Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez has said that Vice President Kamala Harris, with her claims that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has refused her calls as Hurricane Milton approaches, is “the only one that’s playing political games,” Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez told Newsmax Tuesday.
“It’s a shame,” the Republican official said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “When the governor has been working around the clock for close to two weeks now, dealing with Hurricane Helene and now dealing with the preparation for Hurricane Milton, I mean, shame on her, truly, for even so much as insinuating that the governor is playing politics with Floridians lives.”
A source close to the governor said he refused to take a call from Harris to discuss hurricane response as the state recovers from Helene and braces to face Milton, ABC News reported Monday. The governor, however, said he was not aware that she had called him.
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