{"id":108952,"date":"2024-10-01T03:28:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108952"},"modified":"2024-10-01T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:28:22","slug":"harris-trump-change-campaign-plans-after-hurricane-helenes-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108952","title":{"rendered":"Harris, Trump change campaign plans after Hurricane Helene&#8217;s destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>The former president and Republican nominee claimed upon landing in Valdosta that President Joe Biden was \u201csleeping\u201d and not responding to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who he said was \u201ccalling the president and hasn\u2019t been able to get him.\u201d He repeated the claim at an event with reporters after being told Kemp said he had spoken to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>White House Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back against Trump\u2019s assertion that Biden has been unresponsive during her daily press briefing, noting that Kemp himself told reporters he spoke to Biden on Sunday and that the president asked him what Georgia needed.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s homeland security adviser, Liz Sherwood-Randall, said Biden made clear that he offered Kemp \u201canything\u201d Georgia needed for its response to the storm and remained available to the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if the governor would like to speak to the president again, of course, the president will take his call,\u201d Sherwood-Randall said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House previously announced that Biden spoke by phone on Sunday night with Kemp and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, as well as Scott Matheson, mayor of Valdosta, Georgia, and Florida Emergency Management Director John Louk. Kemp confirmed Monday morning that he spoke to Biden the night before. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president just called me yesterday afternoon and I missed him and called him right back and he just said \u2018Hey, what do you need?\u2019 And I told him, you know, we\u2019ve got what we need, we\u2019ll work through the federal process,\u201d Kemp said. \u201cHe offered if there are other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being humanitarian crises, natural disasters can create political tests for elected officials, particularly in the closing weeks of a presidential campaign in which among the hardest-hit states were North Carolina and Georgia, two battlegrounds. Trump over the last several days has used the damage wrought by Helene to attack Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and suggest she and Biden are playing politics with the storm \u2014 something he was accused of doing when president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"AudioEnhancement\" data-separate-event=\"audioModule\" data-separate-value=\"AP AUDIO: Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"AP AUDIO: Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"ap-audio-trump-makes-false-claims-about-federal-response-as-he-campaigns-in-area-ravaged-by-hurricane-helene\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"AudioEnhancement-description\">AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports Donald Trump is touring Hurricane Helene\u2019s damage in Georgia, while blasting the Biden administration\u2019s response to the deadly storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Biden is defiant about spending time at his beach house<\/h2>\n<p>While the White House highlighted Biden\u2019s call to Kemp and others, the president faced questions about his decision to spend the weekend at his beach house in Delaware, rather than the White House, to monitor the storm. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was commanding it,\u201d Biden told reporters after delivering remarks at the White House on the federal government\u2019s response. \u201cI was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well. I commanded it. It\u2019s called a telephone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden received frequent updates on the storm, the White House said, as did Harris aboard Air Force Two as she made a West Coast campaign swing. The vice president cut short her campaign trip Monday to return to Washington for a briefing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. <\/p>\n<p>Trump, writing on his social media platform Monday, also claimed without evidence that the federal government and North Carolina\u2019s Democratic governor were \u201cgoing out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.\u201d Asheville, which was devastated by the storm, is solidly Democratic, as is much of Buncombe County, which surrounds it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. Ground Game: Sign up for AP's weekly politics newsletter to get it in your inbox every Monday. 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Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-asheville-f02869c7d01e68f2d7f0553abb82252f\">The death toll<\/a><\/span> from Helene has surpassed 100 people, with some of the worst damage caused by inland flooding in North Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harris-las-vegas-trump-nevada-swing-state-5e43f8e9159925cea38070e0bb662e47\">a rally in Las Vegas<\/a><\/span> on Sunday, Harris said \u201cwe will stand with these communities for as long as it takes to make sure that they are able to recover and rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-kamala-harris-white-house-election-a38195f876767332c48d12226a6aea2f\">speaking in Erie, Pa.<\/a><\/span>, on Sunday, described the storm as \u201ca big monster hurricane\u201d that had \u201chit a lot harder than anyone even thought possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Trump partnered with a Christian charity to bring supplies<\/h2>\n<p>Trump said he wanted to stop in North Carolina but is holding off because access and communication is limited in hard-hit communities.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by the Associated Press on Monday if he was concerned that his visit to Georgia was taking away law enforcement resources that could be used for disaster response, Trump said, \u201cNo.\u201d He said his campaign instead \u201cbrought many wagons of resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign partnered with the Christian humanitarian aid organization Samaritan\u2019s Purse to bring trucks of fuel, food, water and other critical supplies to Georgia, said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign\u2019s national press secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Watson, who owns with her husband the home design store Trump visited, said she was told the former president picked that location because he saw shots of the business destroyed with the rubble and said, \u201cFind that place and find those people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t come here for me. He came here to recognize that this town has been destroyed. It\u2019s a big setback,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe recognizes that we are hurting and he wants us to know that,\u201d she added. \u201cIt was a lifetime opportunity to meet the president. This is not exactly the way I wanted to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump campaign officials have long pointed to his visit to East Palestine, Ohio, the site of a toxic trail derailment, as a turning point in the early days of the presidential race when he was struggling to establish his footing as a candidate. They believed his warm welcome by residents frustrated by the federal government\u2019s response helped remind voters why they had been drawn to him years earlier.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump fought with Puerto Rico and meteorologists while president<\/h2>\n<p>During Trump\u2019s term as president, he visited numerous disaster zones, including the aftermaths of hurricanes, tornadoes and shootings. But the trips sometimes elicited controversy such as when he tossed paper towels to cheering residents in Puerto Rico in 2017 in the wake of Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n<p>It also took until weeks before the presidential election in 2020 for Trump\u2019s administration to release $13 billion in assistance for the territory. A federal government watchdog found that officials hampered an investigation into delays in aid delivery. <\/p>\n<p>In another 2019 incident, Trump administration officials <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-climate-change-science-government-and-politics-bad9d7a8eb726a842187ca156ad8b799\">admonished<\/a><\/span> some meteorologists for tweeting that Alabama was not threatened by Hurricane Dorian, contradicting the then-president. Trump would famously display a map altered with a black Sharpie pen to indicate Alabama could be in the path of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said Harris would visit impacted areas \u201cas soon as it is possible without disrupting emergency response operations.\u201d She also spoke with Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, and she received a briefing from FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell while she was traveling.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Fernando reported from Chicago, and Amy reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in New York, Chris Megerian in Washington and Will Weissert in Las Vegas contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kamala-harris-donald-trump-hurricane-helene-3097f1706455929adf5a4eb67f9cdf0f\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALDOSTA, Ga. 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