{"id":2008358,"date":"2023-08-22T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-huckabee-blasts-bidens-comments-in-hawaii-about-his-first-wifes-death\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:31:59","slug":"mike-huckabee-blasts-bidens-comments-in-hawaii-about-his-first-wifes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-huckabee-blasts-bidens-comments-in-hawaii-about-his-first-wifes-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee criticizes Biden&#8217;s remarks on his late wife&#8217;s passing in Hawaii."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-huckabee-blasts-bidens-comments-in-hawaii-about-his-first-wifes-death%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Presidential Candidate Criticizes Biden&#8217;s Comments on Hawaii Visit<\/h2>\n<p>Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has \u200bvoiced his criticism of President Joe Biden&#8217;s remarks during\u2064 his\u200d visit to \u2063Hawaii, accusing Biden of focusing on himself \u2062rather \u200dthan\u200b the tragedy at hand.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to survey the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize\">damage caused<\/a> \u200cby the Maui wildfires, Biden shared personal stories of past fires that affected him. Huckabee, a Republican,\u2062 likened Biden to a Saturday Night Live character \u2064named Penelope, \u2063who always found a way to make her situation seem more\u2063 significant.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like Joe Biden\u200d is playing the role of Penelope,&#8221; Huckabee remarked during an appearance on Fox News&#8217;s Hannity.\u200b &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s funny. It&#8217;s comedy. But it&#8217;s not funny when the president of the United States is so\u2064 tone-deaf to the extraordinary tragedy these people have felt and he talks about himself rather than talk about\u200c them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Huckabee acknowledged the loss Biden experienced with the \u2063death of his first wife but\u200b argued that it was not what the people \u200cof Maui needed\u2063 to hear\u2063 at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>The fire Biden\u2062 mentioned during his visit occurred in 2004 when lightning\u2063 struck near \u2064his Delaware home. However, according to the Cranston\u200c Heights Fire Company, the fire was quickly contained and did not require a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-section-responds-to-biden-accounts-of-2004-fire-phone-calls-incident-insignificant\/\" title=\"Fire Section Responds To Biden Accounts Of 2004 Fire, Phone calls Incident \u2018Insignificant\u2019\">widespread incident response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, Biden pledged federal aid to assist in the\u200b rebuilding of\u2062 Maui. This promise followed the announcement that the Federal \u200cEmergency Management Agency had authorized critical needs assistance, providing a one-time payment of $700 per\u2064 household to applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii expressed her \u200dconcerns about the lack of trust in government \u200dleaders following the \u2063wildfires. She \u2062also criticized the $700 payment to Maui\u200c residents, considering it to be insufficient for those who have lost everything.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Anybody who has been to Hawaii knows that $700 does not go very far\u200c at \u2062a time when so many have lost everything,&#8221; Gabbard stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the search-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-biden-speaks-after-touring-maui-wildfire-devastation\/\" title=\"LIVE: Biden addresses Maui wildfire aftermath\">-rescue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/passenger-trains-collide-killing-56-in-pakistan\/\" title=\"Passenger trains collide, killing 56 in Pakistan\">efforts continue<\/a><\/a> \u2063in the affected communities, officials\u2062 in Maui reported that 850 people are still missing. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-huckabee-blasts-bidens-comments-in-hawaii-about-his-first-wifes-death\/\" title=\"Mike Huckabee criticizes Biden's remarks on his late wife's passing in Hawaii.\">confirmed \u200bdeath toll stands<\/a> at 114, but this number\u200d may rise as the efforts continue.<\/p>\n<h3>Debate Performances \u2064That Boosted Previous Campaigns and 2024 Candidates Who Could Replicate Them<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>firefighter who lost his life battling the wildfires. Huckabee believes Biden&#8217;s focus should have been on the current tragedy, not personal experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2008359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}