{"id":2020268,"date":"2023-09-02T13:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-wont-meet-with-biden-during-florida-trip-to-survey-hurricane-damage\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:15:04","slug":"desantis-wont-meet-with-biden-during-florida-trip-to-survey-hurricane-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-wont-meet-with-biden-during-florida-trip-to-survey-hurricane-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis declines meeting Biden on Florida trip to assess hurricane aftermath."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdesantis-wont-meet-with-biden-during-florida-trip-to-survey-hurricane-damage%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=2020268&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--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Florida Governor Declines Meeting with President Biden Amid Hurricane Recovery Efforts<\/h2>\n<p>A spokesperson for Florida Gov. Ron\u200c DeSantis\u200d has announced that the Republican would \u2064not \u200dbe \u2062meeting with President Joe Biden as the incumbent is\u200b set to travel to the Sunshine State on Sept. 2 to survey \u200dthe damage from this week&#8217;s Hurricane Idalia, suggesting that doing so could \u2062interfere \u200cwith\u200c recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In\u200c these rural\u2062 communities,\u200d and so soon after impact,\u2064 the security preparations alone that \u2064would\u2062 go \u200binto setting up such a meeting \u200dwould shut down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-issues-statement-over-classified-document-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Issues Statement Over Classified Document Scandal\">ongoing recovery efforts<\/a>,&#8221; Jeremy\u2063 Redfern said in a statement on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Biden,\u200b a Democrat who is running\u2064 for \u2062re-election next year, told reporters at the\u2064 White House earlier this week that he would\u2063 meet \u200bwith Mr. DeSantis during his trip\u2064 to Florida over \u2064the weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/in-final-hours-before-landfall-hurricane-idalia-stopped-intensifying-and-turned-from-tallahassee-5484989\">In Final Hours Before Landfall, Hurricane Idalia \u200cStopped Intensifying\u2064 and \u2062Turned From Tallahassee<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/1\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-addresses-hurricane-idalia-aftermath-critiques-desantis-5484325\">Trump Addresses Hurricane Idalia Aftermath, \u200bCriticizes DeSantis<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/1\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, when Mr. DeSantis\u2062 was asked \u200dabout\u2064 President Biden&#8217;s \u200dimpending visit, \u200cthe governor expressed concern\u2062 that the visit\u2063 could be \u201cvery disruptive\u201d to ongoing relief operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing that \u2062I did\u2063 mention\u200c to him on the phone is\u2064 where these communities, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-congratulates-himself-for-trumps-achievements\/\" title=\"Biden Congratulates Himself \u2026 For Trump\u2019s Achievements\">hardest hit communities<\/a>, it would be very disruptive to have \u200dthe whole kind of security apparatus that goes because there are \u200bonly so many ways to get into these places,&#8221; \u2062he said.<\/p>\n<p>In response to \u2062Mr. DeSantis&#8217;s office\u200c preemptively calling\u200c off the meeting, White House spokeswoman Emilie \u2064Simons\u2062 said in a statement\u200d that &#8220;President Biden and the\u200d first lady \u2063look forward to meeting members of \u2064the\u2062 community \u200dimpacted by Hurricane Idalia and surveying impacts of\u200c the storm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ms. Simons\u200d added that the first family&#8217;s visit to Florida has been planned &#8220;in close coordination&#8221; with members\u2064 of \u2062the Federal Emergency\u2062 Management Agency\u2063 (FEMA) as well as state and \u200dlocal leaders\u2063 &#8220;to ensure \u200cthere\u200b is no impact on response operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FEMA Administrator Deanna Criswell, meanwhile, told CNN on Sept. 2 that\u2063 President\u2062 Biden personally contacted Mr. \u200cDeSantis ahead of his visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the\u2064 president\u200c contacted\u2063 the governor to let him \u2062know he was going \u200dto be visiting \u2026 the governor\u2019s team and my \u2064team, mutually agreed on a place that would have minimal impact into operations,&#8221; Ms. Criswell said. \u200b&#8221;Live Oak, you \u2064know, the power is being restored.\u2062 The roads aren\u2019t blocked, but there\u2019s families that are hurting there,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>After landing at\u200c the airport in Gainesville, a city in northern Florida, President Biden is\u2062 set for an aerial tour on his way\u2062 to Live Oak for an afternoon \u200bbriefing on response\u2062 and recovery efforts and a meeting with federal and local officials \u2063and first responders. \u2063He then plans to see \u200bfirsthand the storm&#8217;s effect \u2064on the community and will make remarks afterward.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden plans to visit the\u2063 state before flying \u2062to his home state of Delaware for the weekend. He \u200cregularly visits states that have \u2063been affected \u200bby natural disasters, including Florida\u200b in October 2022, when he met with Mr. DeSantis \u200cand surveyed areas\u200c damaged by Hurricane\u200b Ian.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>President Joe Biden and \u2064Florida Governor Ron DeSantis meet with local residents impacted by Hurricane Ian at Fishermans Pass \u200bin Fort Myers, \u200cFla., on Oct. 5, 2022.\u200b (Olivier Douliery\/AFP via Getty\u200c Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Recovery Efforts<\/h2>\n<p>Idalia made landfall on\u2064 Aug. 30\u200d along\u2062 Florida\u2019s sparsely populated\u200b Big Bend region as a \u2063Category 3 Hurricane, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1-dead-dozens-rescued-after-torrential-flooding-shuts-down-northeast\/\" title=\"1 Fatality, Many Saved After Heavy Flooding Halts Northeast\">causing widespread flooding<\/a> and damage before moving north to drench Georgia and the Carolinas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-wont-meet-with-biden-during-florida-trip-to-survey-hurricane-damage\/\" title=\"DeSantis declines meeting Biden on Florida trip to assess hurricane aftermath.\">major storm left \u2064hundreds<\/a> of thousands of \u2064Floridians without \u2062power, but\u2063 Mr. DeSantis\u200c described \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/floridas-recovery-underway-with-most-power-restored-schools-open-and-distribution-centers-catering-for-basics\/\" title=\"Florida's recovery is progressing well with power restored, schools open, and distribution centers providing essential supplies.\">rapid progress recovery teams<\/a> have \u2063made\u200d throughout the region to make sure residents have power, food, water, shelter and \u2063can send \u2064their kids\u2064 back to school.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. DeSantis addressed members of the \u2063p<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, the focus needs to be on helping those affected by the hurricane and not on political meetings,&#8221; the spokesperson stated. 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