Gov. Mike Dunleavy was with the Trump transition team in Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s home in Florida. He was with a group in a press conference led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who told reporters that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom was a Republican, he would be “nailed to the wall” over that state’s response to wildfires.
Dunleavy was with a group of Republican governors invited by Trump to meet with him before he takes office on Jan. 20.
Dining with Trump on Thursday were 22 of the 27 Republican governors, who engaged with him in a discussion of how to drive forward the America First agenda. A few could not attend due to the massive snowstorm impacting their states.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte told reporters “It’s been a long period without cooperation from Washington, so, we’re looking forward to the new administration coming in. We have a lot of business to get done on behalf of our states. We’re just pleased to be here to meet with the president.”
On Wednesday, Trump held a meeting Republican senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, which included Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan. Sen. Lisa Murkowski did not attend that meeting.
Sullivan, however, was able to bring up Alaska issues with Trump during the meeting.
In the video above, Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters gathered outside, “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.”
“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.”
If this was “by invitation only” it stands to reason the “Princess” was not.
This should be a concern towards the natural reaction towards any Alaska need under consideration that will in the mind of Trump or his administration, reflect her bias toward him.
The full weight of persuasion on topics of state need dealing with the Fed.
Rest with Sullivan and NB3.
Sad status for Alaska.
Cheers-Johnson
DeSantis recently patched the nail marks in his suit after Hurricane Helene