Biden cancels Florida DNC appearance with Ron DeSantis’ rival Charlie Crist over Tropical Storm Ian

President Joe Biden’s DNC appearance in Florida on September 27 was postponed, the White House announced late on Saturday

President Joe Biden is pushing off his Florida visit to campaign with Democrat midterm candidates there as Tropical Storm Ian barrels toward the Sunshine State.

Biden was due to appear in Orlando for a Democratic National Committee rally on September 27. 

The White House announced on Saturday night that the trip would be postponed due to the incoming tropical storm.

It’s expected to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday – and could be Florida’s first major hurricane in four years.

The president was expected to call out Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on his home turf in an appearance alongside his challenger, Democratic House Rep. Charlie Crist.

Crist, a former Republican who was governor from 2007-2011, is leaving the House of Representatives this year as he seeks a return to Tallahassee.

Polls show DeSantis with just a single-digit lead over Crist with less than two months until the midterms, as Florida tests out a new Congressional map largely drawn to favor GOP candidates. 

The White House did not say when Biden would be rescheduling for.

It’s not clear yet if the DNC is calling off the entire Tuesday event or if it will go on without the president. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to both the White House and DNC for comment.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis enjoyed a meteoric rise in his national profile with his vocal criticism of the Biden administration and culture war-influenced policies

He’s locked in a tight race with Democrat House Rep. Charlie Crist, who was previously governor of Florida as a Republican from 2007 to 2011

Biden’s last planned trip to Florida was meant for July – but was called off when the president tested positive for COVID-19.

His most recent cancelation came an hour after Biden declared an emergency over the looming storm and activated federal disaster relief aid for Floridians.

Tropical Storm Ian is expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Sunday and could reach Category 4 by Tuesday.

DeSantis declared an emergency across the entire state on Saturday afternoon. 

As of 8am on Sunday morning, the storm was roughly 590 miles off of Cuba’s western tip. 

Though he hasn’t campaigned in the Sunshine State, Biden has not shied away from ripping its governor at public events elsewhere and holding him up as boogeyman to push Democrats to the polls.

The popular governor has seen a meteoric rise within the GOP for his vocal criticism of the Biden administration and culture war-influenced policies on education, LGBTQ issues and, now, the border crisis.

DeSantis outraged progressives and immigrants’ rights activists earlier this month when he sent a plane of undocumented migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border to the island of Martha’s Vineyard, a bastion of liberal wealth.

Local officials said they received no warning for the flights and it has been suggested by some migrants’ lawyers that they were sent there under false pretenses. 

Biden tore into DeSantis and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week, accusing them of using migrants as political pawns. Abbott has been sending buses of people to New York City and Washington, DC, where the Democrat mayors have declared the population influxes to be a crisis.

‘Instead of working with us on solutions, Republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props,’ Biden said at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala. ‘What they’re doing is simply wrong. It’s un-American. It’s reckless.’