DeSantis: Kamala Harris ‘Doesn’t Understand What It Means to Respond to These Natural Disasters’

SORKIN: “Hey Governor, could you just help clear something else up that happened earlier this week, and we were actually debating it at this table, so I got to ask? There was some praise that came your way from President Biden, and said that they had spoken, you had spoken, then there was this brouhaha over Vice President Harris apparently reaching out to you, and maybe not taking the call, and this whole thing, accusations that this had all become politicized. Can you just speak to what happened there?”
DeSantis: “I am working with the president of the United States. I’m working with the director of FEMA. I’m marshalling all my state assets. We’ve been doing this now nonstop for over two weeks between Helene and this. And so if there’s anything I can leverage to benefit my people, I’m going to do it. The fact of the matter is, they put out a story saying I didn’t take — I didn’t even know she was trying to reach me, but she has no role in this process. And I’ve been dealing with these storms in Florida under both Trump and Biden. Neither of them ever politicized it. And in fact, all the storms I’ve dealt with under this administration, although I’ve worked well with the president, she has never called in Florida. She has never offered any support. So what she’s doing is she’s trying to inject herself into this because of her political campaign. So as the governor here who’s leading this, I don’t have time for those games. I don’t care about her campaign, obviously I’m not a supporter of hers, but she’s not — she has no role in this process. And so I’m working with the people I need to be working with. We’re leveraging the resources I need to be leveraging. And for her to try to say that my focus should be on catering to her rather than worrying about my own people, just shows she doesn’t understand what it means to respond to these natural disasters.”