Trump gets RUDE AWAKENING as Florida TURNS AGAINST HIM

People in Florida are just absolutely. pissed at what the Trump regime is. doing. From taking away their health. care to uh people are seeing their. property insurance absolutely spike, people in Florida obviously see Donald. Trump gutting FEMA. And while this. hurricane season thus far we've uh been. okay fortunately thanks to no massive. storm yet we all know that what could. happen uh very soon uh based on how. unprepared the federal government is.

People also know how expensive things. are of course in Florida and across uh. the country. And then you have in. Florida as well, uh, kind of dangerous. MAGA policies there, uh, anti-science, antivax, um, and really taking away choice from. family and parents under the guise of. choice, taking away choice and imposing. authoritarian, uh, doctrines. I mean, I. I just saw this report uh about uh how.

not only are people in Florida. struggling to pay groceries, but the. organizations that would then come in to. fill in to help people who can't afford. groceries can't afford groceries. The. organizations here, just take a watch of. this. Insecurity crisis is growing as. many South Florida families are finding. it more and more difficult to put food. on the table with higher grocery prices. Now, the organizations that help people. in need are finding they need help. themselves. CBS News Miami Ted Scoutton.

joins us live from the Feeding South. Florida warehouse that's in Pembro Park. and said, "What's causing this?". >> Well, Elliot, Feeding South Florida. tells us that about a million people in. South Florida, so from Palm Beach down. to the Keys have no idea where their. next meal is coming from. But when you. look at the shelves here in the. warehouse, it may be a little bit. misleading. It looks like there's plenty. of food to go around, but actually in. some key areas, donations are way down. We visited a food pantry in Key West. More people are joining the line for. food at the SOS food pantry in Key West.

Folks needing help putting food on the. table. >> Had you ever needed food assistance. before? >> No. >> So, this is the first time you've needed. food assistance. >> At South Florida, of course, people. feeling the same thing in Central. Florida. Um, you go to also uh. congressional districtif like like. congressional district 15 which is from. Lakeland to kind of northern Tampa area. You know, you you're seeing the same. thing. Uh f focus on that one for a. second. Uh Florida's congressional. district 15 which is represented by a.

MAGA Republican Congresswoman Laurel. Lee. She's kind of hiding out right now. and not doing a lot of press because I. think she knows how deeply unpopular. MAGA policies are and she's hoping that. if she doesn't do town halls or show. herself in public that uh she can avoid. some of the uh some of these issues. But. I went back and I looked at her from. October 11th, 2024 when she was asked if. she thought that FEMA was doing an. effective job in Florida. She said yes.

Okay. Well, then why' you why why are. you agreeing to just cut FEMA and. destroy it? This is what you said. October 2024, October 11th, 2024. Let's. play it. >> Do you think that FEMA right now today. is doing an effective job in Florida? >> So, from a logistics and response. perspective, yes. So, one thing about. living in Florida is unfortunately we. are very accustomed to dealing with. severe weather. So, our emergency. operations personnel, our folks who work.

round the clock, year round on making. sure that we're prepared for disasters, know how to collaborate with FEMA. They. know what what assets we needed staged. here to do an effective response. Governor Dantis uh works very closely. with FEMA. I know I have heard from the. White House every day in the leadup and. since the storm. So I think in that. sense in the assets on the ground and. response perspective so far it's been. very good. Of course we're going to. continue to watch that and make sure. that it stays that way. With respect to.

funding uh there is enough funding to be. responding to the immediate need. Uh but. I know I stand ready absolutely so do my. colleagues in Florida to go back to. Washington DC uh the minute that it is. needed. if they do need more funding, uh. we we are absolutely ready to do that to. make sure that we can continue not just. here in Florida, but also the people in. North Carolina who are still suffering. We need to make sure that our federal. government is providing the disaster. response that's needed.

>> I just want you all to think about that. for a second. So, Republicans were. getting upset about a hypothetical. future where there may not be the. funding even though they were getting. all the funding. the response was. efficient and then they come into power. and then gut their own funding so that. they could now build things like. alligator Alcatraz and she was asked. about alligator Alcatraz back on July. 2025 and this is what Laura Lee said. then let's play it.

