During a trip by Joe Biden to Florida, the politician shocked conservatives by heaping praise on the conservative Republican governor. During the visit, Biden said, “I think he’s done a good job,” Biden continued, despite the two having “different political philosophies.”
“I want to thank … Joe Biden, as well as administrator Deanne Chriswell for coming down here,” DeSantis said of Biden’s visit.
“We were very fortunate to have good coordination with the White House and with FEMA from the very beginning of this, we declared a state of emergency last Friday Sep. 23 … we really appreciated that and that basically set off the massive mobilization that we had ready to be able to respond to the storm,” the governor added.
According to PowerOutage.us, “The meeting took place in Lee County, the site of the 55 of the 109 reported deaths from the hurricane. As of Wednesday afternoon, there were still 283,088 power outages in Florida.”
But despite heaping praise on DeSantis, Biden said Hurricane Ian “has finally ended the discussion on whether or not there’s climate change and we should do something about it.”
“The biggest thing the governor’s done and so many others have done, they’ve recognized there’s this thing called global warming.”
President Biden and Florida Governor DeSantis pic.twitter.com/igXigXXS3Y
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