Pathetic GOP Rep Blames Measles Outbreaks On 'Open Borders'
Florida Representative Byron Daniels, who is hoping to be the state's next governor, made this pathetic claim while downplaying the role vaccine hesitancy is playing in the measles outbreaks across the country and in his home state.
Daniels made an appearance on this Thursday's Inside Politics on CNN and was asked by host Dana Bash about measles cases increasing across the country, particularly an outbreak in southwest Florida.
Byron did his best to pretend that the current Surgeon General of Florida, Joseph Ladapo, who Byron wants to keep on if he's elected, isn't a raging lunatic nut job who has no business being involved in public health in any way, shape or form, and defended the fact that he won't speak to the press, while lying that undocumented immigrants are somehow responsible for these outbreaks.
BASH: I also want to ask about a policy issue that's a very important one in Florida, and that's measles. Measles cases in America have increased over the past year, and the outbreak right now in southwest Florida is adding to that.
The State Department of Health has been quiet. There has been little public information about the state outbreak. In fact, CNN spent a month calling and emailing State Health Department officials and got no response.
Are you satisfied with how the state is handling the measles outbreak?