>> Okay, what about this alligator. Alcatraz? We covered it extensively when. the president was down there for the the. opening in the in the Everglades. Now. these reports surfacing allegedly where. conditions are being described as as. inhumane by some. What would you say. about that? Well, it's a detention center. So, the. purpose is for it to be secure, to be. orderly, to be safe, and to be humane. And Florida officials have ensured and. in fact have made very clear that they. intend to provide a facility that is all. of those things uh that is safe for the.

people who are held there, that provides. them uh appropriate nutritious food, medical care, access to attorneys, all. of the things that they might need while. they're in this facility. Uh that being. said, that's what it is. It is a. detention facility. So relative to it, >> because we heard the word deterrent used. all the time, is it being created in a. in a manner that's almost uh purposely. uh to use the words in this in some of. these reports, inhumane just to deter. people, so people see these kind of. reports, well, you know what? I don't. want to end up there. Is that being done.

on purpose? >> Well, there is a big difference between. keeping a place that is secure, uh that. is orderly, and a place that is. inhumane. I. >> you see how the tone changes pretty damn. quickly. I want to bring in uh Darren. McCauley, Colonel Darren McCauley, Dr. Darren McCauley, who's running for. Congress in Florida's 15th Congressional. District. Colonel McCaulay is an Air. Force veteran. He is a physician. He is.

a professor and he is running against. the lady you saw there, Congresswoman. Laurel Lee. Let's talk about what's. going on in your district. How are. people feeling in Florida's 15th right. now where they're building uh. concentration? Well, they're building. Florida the money's going taxpayer. money's going to build these detention. center camps and things like that. What's going on there? >> Uh unfortunately, folks in Florida 15. have been crushed by um economic burdens. including the homeowners crisis,

homeowners insurance, uh and various. other types of insurance, rising utility. bills. Uh and then at the same time we. see our federal government uh turning. its back on us and cutting off support. for things that are desperately needed. Uh you mentioned earlier cutting FEMA. Uh this disaster taxes, which is. basically what any cut to FEMA is, means. that our state government has been. complicit in the federal government uh. hampering us and cutting off funds that. we would need in order to prepare for a. storm or clean up after a storm and.

passing that cost on to us. uh our. insurance rates are going to go up and. go even higher as we have to uh prepare. for medical costs, for building costs, and to get ready uh before a storm and. to deal with the aftermath of a storm. And when we're already faced with two to. three times the national average in. terms of homeowners insurance, car. insurance, and really any type of. insurance, health insurance, dental. insurance that is crushing Central. Florida families. Uh when I speak to.

folks in the district, they are very. clear that uh they don't think that. Alligator Alcatraz is in line with their. values. It's not uh how we want to be. represented as a state. We don't want to. be the shining example for taking. people's freedoms away. Uh we would like. to be the shining example for uh helping. our communities and helping our. neighbors to be able to achieve a real. cost of living. >> I don't even understand what Laurel Lee. does and people like that. Like I'm not. other than whatever Trump says, you.

know, you know, you do, you do. And that. means you have to shift your positions. One day you're for this, one day you. maybe for that, one day you're for this. But there's nothing that I've seen from. her that says this is what people in the. 15th want right now. This is what their. needs are. Let's focus on that. It just. seems like it's all of these Trumpy kind. of culture war issues and whatever's. going on in Club Rose Garden or whatever. Trump's posting about Hotel Chipriani or.

whatever steak he's bragging about. eating versus like the actual needs of. people in the district. She is not. representing the needs of people in the. district, but instead is really. pandering to corporate interests and. special interests. Uh I mentioned the. insurance costs. Uh Laura Lee has taken. hundreds of thousands of dollars from. insurance companies and their lobbyists. As a former lobbyist, she really knows. how to uh um work within that sphere and. make this corporate money uh make.

special interest her priority. Uh here. in Tampa Bay, we had Florida Power and. Light, which is one of the main utility. companies, has a de facto monopoly on. utilities, recently uh roll out the. highest rate hike in history, whereby. when they're finished, folks in Tampa. are going to be paying the highest rates. for utilities in the nation. So, we're. going to be paying more for utilities, not because of usage, but because of the. highest rates. Uh similarly, you see. this through line where Congresswoman. Lee uh instead of standing up for the.

