On Monday, a day in which Florida again registered more than 10,000 new Covid cases, Gov. DeSantis was interrupted by protesters who crashed the press briefing in Orlando. They screamed “shame on you” as police escorted them out
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On Monday, a day in which Florida again registered more than 10,000 new Covid-19 cases, DeSantis was interrupted by protesters who crashed the press briefing in Orlando. They screamed “shame on you” as police escorted them out, according toDeSantis, speaking over the disruption, said the state would not “defund the police.” Police budgets have become a rallying cry for protests across the country in recent months, but they weren't the focus of the hecklers on Monday.
Like other recent coronavirus briefings, the theme of the day was drowned out by the day's events, which repeatedly have sidelined the governor's attempted pandemic narrative and painted him as losing his grip on the situation.“It’s not that he does not care, it’s that he seems to have a hard time showing people that he does. He truly cares about policy, the data, and donning what he believes is right for Floridians, but that doesn’t always get conveyed,” said one Republican legislator.
“You are an embarrassment,” Kennedy shouted. “We are getting record-breaking cases every day and you are doing nothing.”
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