The Perfect Storm Battering Ron DeSantis in Florida

“We’re in a disaster and this governor is elevating cash off of anti-Fauci merch and going to different states to do fundraisers,” Florida Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried says of Ron DeSantis.

Sure, COVID-19 instances and hospitalizations are reaching all-time highs in Florida, and its chief is hawking koozies and pretending every little thing’s hunky dory.

“I don’t actually perceive what’s occurring each single time that he opens his mouth,” Fried, who’s working towards DeSantis, tells Molly Jong-Quick on the most recent episode of The New Irregular. “I simply am extra flabbergasted about what comes out of it. , yesterday he was blaming immigrants for our COVID instances and for our hospitalizations… and yelling on the president.”

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Don’t anticipate DeSantis to simply accept any blame for the state of affairs, Fried tells Molly—as a substitute, he’ll be defunding college districts that attempt to enact a masks mandate to maintain their college students secure.

Then there’s the lingering fallout over the lethal Surfside apartment collapse and fears over different buildings that could possibly be crumbling, plus a devastating purple tide that’s hitting the state’s economic system simply as DeSantis is arguing with the cruise business about vaccines.

The governor went to the areas hit by the purple tide and introduced that it wasn’t that unhealthy. Fried lays out why it is that unhealthy for the native economic system.

“So useless fish are usually not good for tourism is what you’re saying,” Molly quips.

Additionally within the episode, Ian Dunt—editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk, host of the Oh God, What Now? podcast, writer of Methods to Be a Liberal—talks about Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 fiasco in Britain, the place he hosted a reopening celebration simply because the Delta variant spiked. Dunt goes deep on the Tory authorities’s creeping authoritarianism and the U.Okay.’s new Fox Information-on-the-cheap, GB Information.

Lastly, Molly and co-host Jesse Cannon are joined by veteran New York Democratic guru Hank Sheinkopf, who explains why there’ll be much more chaos if Gov. Andrew Cuomo is faraway from workplace over his harassment allegations—and whether or not AG Tish James can succeed him as governor.

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