Having less than six weeks to elections in 2024, it can be easily shaken by external factors, such as Hurricane Helene, which caused unprecedented damage in two states of battlefield: North Carolina and Georgia. Florida was also seriously hit.
North Karolina is facing one of the worst repercussions of damage caused by Helene, not only to communities, but also political.
The damage to the storm can be compared to the damage to Hurricane Katrina, who killed over 1,000 people and became a nightmare for former President George W. Bush. Meanwhile, the fee for the death of a hurricane Helene has already reached 175, and the damage will cost $ 160 billionMaking him one of the most deadly and most steep in US history.
How every candidate copes with the situation or break voting from people suffering from Helene and how a deadly storm will affect the elections.
Reports indicate significant plaintiffs at electoral places in North Carolina, which ignited concerns about the disturbance of postal services. Intelligencer indicated that some people may experience “psychological dislocations and effects that may interfere with all kinds of civic participation.”
In tight presidential races, such as this year’s, even if several thousand people have not appeared in voting, this can significantly affect the results of the election.
American postal service at the beginning of this week suspended Mailing services in western North Carolina. This may be challenges for voters who still have not received post voting cards or those who need to send them. Since September, 250,000 residents of the state asked for post voting, and the winner of the state was probably settled by only tens of thousands of votes, the storm may have a significant impact on the results.
“Millions are without power. There are tens of thousands of people who lost all a month after the election in the two most important states of the battlefield – said Ford O’Connell Republican strategist.
President Joe Biden was criticized for a slow response to a disaster, calling for Americans to “postpone politics”. He also repeated the usual propaganda of climate change with democrat, saying that everyone who doubts the role of climate change in a hurricane “must be dead brain”.
“Scientists inform that thanks to the warming of the oceans of power supply more intense rains, storms such as Helene become stronger and stronger,” said Biden. “They won’t get less, they will be stronger. Today in North Carolina I saw the influence of this fury. “
On the contrary, former President Donald Trump created Gofundme for the victims of Hurricane Helene, who collected over $ 3 million. He also visited the cities affected by the crisis, while Biden spent most of them relaxing in his home in Delaware.
Steven Smith, a political scientist and professor at the University of Washington, said that the burden of storm injuries falls on the Biden-Harris administration, and the way they react to her may cause a political reason for several weeks before voters threw voting cards.
“Everything that seems a bit leisurely, even if it is not leisurely … will have some political rainfall for him and those associated with him. So I think the weight is clearly on the Democrats’ shoulder, “said Smith.
For the party of Vice President Kamali, Harris opened on Sunday a rally in Las Vegas, offering condolences to victims and people suffering from a storm. However, it has not yet visited damaged areas.
The White House official said that Harris plans to visit the affected community “as soon as possible, without disturbing the crisis response surgery.” It is worth noting that Biden’s visit took more than a year to visit the place of Eastern Palestine in Ohio, derailing the train after spilling toxic chemicals, transforming the area into an environmental disaster.
In 2016, Trump won Georgia and North Carolina, and in 2020 only North Carolina won, while Biden took Georgia. However, the decision office stated that 45. The president runs 0.5 percentage points in North Carolina and 0.2 percentage points in Georgia.
