Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the Biden administration and the mainstream media over the weekend for largely ignoring the tragic fire that burned a historic Hawaiian town to the ground.

DeSantis made the remarks during a press conference on Sunday while talking about his state’s recovery efforts from Hurricane Idalia.

“Do you trust the federal government to help, seeing what happened in Hawaii just a few weeks ago and in East Palestine a few months ago?” a reporter asked at the press conference in Yankeetown, Florida.

DeSantis responded, “I think that Maui is a total catastrophe, what happened there. And I don’t think we have all the answers to that. I think we should have all the answers to that. It’s interesting how incurious our corporate media is about what happened in Maui. I mean, I don’t see them interviewing parents who can’t find their kids and people we know, there’s a lot of people missing. So that was a total disaster, really, really heartbreaking to hear some of the stories, even though they’re not being publicized.”

The governor said that the situation in Maui and the Hurricane in Florida were different in large part because Florida, especially under his administration, extensively prepares for these types of events ahead of time.

“And really what the federal government’s role is, is just turning on programs that Congress has enacted over many, many years,” he said. “And so it’s basically serving as a checkbook to get people reimbursed for debris cleanup, to give people individual assistance. And so in that sense, I think that 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 that things in Florida are so fine-tuned that the local governments in some respects play an even more important role than the state government when it comes to warning residents that their homes may be in the path of an incoming storm surge.

“And so you had that, you had the state managing and assisting and that’s really the bread and butter,” he said. “The checkbook from the feds is great and we’re going to – 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.”

“We’re going to do that as Floridians, as people in the counties and municipalities and of course at the state level,” he concluded.

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Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said over the weekend that it was time for some of the Republican presidential candidates to drop out of the race.

Hogan, a Republican who opposes former President Donald Trump, made the remarks during an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday with guest host Robert Costa while discussing the shape of the 2024 presidential race.

“Look, I think there’s too many people in the field,” Hogan said. “You should not be in the race if you’re — if you don’t make the debate stage, you likely should consider getting out. If you’re on the debate stage, and you’re willing to stand up and challenge the leader that’s at 50 percent — if you’re unwilling to challenge Donald Trump, you should get off the stage.”

“If you’re in there running for vice president, or you’re trying to be a Cabinet secretary, or you’re trying to become famous, or write a book, or get on television, you should get the heck out of the race,” he added.

Hogan effectively said that it was time for people like former Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) to drop out of the race because “he’s not going to be president.”

Hogan said that other Republicans and conservative leaders were likely going to start trying to pressure some of the lower polling candidates to “put aside their own egos and their own goals to just make sure we do the right thing for the country and the party.”

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez became the first Republican candidate to drop out of the presidential race late last month after he failed to qualify for the first primary debate.

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