WASHINGTON: Hurricane Milton crashed into the US presidential election on Thursday (Oct 10) as President Joe Biden instructed 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 concerning the White Home response to the 2 storms.
Biden and Harris have launched a feisty fightback as they search to point out they’re in command of the state of affairs, and accuse the previous president of placing survivors in peril.
The 81-year-old president testily stated, “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, regarded instantly into the tv digital camera and stated 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 approach 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 vice chairman after a disastrous debate in opposition to Trump, however is keenly conscious the way in which his administration handles the hurricane response may weigh on her election probabilities.
