As the death toll and devastation from Hurricane Helene rises, the storm impacts the White House race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

Hurricane Helene is scrambling the presidential candidates’ plans this week. Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is cutting short a campaign visit to Las Vegas to return to Washington for briefings.

Polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight currently has Harris ahead of Trump by less than a point, 47.9 percent to 47.1 percent in Pennsylvania. It has a population of 13 million; Trump won it by 44,229 votes in 2016, while Biden, who was born in Pennsylvania, won it by 80,555 votes in 2020.

Kamala Harris has historically supported marijuana legalization, but had yet to clarify her stance since launching her current campaign.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump began branding Vice-President Kamala Harris a criminal. “She should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions,” he claimed at one point. At another, he ostentatiously paused his speech while the crowd chanted,

Froomkin tips his hand by quoting SFGate columnist Drew Magary, who angrily argues that Harris is “ destroying Trump, because Trump is a deranged old s—tbag” and that anyone who doesn’t see that is an in-the-bag Establishment hack like everyone at the New York Times.

Cancer researcher and civil rights activist Shyamala Gopalan Harris was the primary carer of the young Kamala after divorcing Jamaican-born Donald Harris.

The Harris campaign accused Trump of a lack of empathy, and the Trump campaign said Harris should visit those affected.

In an opinion piece published Monday, the editorial board wrote that Vice President Harris is the clear choice for the White House while ripping former President Trump for not “being fit” for another term. The New York Times editorial board has endorsed the Democrat candidate in presidential elections since 1960.

Former President Donald Trump will visit the city of Valdosta, Georgia, on Monday after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on the area over the last few days.

The death toll surpassed 100 people, with some of the worst damage caused by inland flooding in North Carolina.