The remnants of Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on western North Carolina over the weekend, causing catastrophic damage and leaving many unaccounted for. The region is struggling to cope with widespread flooding, landslides, and infrastructure collapse.
“Biden was at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, over the weekend, where he received briefings about Helene’s devastation…”by Helene across the southeast Friday and Saturday, particularly the devastation that unfolded in western North Carolina and their neighbors in eastern Tennessee by what remained of the hurricane once she hit those areas.
Plus, even here in Charlotte there was flooding from lakes, dams, etc., issues that persist as of this writing to the extent that Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools As for Biden and Harris, the POTUS was indeed at the beach this past weekend and Harris indeed was participating in swanky fundraisers out west, the optics of which were horrible and which would have been slammed by the Usual Suspects had our president been a Republican. Their insensitivity absolutely should be called out. Their rules and all.
While I stand second to no one in my criticisms of Biden and Harris, in my opinion, I don’t think there’s an effort to deliberately ignore this state. Harris wants to win it, and you can rest assured at some point very soon she’ll be here touring the areas hardest hit for photo ops if nothing else. Quite frankly I wish they’d both stay away but we all know that won’t happen.
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