CNN contributor Adam Kinzinger said Friday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that it was “outrageous” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) does not plan to join President Joe Biden when the president tours Hurricane Idalia’s devastation.
Host John Berman said, “I want to shift gears to what we started this block on, which was this confusion over whether President Biden will meet with Governor Ron DeSantis when Biden goes down to Florida to view the hurricane damage tomorrow. Do you think the DeSantis team is worried about the logistics of it, as they said in a statement, or is it more about the optics?”
Kinzinger said, “There’s a 1 to 2% chance it’s logistics. There’s a 98 to 99% chance it’s the optics. Look, politics has become, from even ten years ago when there were moments you could put politics aside and do what you were actually elected to do, which is lead, help, all that kind of stuff. It has now infected everything.”
He continued, “Ron DeSantis, at…