Analysis: It’s an unlikely alliance, born out of disaster. Just a few weeks ago, US President Joe Biden and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were trading blows over immigration policy. Now, everything's changed | FarrahTomazin
to antagonise Biden over the crisis at the US-Mexico border.
And no longer is Biden branding DeSantis as one of the “extremist” Republicans who are threatening democracy, or using Florida’s abortion restrictions as leverage ahead of the US midterm elections in November.All of this could change, of course, but when Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida and obliterated much of the state, it marked the start of a ceasefire between two men who could potentially be battling one another for the presidency in two years.
His period of leave was not formally announced and his office had told journalists, when asked, that he was not in Hawaii.Credit:
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