Sen. Rick Scott declines to defend DeSantis during Fox News interview on Publix controversy
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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., declined to defend Gov. Ron DeSantis on Fox News Radio's 'Brian Kilmeade Show', amid a firestorm over the veracity of a '60 Minutes' segment painting the governor as closing a vaccination deal with Publix Supermarkets thanks in part to a $100,000 political donation
West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James, a Democrat who runs the county's largest city, however took the opposite tact, alleging "there were no rules" in DeSantis' vaccine rollout and that "those who had the fiscal resources were going to use them in whatever way they could to get this vaccine." DeSantis claimed "60 Minutes" deceptively edited his remarks about Florida's coronavirus vaccine program, which Kerner had said was effective in his South Florida locale which is home to a large senior citizen population and where Publix is a ubiquity. Kilmeade asked Scott about the firestorm, remarking that the long-running CBS newsmagazine hasn't covered potentially more egregious COVID-related controversies involving Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and Gavin Newsom of California.More Related News