Hurricane Helene: Trump to speak in Georgia, bashes Harris for not traveling there

• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will to deliver remarks and help hand out supplies in Valdosta, Georgia, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
• Trump recently attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and President Joe Biden in politically charged terms over their response to the deadly storm.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is set Monday to deliver remarks and help hand out supplies in the hurricane-blasted swing state of Georgia, one day after he leveraged the devastating storm as a political attack against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

Trump will travel to the southern city of Valdosta to receive a briefing on the impact of Hurricane Helene and "facilitate the distribution of relief supplies" before speaking to the press at 2 p.m. ET, his campaign said Sunday afternoon.

The short-notice trip comes as Harris, the vice president, scrapped planned campaign stops in Las Vegas in order to return to Washington, D.C., for a briefing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

President Joe Biden, meanwhile, said earlier Monday that he and Harris hope to travel to hurricane-damaged areas once they can be sure their presence will not disrupt emergency response efforts. He later said that he expects to make a trip on Wednesday or Thursday.

The hurricane's death toll has mounted to 116 since it made landfall as a Category 4 storm in northern Florida on Thursday night, according to NBC News' count.

At least 25 people in Georgia have been killed, said Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, at a briefing Monday morning. Deaths have also been reported in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Ferocious rains, wind and floods have left millions of people without