Ron DeSantis attacked Kamala Harris during an interview Monday night, calling her “delusional” amid reports that the Florida governor refused to take the VP’s calls to discuss hurricane relief.

Asked earlier in the day about a report that, as a DeSantis aide described, “Kamala was trying to reach out, and [the DeSantis team] didn’t answer,” the vice president told reporters, “People are in desperate need of support right now, and playing political games at this moment, in these crisis situations—these are the height of emergency situations—it’s utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish, and it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first.”

During an appearance on The View on Tuesday, Harris said it was a “shame” she hadn’t been able to speak to DeSantis, and that she will continue to call him when she is president.


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    4 roles:

    1. Certify the presidential election
    2. Succeed the President
    3. Break ties in the Senate
    4. Be head of the President’s cabinet

    They have no other job than that unless the President assigns them something to do.

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      Which is funny because Republicans have been treating her like she’s in charge of policy and has all this power as VP.

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          The politicians making the accusations know exactly how it works. They’re banking on the fact that the idiots who vote for them don’t.

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      Head of the President’s cabinet sounds like it could have potentially wide responsibilities.

      Either way, I guess it’s what the president assigned her to do, or what influence she has on him, his cabinet, etc?

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      #4 seems like an iceberg. Tiny name but could mean a shit ton of different things couldn’t it?

      “Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs”

      So she has to head that group… Yikes.