Democrats look for an excuse to blame Ron DeSantis for Hurricane Ian as the fallout from

the natural disaster continues. Vladimir Putin annexes parts of Ukraine, upping the chances of nuclear war,

and Joe Biden goes wandering again. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

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destroyed complicating rescue efforts. The causeway to Sanibel Island, a 12-mile barrier island,

was rendered impassable cutting off the island from the mainland. President Biden and

First Lady, Jola Biden, are planning to travel to Puerto Rico on Monday and Florida on Wednesday

to survey the hurricane damage guns. My least favorite things in American politics is when

people from the White House feel the necessity to jet set to disaster areas to gaze out across the wreckage and be like, ah, well, now that I'm here, I guess everything is okay. Again, I hated it when it was Bush. I didn't like it with Obama. I like it with Trump. It's just a consistent bugaboo of my own. I really don't like it. when we act as though the president has godlike powers to quell the rising waters.

It's not the way any of this works.

According to the Florida Medical Examiner's Commission, they said the hurricane had caused at least 58 deaths in the state. Most of them from drowning, that tallied did not include Charlotte County, or local officials have also confirmed multiple deaths. As I said, many of the victims were older than age 60. bodies were found inside inside flooded cars, floating in water, and on the beach. There are four storm-related deaths in North

Carolina as well. Now, naturally, because this is the United States, everything turns political

pretty quickly. Ron DeSantis, by all available metrics, has been doing a pretty good job of

handling all of this. He announced that all the ports in Florida would be open by Saturday.

The ports, Tampa Bay, Miami Everglades, they are reopened for fueling. And I think between

today and tomorrow, all the ports in the state of Florida up and down the both coasts will be

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