Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has President Joe Biden’s personal phone number, the president told reporters Tuesday as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida’s west coast.
Biden’s statement undercut Vice President Kamala Harris’s apparent attempt to appear presidential to voters.
On Tuesday, an unnamed aide to DeSantis told the establishment media that the governor refused to take a call from Harris about the storm, allegedly because the governor believed the vice president was only calling for political reasons. However, DeSantis denied Harris had called him at all.
NBC News reported De Santis’s denial. “I didn’t know that she had called. I’m not sure who they called. They didn’t call me. Their characterization of it was something that they did. It wasn’t anything that anybody in my office did, in terms of saying it was political,” he told reporters Monday at a press conference.
Harris, without evidence, then slammed DeSantis for playing political games.
“This is all intentional by Biden and his camp (namely Jill),” Fox News commentator Joe Concha posted on X. “You think this guy is going to just allow Kamala and his party just sweep him aside completely? He played along at first, but now he’s pissed.”
Rumors are swirling around Washington that First Lady Jill Biden and Harris have a poor relationship, and unsubstantiated reports indicate Jill Biden is actively trying to sabotage Harris’s campaign with Joe Biden as the unwitting attack dog.
