Biden to deal with Hurricane Helene harm as Trump tries to show it into marketing campaign subject – US politics stay

Donald Trump’s rally in Erie, Pennsylvania yesterday stretched for practically two hours, and commenced with the previous president accusing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of failing to reply as Hurricane Helene struck the southeastern United States.

“Biden is in Delaware sleeping proper now in one in all his many estates,” Trump stated, earlier than alleging Harris was “at fundraising occasions together with her radical left lunatic donors, when huge elements of our nation have been devastated by that huge hurricane and are underwater, with many, many individuals lifeless.”

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Harris’s marketing campaign has to this point held again on making comparable statements about Trump, however did seize on his feedback downplaying the hyperlink between worsening pure disasters and local weather change:

Good morning, US politics weblog readers. After churning throughout the southern US and inflicting huge destruction and dozens of deaths in North Carolina, Georgia and elsewhere, Hurricane Helene seems set to collide with the presidential marketing campaign. Donald Trump will communicate this afternoon in Valdosta, Georgia in regards to the storm, undoubtedly with a watch on turning the swing state’s voters away from Kamala Harris. The previous president has already made the hurricane’s destruction into an assault line on the Democrats, reportedly accusing Joe Biden of “sleeping” because the storm raged. Talking at a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday he additionally accused Harris of turning a blind eye to the destruction.

Biden plans to talk from the White Home at 10.30am ET about his administration’s response to the storm, whereas Harris has introduced the cancellation of marketing campaign occasions in Las Vegas in the present day so she will be able to return to Washington DC and be briefed on the storm’s influence at Fema headquarters. She’ll arrive simply after 5pm.

Right here’s what else is going on in the present day:

• Harris’s financial insurance policies are extra in style with voters than Trump’s, new polling commissioned by the Guardian finds. The vice-president laid out her plans in a significant speech final week.

• The vice-presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz is about for tomorrow night, with each candidates making ready for what’s at present the final scheduled debate earlier than the election.

• Israel might or might not be on the verge of launching a floor invasion of Lebanon. We’ve a stay weblog overlaying the disaster, and you’ll learn it right here.