Lashing out

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, 5:15 a.m.

The Florida Department of Health reports 95 more COVID-19 fatalities, only the second time this year the daily death toll has been under 100.

Also, on today’s Sunrise:

— Gov. Ron DeSantis lashes out at President Joe Biden again, saying he’ll fight any effort by the White House to impose limits on travel to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But can you recall when DeSantis wanted Donald Trump to ban New Yorkers from flying to Florida? Like Pepperidge Farm, Sunrise remembers.

— The Governor said that last March. Trump never did impose limits, so DeSantis set up checkpoints on interstates and sent National Guard soldiers to airports to screen new arrivals from New York. And now he says travel limits are a bad idea.

— DeSantis says Florida’s election last year was an example for the rest of the nation on how to do it right. So, the first thing he wants to do now is to change it.

— Most changes will affect the voting by mail process — preferred by Democrats. They say this is another example of the voter suppression nonsense the GOP has employed for years.

— Same-sex marriage has been legal in Florida since 2015 when the Supreme Court threw out all state bans and declared marriage equality as law of the land. But Florida law still includes a ban on same-sex marriage passed in 1977; there’s a bill to repeal it.

— And finally, a Florida Woman drank Tennessee Fire straight from the bottle while recording a video threatening to shoot any FBI agents who showed up at her door — and posting it on social media.