community and saying, "Hey, this is. hundreds of dollars that are coming out. of the pockets of my constituents uh. every month. Is there something that we. can do to mitigate this?" is quiet as a. church mouse. And then public records. are very clear that she's taken hundreds. of thousands of dollars from FPL as. well. So, she is not serving the. citizens of Central Florida, but is. instead serving herself in her own. campaign. I am running in direct. contrast to that uh as a 25-y year Air. Force veteran, currently the state air.

surgeon for Florida, the highest ranking. physician in the Air National Guard in. Florida to bring the Air Force core. value of service before self to DC. And. I am running to unseat Congresswoman Lee. who has been self-s serving ever since. she got to Washington. >> Yeah. Tell us a little bit more about. your background. You you gave us some. information there, but why did you. decide to run? you you you don't you. didn't seem that you were really a. political guy, you know, before this. based on your background. So, explain to.

us that journey and why why did you. decide to run? >> Well, I was a VA physician for 10 years. uh working at the VA. I'm a pain. management physician by training. I. received a tremendous personal. satisfaction and professional. satisfaction taking care of my patients. uh helping them to alleviate their. suffering with advice, medication, and. sometimes even injections. uh seeing the. cuts to the VA uh the the dismantling of. our organization, the terror and the. bullying of VA employees, people that.

I'd worked with for years. Now, the VA, like every other organization, uh has. its warts and has things that we can. improve to be more efficient. But to. villainize um patriots who go to work. every day in order to uh take care of. those who have taken care of us and. fulfill America's promise to our. veterans was completely uncalled for. seeing the effects that uh firing people. at the VA, allowing early retirements. had on my patients themselves, watching.

their new patient visits go from uh a. month-long wait to 10 week wait, seeing. uh folks unable to get disability exams, the privatization of that process where. it was incentivized so that folks would. no longer get their VA disability. Um, I. watched that happen in real time to my. patients, my co-workers, and I realized. that this was happening all over the. federal government. I just had a front. row seat to what was happening in the. VA. And uh, it pushed me into a position. where I said, "Somebody's got to do.

something about this." Uh, because what. they're doing to the federal government. is going to take uh, decades to unravel. and try to put back together. Uh, I'm a. proud father of three. Uh, I have a. nine-year-old and five-year-old twins. uh and I see in our country uh folks in. power who are not currently displaying. the values and setting an example that I. personally would like to hand off to my. children. So watching what was happening. uh at the VA and then seeing how uh the. effects of that were, you know, rippling.

throughout my community and our. district, we have 50,000 veterans. So, if you start to dismantle VA healthcare, you start to take away uh VA benefits, that affects many of my neighbors, people that I work with, people that um. live next door to me, uh and I wanted to. do something about it. Also, having had. the the storms come to Tampa Bay last. year, myself and every other Air. National Guardsmen were out trying to. help our community. Uh I personally lost. my home. Uh we had uh over a foot of.

water in my home and spent eight months. arguing with insurance companies about. whether or not they were going to help. us to repair the damage, whether or not. the flood in my home was caused by flood. waters from the sea or caused by uh. rainwater flooding in from a hole in the. roof. And they were basically able to. wait us out so that many of my neighbors. had to sell their houses uh just for the. price of land. the insurance companies. were taking advantage of Central. Flidians uh where we had a contract with. them. We paid our premiums and we.

expected that we would have some safety. and security should disaster strike. But. when disaster actually struck, they. turned our backs on us. Now, as a. physician, I was fortunate enough to be. able to mount a financial response, go. into my savings, work extra hours, uh. and rebuild my home. But many of my. neighbors on fixed incomes were not. willing uh or not able to do that. and. insurance companies were not willing to. help them. So, seeing that happen real. time, uh, seeing it happen to my family,

seeing it happen to my neighbors and my. community, and at the same time, uh, watching what was happening to the. federal government at work, uh, I. decided that I wanted to try to throw my. hat in the ring, and instead of after 25. years of military service, directing my. efforts towards helping America achieve. her interests abroad, uh, really helping. America achieve her interests here at. home. Darren McCauley. Colonel McCauley. Where. can people find more about the campaign? >> Uh, at darren forf Florida.com. D A Ren. F O R Florida Florida.com.

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