Ron DeSantis throws televised conniption fit after reports that he ignored Kamala Harris’s calls to discuss hurricane relief
Ron DeSantis throws televised conniption fit after reports that he ignored Kamala Harris’s calls to discuss hurricane relief
“She has no role in this.”
Ron DeSantis attacked Kamala Harris during an interview Monday night, calling her “delusional” amid reports that the Florida governor refused to take the VP’s calls to discuss hurricane relief.
Asked earlier in the day about a report that, as a DeSantis aide described, “Kamala was trying to reach out, and [the DeSantis team] didn’t answer,” the vice president told reporters, “People are in desperate need of support right now, and playing political games at this moment, in these crisis situations—these are the height of emergency situations—it’s utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish, and it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first.”
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During an appearance on The View on Tuesday, Harris said it was a “shame” she hadn’t been able to speak to DeSantis, and that she will continue to call him when she is president.
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Isn't it the VP's job to be "Hand of the President" during emergencies?
What’s your point? She’s trying to contact the representative of the state to be able to get shit done and that representative is essentially telling her to fuck off. A general doesn’t order the corporals around, they go down the chain of command vaguely in order, and so the same thing happens in most any power structure even if the highest leader is fairly involved. And this isn’t a situation where you can just fire the problem and move on.
4 roles:
- Certify the presidential election
- Succeed the President
- Break ties in the Senate
- Be head of the President's cabinet
They have no other job than that unless the President assigns them something to do.
#4 seems like an iceberg. Tiny name but could mean a shit ton of different things couldn't it?
"Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs"
So she has to head that group... Yikes.
The VP certainly is the second in command of the administration for any administration that has internal cooperation. Ms. Harris offering this aid is not Candidate Harris offering aid, but the Biden administration offering aid, or ideally, the executive branch of the United States offering aid.
Biden has shit going on at the moment and after the shitshow this summer has taken a less publicly visible role, and VP Harris has stepped up for such things. That’s not unheard of especially when confidence is shaken in a sitting president.
It's common for the VP to make contact in natural disasters. Reason being that the President's office must remain open to other events of higher priority.
Says the petty asshole playing political games with people's lives.
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