Ron DeSantis has no plans to meet with President Biden on Saturday when the commander in chief visits parts of the state most impacted by Hurricane Idalia.
“We don’t have any plans for the governor to meet with the president tomorrow,” DeSantis’ press secretary, Jeremy Redfern,“In these rural communities, and so soon after impact, the security preparations alone that would go into setting up such a meeting would shut down ongoing recovery efforts,” he added.
DeSantis, 44, who is vying to challenge Biden, 80, in the 2024 presidential election, has been in frequent contact with the White House since the Category 3 storm made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast earlier this week — but the lack of planned face-to-face meeting between the two contradicts what the president told the media on Friday.
“Yes,” Biden responded when asked by a reporter if he planned to meet with DeSantis at some point during his Florida trip. White House Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall also suggested on Friday that she expected a Biden-DeSantis meeting.“We’re just planning the visit, but I will say that every time I’ve been to Florida with the president, he has met, of course, with Gov. DeSantis and traveled the disaster zone, whether it’s from last year’s hurricane or when the“Often, they’ll meet, have a briefing from the emergency responders. It can be in the open, as it was from the hurricane last year.
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