Joy Reid gloats Ron DeSantis going ‘hat in hand’ to Biden for aid

Pleasure Reid mentioned on her MSNBC present on Thursday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis needed to go "hat in hand" to his rival, President Joe Biden, for hurricane support.
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MSNBC host Pleasure Reid appeared to brag that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has to request federal support from his political rival, President Joe Biden, so as to assist his state recuperate from the catastrophic results of Hurricane Ian.

On Thursday’s episode of her nightly information speak present “The ReidOut,” Reid famous that the Republican DeSantis, who has been talked about as a potential presidential candidate for 2024, should now “go hat in hand to Joe Biden for support.”

“It’s one thing he didn’t even consider in as a tea partier,” Reid mentioned. Her feedback have been transcribed by the information web site Mediaite.

Within the phase, Reid aired a reside information convention by which DeSantis was giving updates on his administration’s efforts to coordinate search and rescue missions within the hurricane-ravaged state, which dumped document quantities of rain and induced huge flooding and storm surge.

Reid reduce away from the DeSantis briefing and started to investigate what political profit the GOP governor might derive from his media appearances in the course of the emergency.

She mentioned that DeSantis was the beneficiary of “earned media” which is “much more useful” than “paid media the place you buy an advert.”

Reid mentioned on her present that DeSantis was the beneficiary of “unpaid” media protection in the course of the hurricane.

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“It’s when you will get unpaid media,” Reid mentioned.

“It’s when you will get the media to concentrate to you, and to observe you doing one thing that’s solely constructive, the place there’s no damaging spin hooked up to it, the place you don’t should pay for it, it’s not an advert.”

Reid mentioned that DeSantis “understands” that the media protection he's receiving in the course of the hurricane is “very useful to him.”

Biden has pledged federal support to the Sunshine State, which has been ravaged by Hurricane Ian.

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Reid’s visitor, former GOP congressman David Jolly, mentioned: “He's now a Republican governor who wants one individual to assist him. It’s Joe Biden.”

To which Reid responded: “Now, as you mentioned, he’s now gotta go hat in hand to Joe Biden for support,” Reid mentioned. “It’s one thing he didn’t even consider in as a tea partier.”

Ian made landfall on Wednesday alongside the southwestern coast of Florida, inflicting huge devastation.

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Reid has raised eyebrows for her commentary in the course of the hurricane. On Tuesday, she in contrast Floridians fleeing the state in the hunt for shelter to asylum-seeking migrants crossing the border.

DeSantis not too long ago organized to move migrants who crossed the border into Texas to the deep-blue enclave of Martha’s Winery.

“It’s a bit ironic now that you just might need Floridians having to pour over the borders and go north and get out of the state of Florida in the very same disaster we now have been speaking about on a trolling stage in that state for a very long time,” Reid mentioned.

The remark by Reid prompted accusations that she was searching for to politicize a humanitarian catastrophe.