Politicians' handling of natural disasters — including their willingness to work with their opponents — can stick with them for years.
to remarks from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who pronounced on his popular Daily Wire podcast that the Idalia management was “the best of Ron DeSantis” and evidence of “why he would make a good president.
” “Ron DeSantis exhibited exceptional leadership by successfully guiding his state through another historic storm, leaving the campaign trail to focus on the needs of Floridians,” DeSantis communications director Andrew Romeo wrote in an email to reporters Thursday. “He is working to ensure the state’s recovery response is swift and well-managed. The resources that were staged prior to landfall enabled recovery to begin immediately, and he is personally ensuring that Florida is serving the needs of those impacted.” Biden and DeSantis have spoken of each other politely this week, with the president pledging federal aid and the governor indicating that Florida would accept whatever is available. BidenAt a news conference Wednesday, Biden said he had not sensed any political undertones in his discussions with DeSantis about Idalia. “I think he trusts my judgment and my desire to help,” Biden said. “And I trust him to be able to suggest ... that this it’s not about politics, it’s about taking care of the people in the state.”“We have to deal with supporting the needs of the people who are in harm’s way or have difficulties, and that has got to triumph over any type of short-term political calculation or any type of positioning,” he told reporters Wednesday., at which DeSantis announced that electricity had been restored to 476,000 homes and businesses, the governor hinted that he might avoid meeting with the president during Saturday's visit. He said that he had encouraged Biden in one of their phone conversions to avoid the hardest-hit areas. “It would be very disruptive to have the whole kind of security apparatus that goes, because there’s only so many ways to get into these places,” DeSantis said. “And so, what we want to do is make sure that the power restoration continues, that the relief efforts continue, and that we don’t have any interruption in that … and I’m sure they’ll be sensitive to that.” As for the Christie contrast, the post-Sandy tour with Obama may not be the cleanest comparison to what DeSantis is facing. Obama was in the final days of a contest that many believed would be close and that he eventually won with a comfortable Electoral College margin. DeSantis is in the middle of a primary battle, more than a year away from the 2024 general election. “The proper way to handle it for any governor is to just show people that you’re doing your job,” Palatucci said. “You have to welcome the president, because your citizens are going to need federal help to recover. That’s what the adults do.”
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