Our hearts go out to everybody who’s been affected by this,” DeSantis said. “We’re happy to have been supportive of the rescue efforts.”

Moving back into 2024, DeSantis also rejected on Thursday the idea that people can “control the weather,” saying “he would do 78 and sunny year round” before saying that “precedent throughout history,” rather than human activity like carbon emissions, determines storm activity.

The Florida governor denied that he has been refusing to take calls from the vice president to discuss the hurricane response.