The Florida governor’s refusal to meet with his Democratic rival for the White House came as a surprise to the president’s team.
is traveling to Florida on Saturday to tour the state in the wake of Hurricane Idalia, a Category 3 storm that pummeled parts of Florida's west coast last week. But he won’t be meeting with the state’s governor and 2024 White House hopeful,The GOP presidential hopeful told Biden over the phone on Friday that “it would be very disruptive to have the whole security apparatus” that accompanies the president “because there are only so many ways to get into” many of the hardest hit areas.
DeSantis’s comments came just hours after Biden said he planned to meet with the governor. An anonymous White House officialPolitico that DeSantis “did not express concerns” on Thursday when the president informed him of his impending visit. That day, Biden joked that he’d communicated so much with the Florida governor over the hurricane that “there should be a direct dial” between the two of them.
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