Former President Donald Trump will visit Valdosta, Georgia, on Monday afternoon after the city got ravaged by Hurricane Helene as the death toll from the storm nears 100 people across the southeast.
Trump will receive a briefing on storm relief efforts, hand out emergency supplies, and speak to reporters in Valdosta around 2:00 p.m. local time. The visit comes after Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for fundraising over the weekend instead of going to parts of the country impacted by the storm.
In a visit to Valdosta over the weekend, Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp called the damage in Valdosta “unprecedented.”
“It looks like a tornado went off. It looks like a bomb went off, and it’s not just here. It looks like that from all the way to Augusta,” he said.
Helene, initially a Category 4 hurricane, brought powerful wind and torrential rain to the…
