September 30, 2024: Rebuilding after Hurricane Helene

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

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After Hurricane Helene devastated cities across the Southeast this past weekend, political finger-pointing has sprung over how to best respond to disaster-torn communities. At a campaign rally, former President Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of neglecting disaster areas while vacationing, and criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for fundraising over the weekend. Later today, Trump plans to visit Valdosta, Georgia for a briefing on the disaster, and President Joe Biden plans to visit disaster-impacted areas later this week. But, North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards told Playbook's Rachael Bade that his constituents need water, food, and federal disaster assistance, not political photo opps. That, plus, everything else you need to know today.

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0:00.0	presented by BP.
0:05.5	Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, September 13th, and here's what's driving the day.
0:11.9	A scoop for you in Playbook this morning. The Democratic Super PAC Future Forward is putting $35 million behind its latest economy-focused ad.
0:20.4	That's according to our colleague Elena Schneider,
0:22.4	who reports that this spot will be airing in seven battleground states and nationally. And it comes
0:27.0	as Democrats are trying to close the trust gap on which candidate can best handle the economy.
0:32.1	The ad's narrator, Buddy from Allentown, Pennsylvania, is Trump is promising to give tax cuts
0:36.8	to the 1% who are rich as hell.
0:39.8	In other news, our colleague Jonathan Martin has a must-read piece up this morning about the ongoing fallout after Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have moved to demonize Haitians in Ohio.
0:48.9	J-Mart followed Ohio Governor Mike DeWine around as he's been in crisis mode.
0:52.9	The governor was initially reluctant,
0:54.8	J-Mart writes, to let him see the exacerbated tensions in the community. Yet, as Senator J.D. Vance
0:59.9	continued to insist on his lies that Haitians are eating pets was true and falsely calling Haitians,
1:05.2	quote, illegal aliens, DeWine has grown just more infuriated, as he put it to J-Mart
1:10.0	over dinner.
1:16.3	Donald Trump yesterday was fantasizing about police getting, quote, one really violent day or, quote,
1:22.6	real rough hour to cow criminals into submission, complaining that cops aren't free to actually do their jobs.
1:28.5	That was at a campaign stop at Erie, Pennsylvania, where he also dangled the prospect of locking up his political opponents.
1:32.3	He said Harris should be, quote, impeached and prosecuted over the border.
1:38.1	And that's obviously a radical shift from U.S. norms where the federal justice system is independent of politics.
1:43.5	And for this morning's top and playbook, we also focus a bit on another outlandish political play from Trump.
2:01.0	As storm wrecked communities in the South are reeling from damage caused by Hurricane Helene, Donald Trump is trying to inject the issue into the campaign cycle. The former president is heading to Georgia today to be briefed on the damage. And during his campaign stop yesterday, he accused Joe Biden, who spent the weekend in Roebuth, Delaware, of, quote,
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