NOT a Good Look for the sitting Vice President or the President to have Trump beat them on the ground post Helenen in area’s Harris NEEDS votes….
Course how many of these people will be recovered enough TO VOTE?..
Trump isn’t worried about his security ‘foot print’ taking from the recovery effort….
The President and Vice President ARE….
And Trump can’t actually DO anything except get some media attention…
Former President Trump is seeking to put Vice President Harris on the back foot as both candidates respond to the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene.
Trump visited Georgia on Monday, where he knocked the federal government’s response to the storm. His visit comes days after he criticized Harris and President Biden over the crisis. Harris, meanwhile, cut her planned West Coast trip short and will be briefed on the disaster at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters….
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The storm has major humanitarian impacts — and it also brings political complications in the closing weeks of the election cycle, with just more than a month to go until Election Day.
Georgia and North Carolina are both being looked at as critical toss-upsfor this year’s presidential race. The fast-tracked Harris bid has gained ground in the battlegrounds, and Trump is up by just a fraction of a percentage point in both states, according to the latest polling averagesfrom Decision Desk HQ/The Hill…
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Harris will look “presidential” with her FEMA visit, Haynes said, but she could benefit from the optics of making an eventual visit to one of the affected areas.
Harris intends to visit impacted communities “as soon as it is possible without disrupting emergency response operations,” a White House official said. Biden has also said he expects to visit North Carolina by Wednesday or Thursday this week, noting that if “there’s an entourage, it can be disruptive.”
Democrats have praised the Biden administration’s response, pointing out that the president and the vice president have to time their visits carefully as to not become a logistical burden to recovery efforts on the ground.
It’s “smart” for Harris and Biden to hold off on making an immediate visit, argued North Carolina-based Democratic strategist Morgan Jackson.
“Most true leaders understand that when there is a crisis, the effort to land a president or vice president on the ground with all of the manpower it takes causes more of a problem than it does a help,” said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist….
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