s Idalia or September’s Helene, it’s clear he is willing to be seen as functioning well with the President.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


32 comments

  • Anti hurricane

    October 8, 2024 at 12:33 pm

    DeSantis does nothing but play politics.. he didn’t take the first call from the President . He trashes this administration everyday for 4 years except when he wants money. He is anti science, anti climate change, anti diversity, anti women , anti democracy.

    • Billy Rotberg

      October 8, 2024 at 1:10 pm

      Gillum and Christ lost. Get over it!

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    • Bobblehead Kammy

      October 8, 2024 at 1:15 pm

      You are anti-American.

      • Bobblehead Kammy

        October 8, 2024 at 1:16 pm

        That wasn’t aimed at you Billy

        • The Blue Wave is Coming

          October 8, 2024 at 1:28 pm

          Billy and Bobblebutthole are anti American!! I’ll help you pack you morons! We can ship you and your saviors Rump and Rhonda with you. Ignorant people I swear get a clue and stop watching Faux News

          • Billy Rotberg

            October 8, 2024 at 1:47 pm

            Not a trump fan or fox news viewer. You have shit for brains. Just admit it, you’re a cult!

          • Bobblehead Kammy

            October 8, 2024 at 1:59 pm

            Is that all you have Joy Behar?

        • Billy Rotberg

          October 8, 2024 at 1:43 pm

          I know. Funny how the governor has only received calls from biden and Trump when it comes to storms and now suddenly harris calls. Would it have something to do with her campaign? I’m sure of it.

          • TAMMY R DUNHAM

            October 9, 2024 at 11:55 am

            Exactly! 100%

    • Marcia Ann Fierro

      October 9, 2024 at 2:07 am

      EXACTLY 💯 % on point 👈

  • MHDuuuval

    October 8, 2024 at 1:41 pm

    Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in 2020. Yet, low-information MAGAs keep on yowling about Gillum and Crist.

    • Billy Rotberg

      October 8, 2024 at 1:46 pm

      I’m libertarian. The liberal child mind is dumb enough to believe all who don’t like them MUST be for Trump. Just admit it, you’re a cult!

      • Bobblehead Kammy

        October 8, 2024 at 2:02 pm

        I call
        Them
        Zombies. That’s what they are

        • Billy Rotberg

          October 8, 2024 at 2:49 pm

          Yeah, they really are will-less, mindless corpses that act without thinking who do not notice what is happening. Pure instinct and robotic. They remind me of borg drones.

      • yew oweme

        October 8, 2024 at 10:41 pm

        BILLY BOY, you’re a libertarian, no wonder you are so lost. libertarians aren’t team players, they just complain and criticize. that fits you well. you are definitely not a team player. a misfit is what i think you are based on your misfit comments. libertarian, what a joke.

      • MHDuuuval

        October 8, 2024 at 10:51 pm

        So, you will state for the record that you won’t be voting for DJT (a third time)?

    • Bobblehead Kammy

      October 8, 2024 at 2:02 pm

      You voted for Gillum didn’t you. Are you upset you weren’t invited to his rave party on Miami Beach? Looks like girls weren’t invited. 🤣

      • Billy Rotberg

        October 8, 2024 at 2:50 pm

        Indeed. It was a male only event.

        • MHDuuuval

          October 8, 2024 at 10:52 pm

          How would you know this?

    • Billy Rotberg

      October 8, 2024 at 2:10 pm

      Here in America, we use the electoral college not the popular vote. The founders did this because of people like you.

      • MHDuuuval

        October 8, 2024 at 10:54 pm

        The Founders did this to keep the slaveocracy in the South in the union. 3/5 Clause ring a bell?

        • MHDuuuval

          October 9, 2024 at 9:13 pm

          The problem with the EC today is the “winner take all” apportioning of voters from each state.

  • Billy Rotberg

    October 8, 2024 at 1:48 pm

    I’m still waiting for you harris cultists to name 10 of her accomplishments. What’s taking so long?

    • Bill

      October 8, 2024 at 3:10 pm

      She’s not Trump. There is no option 3 so pick your poison.

    • Skeptic

      October 8, 2024 at 3:27 pm

      Billy, Billy, Billy. Remedial civics would teach you that a Vice President has no powers, other than breaking votes in the Senate. So there are plenty of accomplishments — indeed everything in her constitutional portfolio. Did you have some extra-constitutional matters in mind? Those tend to be actions of Republican Vice Presidents. . . .

  • Billy Rotberg

    October 8, 2024 at 3:52 pm

    Ah yes, skeptic chimes in with it’s holier than thou nonsense. Everone knows she has no accomplishments. But then again, you people have clearly demonstrated you cannot control your emotions when replying, or anything else for that matter.

    • MHDuuuval

      October 8, 2024 at 10:12 pm

      Still waiting the bold MAGAs to list DJT’s ten accomplishments.

      None in the past and none on the horizon except more lies, distortions, libel, bullying, deflections, autocrat worship, sexual harassment, stiffing contractors, abusing the military, and police, scofflaw and draft dodger.

    • yew oweme

      October 8, 2024 at 10:47 pm

      BILLYBOY, just about everyone is holier than thou when compared to you. dude, look at yourself honestly for a change and snap out of that dunning-kruger effect. i saw no ” emotion ” in sceptic’s post. you must be projecting again. boy you are such a mess.

  • Frankie M.

    October 8, 2024 at 9:24 pm

    After Milton Ronnie will just blame Biden for praising him.

    • MHDuuuval

      October 9, 2024 at 11:06 am

      This event will pad Dee’s resumer for autocratic leadership. Meanwhile, he’s attempting to subvert two questions on the ballot in Nov., and threatening to sue a TV station that runs an ad that contradicts hiii position on woman’s reproductive freedom.

      I suggest Dee and Co. move to Hungary where his views would be welcome.

  • Aisha Sharma

    October 14, 2024 at 2:17 am

    👏 Nice to see Biden and DeSantis working together during Hurricane Milton prep! 🌪️ Despite political differences, cooperation for the people of Florida is what matters most. 💪💼

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