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DeSantis hammers climate change alarmists in no uncertain terms in Idalia’s aftermath

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GOP presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hammered climate change alarmists in no uncertain terms during Hurricane Idalia’s aftermath.

DeSantis cited an 1896 storm that reportedly had 125 mph winds and Florida’s Labor Day hurricane in 1935, saying during a Sunday press conference that those storms resulted in massive destruction and deaths.

‘So, I think the notion that somehow hurricanes are something new, that’s just false. And we’ve got to stop politicizing the weather and stop politicizing natural disasters,’ DeSantis said. ‘We know from history there’s been times when it’s very busy in Florida, late ‘40s, early ‘50s, you had a lot of hits of significant hurricanes.’

‘So, I think sometimes people need to take a breath and get a little bit of perspective here,’ he said. ‘But the notion that somehow if we just adopt, you know, very left-wing policies at the federal level that somehow we will not have hurricanes, that is a lie. And that is people trying to take what happened with different types of storms and use that as a pretext to advance their agenda on the backs of people that are suffering. And that’s wrong, and we’re not going to do that in the state of Florida.’

DeSantis declined to meet with President Biden during his trip to Florida in the hurricane’s aftermath. Idalia made landfall early Wednesday morning along Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm, causing widespread flooding and damage before moving north to drench Georgia and the Carolinas.

Earlier in the same press conference in Yankeetown, Florida, a reporter asked DeSantis if he trusted the federal government to help given what happened in Hawaii and East Palestine, Ohio.

‘I think that the state of Florida, we prepare for this stuff. We were prepared. We responded,’ he said. ‘And really what the federal government’s role is just turning on programs Congress has enacted over many, many years. So, it’s basically serving as a checkbook to get people reimbursed for debris clean up, to give people individual assistance. And so, in that sense, I think that has been turned on, I anticipate that that will go smoothly, but most of the nuts and bolts is done by our local communities and by the state of Florida. And that’s really how it should be. Disaster response is really bottom up.’

DeSantis said most people heeded local warnings of dangerous storm surge and chose to evacuate, noting there’s been no coastal fatalities reported.

The governor said there was one traffic fatality in Alachua County, Florida, related to the storm that has been confirmed so far. Categorizing local and state officials working together as the ‘bread and butter’ of hurricane response, DeSantis said ‘the checkbook from the feds is great, and whatever resources are available as the governor, I’m going to pull those levers to be able to help Floridians, but we’re certainly not relying on the federal government to do the day-to-day heavy lifting.’

Biden faced staunch criticism over his response to the Maui wildfires that obliterated the seaside tourist town of Lahaina last month.

The number of people listed as missing from the fires stood at 385 on Friday, according to state officials.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

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