MSNBC’s Joy Reid Just Thrilled That Florida Has to Ask for Federal Aid Due to Hurricane Ian

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid seemingly took joy in the federal aid Florida will be receiving amid Hurricane Ian, smiling while reporting on the subject Thursday.

Reid invited her guest, former Florida Rep. David Jolly, who was a Republican but has since left the party, to discuss Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s voting history on federal aid during natural disasters. DeSantis served in Congress alongside the two-term representative Jolly, who lost to then-Democratic congressional candidate Charlie Crist in 2016. Crist is now DeSantis’s opponent in the 2022 gubernatorial race.

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“The heat’s coming because this is a governor who is the administrator of an economy on the brink of collapse, who has spent money on priorities that don’t support Floridians,” Jolly said. “And while today we focus on his executive leadership, there will be hard questions coming.”

“And by the way, it’s not even executive leadership. He simply — all he has to do now is open up his arms and receive federal money,” Reid said. “Let’s just be clear: People are going to have to go to FEMA. People are going to have to go to the feds for that money.”

Reid went on to discuss DeSantis’s and Jolly’s time in Congress, particularly when Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey. At the time, DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) were vocal in their opposition to sending aid to the states.

“Now, as you said, he’s now got to go hat in hand to Joe Biden for aid,” Reid said, grinning. “It’s something he didn’t even believe in as a Tea Partier.”

“He’s about to have to justify something that is antithetical to his entire ideological narrative, his story as a conservative Republican, anti-Washington, that people should absorb their own risk and people should take care of their own lives. Well in a time of tragedy, people need help,” Jolly said. “And where Ron DeSantis is a no-government conservative, he’s about to become a big-government Republican.”

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“That $12 million that they used to ship migrants and take those other migrants — that was money that was interest money from COVID relief funds. He didn’t want to use it for COVID relief. He wanted to use it for these demonstrations of cruelty because there actually, in the Republican Party, is no political reward for compassion,” Reid said. “There isn’t a Republican you can think of who’s been rewarded for demonstrating compassion. You get rewarded for doing stunts like DeSantis was doing before and being cruel.”

DeSantis’s wife, Casey, announced a donation of over $1.5 million to displaced Floridians via the Florida Disaster Fund. It has since raised over $10 million.