Additionally, the president held a conversation with senators from both parties who represent the states severely affected by Hurricane Helene, which devastated the Southeast about two weeks ago.
After a demanding day of managing the federal response to the storms, Biden declared, “I directed my team to do everything we can to save lives and help communities before, during, and after the hurricane—the one that has just passed and this awful one that’s about to hit.”
Observe all safety guidelines and directions for evacuation. This is not to be taken lightly.
The politics of federal disaster relief are once again front and center on the campaign trail, with less than four weeks until Election Day in November, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump locked in a narrow margin-of-error showdown in the race to succeed Biden in the White House, and two of the hardest-hit states from Helene — North Carolina and Georgia — among the seven key battlegrounds that will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 election.
For almost two weeks, Trump has been criticizing Biden and Harris nonstop and claiming that they are incapable of leading the federal response to the two catastrophic hurricanes that occurred back-to-back.
