Harris tears into Trump over his attacks on federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "Despite the storm, Trump and Harris are both visiting key swing states strategically, trying to increase support with key voting blocs who could decide an election expected to be exceedingly close.
39% : The unemployment rate fell slightly lower under Biden -- to 3.4% early last year, the lowest in a half-century, below 3.5% before the pandemic under Trump.
38% : Except Trump then seemed to indicate that the debt was a byproduct of the trade deficit with China -- which is a separate issue that reflects the difference between how much a country exports and how much it imports.
36% : "We have $36 trillion in debt," Trump said.
30% : Trump has also claimed, without providing specifics, that he can use tariffs to reduce the U.S. budget deficit and pay for an expansion of childcare funding, even as he proposes other ideas without saying how he would replace the lost funding.
25% : "Hispanic voters are about evenly split on whether to trust Harris or Trump to do a better job handling the economy, but they give the former president an edge on handling immigration.
23% : But Trump also suggested that the Biden administration's response had been lacking, particularly in North Carolina after Helene.
21% : "They're being so damn un-American with the way they're talking about this stuff," Biden said, then adding directly to Trump: "Get a life, man.
20% : "They've let those people suffer unjustly," said Trump, who has for several days promoted falsehoods about the federal response.
20% : In subsequent comments to reporters, Biden slammed Trump and his supporters for spreading misinformation about federal assistance available to victims.
20% : "Harris responded that Trump "yet again has trashed another great American city when he was in Detroit, which is just a further piece of evidence on a very long list of why he is unfit to be president of the United States.
20% : "They've been screwing us for so many years that we're allowed to get some of that back," Trump said about charging tariffs from countries.
19% : In Michigan, where he's looking to appeal primarily to blue-collar voters, Trump took a swipe at the city he happened to be campaigning in, suggesting that Detroit was "a mess.
19% : Trump said powerful companies have "raped" the United States.
18% : Hispanic women are more likely to trust Harris to better handle the economy and immigration, and Hispanic men are more likely to trust Trump on both issues, according to polling from The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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