Reporter’s Notebook: All about the politics of disaster relief
Welcome to the politics of disaster relief.Republicans are excoriating the Biden/Harris administration for how it responded to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, Tennessee and other parts of the South. This is now about to be a double whammy as Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida.It unfolds amid a tight presidential election. So the disaster response is now infused with politics in swing states like North Carolina and Georgia.