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https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/10/desantis-tells-media-point-blank- newsom-wouldve-been-nailed-to-the-wall-over-wildfires-if-he-was-
republican/

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican,
accused reporters Thursday evening of going easy on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, over his handling of wildfires in the Los Angeles
area.

The area around Los Angeles has been hit with multiple wildfires that
rapidly spread through Pasadena and other localities, destroying hundreds
of buildings and leaving at least five people dead, prompting criticism of Newsom from President-elect Donald Trump. When reporters asked DeSantis
about whether Trump’s comments were appropriate, DeSantis hit back at them
over their coverage.

“Is it appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division
and to try create narratives anytime these things happen? Now, you’re not
as interested in doing that because Newsom is a D,” DeSantis said. “If
Newsom was a Republican, you guys would go try to—you would have him
nailed to the wall for what they are doing over there. I know, we’ve dealt
with it. We just assume in Florida, anytime something happens, it’s going
to be politicized by the media. So you guys sitting in judgment of Donald Trump, I mean, excuse me, I think your track record of politicizing these things is very, very bad.”

Trump previously clashed with Newsom over preparations for wildfires,
arguing the California governor and potential 2028 candidate for president prioritized protecting the delta smelt, a small, three-inch fish, over
allowing water to be used by cities and farmers. DeSantis reminded
reporters that The Washington Post tried to blame him over the 2021
collapse of Surfside Towers.

“What I’m telling you is you guys are trying to make an issue of it when I
have watched from this seat—in fact, when I got elected governor, I was
meeting with some other Republican governors and what they would say is,
‘Hey, if you have a natural disaster, just know media is coming at you,
they’re going to do it,’” DeSantis said. “It’s not the same. That mayor of L.A., if that were a Republican mayor, I can only imagine what that would
do. I mean, you know fires are a high risk and you try to go to Africa or wherever she was, to go on some type of voyage? You should have been there preparing and doing that. And yet I don’t see a lot of heat being directed
in that thing.”

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, was in Ghana as part of a
delegation attending the inauguration of that country’s president when the wildfires broke out.

“So, you know, I just—I would like to see some balance on how this is
done,” DeSantis said. “You criticize the president-elect, but I think you
also have to hold these other people accountable, and I’ve not seen that.”

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation


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