WASHINGTON: Hurricane Milton crashed into the US presidential election on Thursday (Oct 10) as President Joe Biden informed Donald Trump to “get a life” and Kamala Harris rebuked her election rival for spreading misinformation.
As Florida reeled from Milton and the latest Hurricane Helene, a political tempest was brewing as Trump and his Republicans unleashed a flood of falsehoods in regards to the White Home response to the 2 storms.
Biden and Harris have launched a feisty fightback as they search to indicate they’re accountable for the state of affairs, and accuse the previous president of placing survivors in peril.
The 81-year-old president testily mentioned, “Are you kidding me?” when a reporter requested after a hurricane briefing on Thursday if he had spoken to Trump, the person he beat within the 2020 election, to inform him to cease the misinformation.
Biden then stopped, appeared immediately into the tv digicam and mentioned in mock commander-in-chief type: “Mr president Trump, former president Trump – get a life, man, assist these folks.”
He took one other potshot on his manner out, saying that “the general public will maintain him accountable” on the poll field in November.
Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and handed the baton to his vp after a disastrous debate in opposition to Trump, however is keenly conscious the best way his administration handles the hurricane response may weigh on her election probabilities.