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.”
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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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Isn’t it the VP’s job to be “Hand of the President” during emergencies?
Honestly, it’s kinda up to the president what the VP’s job is.
The only requirement is that they cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate.
And count the electoral votes
Ceremonially preside over the counting
Sue, did the President call?
…no
Near the end of that runner, Selena’s already out of earshot when Sue answers.
That show was not supposed to be a documentary.
4 roles:
They have no other job than that unless the President assigns them something to do.
Which is funny because Republicans have been treating her like she’s in charge of policy and has all this power as VP.
Yeah. They don’t understand how this works and listen to the sound bite.
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.
Sadly this is working.
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?
Exactly. So every VP is their own special VP.
#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.
What’s your point? She’s trying to contact the representative of the state to be able to get shit done and that representative is essentially telling her to fuck off. A general doesn’t order the corporals around, they go down the chain of command vaguely in order, and so the same thing happens in most any power structure even if the highest leader is fairly involved. And this isn’t a situation where you can just fire the problem and move on.
I don’t think explodicle was criticizing Harris, I think they were criticizing desantis for not picking up the phone and talking to the person he should be talking to
I’d sure love to figure out how they meant it, then. “Isn’t it your job to…” is used nearly exclusively in the english language to deflect blame and/or call someone out for trying to avoid doing their job.
I read explodicle’s comment as a reply to DeSantis who said “She has no role in this” in his rant.
That makes a lot of sense, I see it.
I see it both ways. He’s basically speaking at DeSantis saying that she is just doing her job while he is trying to make it political
I read it the same way you did at first too
The VP certainly is the second in command of the administration for any administration that has internal cooperation. Ms. Harris offering this aid is not Candidate Harris offering aid, but the Biden administration offering aid, or ideally, the executive branch of the United States offering aid.
Biden has shit going on at the moment and after the shitshow this summer has taken a less publicly visible role, and VP Harris has stepped up for such things. That’s not unheard of especially when confidence is shaken in a sitting president.
It’s common for the VP to make contact in natural disasters. Reason being that the President’s office must remain open to other events of higher priority.
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As in hand of the king, GoT reference. Probably.
As in real-life reference. Which started before game of thrones, and is actually what influenced some of game of thrones.