Only five weeks before the election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were subjected to a vital social test by Hurricane Helene’s destructive trail of destruction that drew attention to the southeast of the US, altering campaign strategies and dragging politics into the mix.
Trump traveled to Georgia, one of the hardest hit by the storms, and a crucial battle that will determine the outcome of November, while Harris cut brief a northern campaign swing and went back to Washington for a presentation at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The natural disaster that is ravaging the US south, including two jump says, comes at the conclusion of an already razor-tight presidential election, with more than 100 people dead and hundreds missing. Yet as waters recede, the area is gripped by power outages, landslides and supply scarcity.
As of Monday morning, AccuWeather Inc. had estimated that Helene’s total destruction and economic damage could be as high as$ 160 billion, which is significantly higher than the prediction last month, and that the losses would make it one of the country’s top five most expensive storms ever.
On Monday, both Trump and Harris attempted to make it clear that the wind and restoration efforts were at the forefront of their minds.
Trump in Valdosta, Georgia, offered people the help of one of his most notable sponsors, Elon Musk, saying he had asked the businessman to use his Starlink support to help rebuild communications.
” We want to find Starlink hooked up, because they have no interaction whatsoever”, Trump said about areas in the midst of Helene’s disaster. ” Elon will always appear through”.
Starlink is SpaceX’s large internet-from-space program, consisting of more than 6, 000 satellites in orbit that plate broadband cover to Earth.
However, Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall claimed during a presentation Monday that FEMA would place 30 Starlink transmitters that day in North Carolina, another state that has been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and is also a 2024 battleground, while the Biden administration officials claimed they had already started using Starlink to join communities.
Harris for her portion flew cross-country from Nevada. In Washington, she headed to FEMA offices. Harris claimed to have spoken with both Republican rulers Roy Cooper, a Democrat from North Carolina, and Republican governor Brian Kemp, a Republican from Georgia, frequently.
” We will do everything in our authority to assist populations in responding and recovering. And I’ve shared with them that I plan to be on the earth, as soon as possible”, Harris said, saying she did not want to destroy treatment work.
In a note to clients on Monday, economists from Banks led by Andrew Hollenhorst claimed the wind, along with a potential hit from dockworkers along the East and Gulf coasts, “may cloud underlying economic styles.”
Production and consumption are at risk of declining as a result of ongoing strength interruptions and flood. However, it’s unclear how much will the hurricane’s impact on economic data as task rises since it struck at the end of a month and fourth.
Over the weekend, Trump had criticized Harris and President Joe Biden, criticizing both his general-election strategy and Harris for visiting his Delaware residence while continuing to support his east coast campaign in the wake of the storm that had ravaged towns like Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina.
Biden stated that the presidency would be marshaling the full resources of the federal government” as long as it takes” and that they would be it” as long as it takes.
According to Biden,” I’ve given my crew the task of providing every, every available resource to your communities as quickly as possible,” he noted that he has approved catastrophe declarations in three of them and emergency declarations in seven.
The president stated that he anticipated requesting additional funding from Congress and that he might also ask that lawmakers return from their pre-election corner to Washington.
Biden announced to investigators that he would travel to North Carolina on Wednesday. Trump’s criticism, including that the former president claimed Kemp could n’t reach Biden despite the fact that they had spoken the day before, angered him.
” He is lying”, Biden said. ” It’s irresponsible”.
The president also blasted at a question about how criticized he had for spending the weekend in Delaware as the storm ravaged east areas.
” Come in. Quit playing that game. It’s 90 kilometers from around”, Biden said. ” If I sound frustrated, I am”.
How well-adjusted leaders and candidates may influence how the public perceives their efficiency and compassion in business. In 2012, then-President Barack Obama earned accolades for his accept of then-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, after Hurricane Sandy battered the Northeastern coast shortly before that year’s vote.
Trump’s administration’s handling of the answer to Hurricane Maria, which devastated large portions of Puerto Rico, received widespread criticism in business. The then-president fought with the region’s leaders. And he reportedly threw paper towels into a group when he visited San Juan following the cyclone, a move that Trump has defended despite being criticized as cruel.
Biden has a reputation for being a compassionate leader who would visit impacted communities and ease disaster victims, but the Hawaiian island of Maui’s wildfires in 2023 caused local residents to criticize the actions of state and federal officials.
The president, who was on vacation in Delaware and was asked about wildfire incidents, saying” no opinion,” fueled that criticism. Helene ravaged North Carolina over the weekend while Biden was once more at his Rehoboth Beach residence, but he defended his work to organize a national response.
” I was commanding”, Biden said. ” I was on the telephone the day before and for at least two days yesterday.” I order, it’s called a landline”.
When reporters inquired about how the cyclone had affect her campaign and whether the catastrophe was being politicized during her presentation at FEMA, Harris frowned.
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dirt from Horseshoe Beach’s Hurricane Helene-damaged structures. ( Nicole Craine/The New York Times )
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