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Disaster politics: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are the latest to deal with fallout

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Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are hoping that recovery from Hurricane Helene will resemble the federal government's response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 .

Former President Donald Trump is trying to turn the latest natural disaster into the Harris-Biden version of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 .

Disaster politics are a staple of presidential politics, from the post-world war flu epidemic to the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020 .

A former aide to Christie said compromise and bipartisanship "became dirty words among the far right and far left" A report from Politico 's E&E News cited interviews with a pair of ex-Trump aides.

Trump hesitated to provide disaster aid to areas he believed were Democratic leaning, the report said.

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English

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