Hurricane Milton is wreaking havoc across Florida this morning as recovery and cleanup efforts continue in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The private organizations that have gained trust over the years – Food for the Poor, the Salvation Army, Samaritan’s Purse and Team Rubicon – are once again providing comfort and essential supplies to devastated communities. The state authorities and their state national guards are also performing as expected and with the expected high standard of effectiveness.

Choose your narrative about the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, President Biden and Vice President Harris. You can find any narrative you want by simply searching the internet for an hour. However, try to stick to verified direct offers.

Example: On October 2, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkis stated: “We expect another hurricane. We don’t have the resources. FEMA does not have the resources to get through the season and what lies ahead.”

That is a fact. Mayorkis said this and it stunned lawmakers. Where did the money go?

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A second quote came from President Biden.

Governor DeSantis, the President, stated: “He has been cooperative. He said he got everything he needed. I spoke to him again yesterday and said – no – you are doing a great job, everything is being done well and we thank you for that,” Biden said at a press conference on Tuesday.

The president spoke after Vice President Harris sharply criticized DeSantis in a head-scratching attempt to secure some free media amid back-to-back hurricane crises. The governor of Florida didn’t like this.

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“In fact, she’s been vice president for three and a half years,” DeSantis said later. “I have faced a number of storms under this administration. She has contributed nothing to any of these efforts.”

DeSantis returned to emergency management duties after Harris was virtually pushed back as Milton neared landfall, but it was just one of many horrific moments for the vice president and her campaign this week.

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The View.” (ABC)

For some reason, Harris, a candidate known for turning easy job interviews into fiascos, chose Monday and Tuesday to launch a sit-in. She answered questions from Ed Harris on “60 Minutes,” followed by appearances on “The View,” the usually raunchy “Call Her Daddy Podcast” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The best thing that can be said about this strategy is that it wasn’t consistently terrible.

But it was marked by the kind of political failure that will likely be associated with President Gerald Ford’s assertion during a debate with then-candidate Jimmy Carter: “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” Gov. Michael Dukakis is seen in a tank photographed; President George HW Bush looked at the clock in a 1992 town hall with then-gubernatorial candidate Bill Clinton; and then Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s comments about “47%” and “binders of women.” Face plants are a feature of most campaigns. We just never know when they will happen.

This came when Kamala booster Sunny Hostin asked Harris on “The View,” “In the last four years, would you have done anything differently than President Biden?”

Harris replied, “I can’t think of anything.”

Not. A. Thing.

Nothing about the Afghanistan debacle, whether it was about abandoning American citizens and green card holders or our Afghan allies?

Nothing about Ukraine, whether Biden’s statement that a “smaller incursion” by Putin would not be a big deal, or a delayed delay of many weapons systems and complex restrictions on the use of these weapons?

Nothing about the southern border? Student loan forgiveness (declared unconstitutional twice)? Arming the Justice Department? The restrictions placed on Israel’s war effort, including his (and her) adamant demand that the IDF not enter Rafah. (“I studied the maps!” Harris explained while trying to persuade Israel not to do what Israel successfully did at the time – clear and secure Rafah with minimal casualties to Palestinian civilians came).

No word on how it could have acted to stop, or at least contain, the massive inflation that has ravaged food and real estate over the past 45 months?

Harris tried to argue with DeSantis but failed. She tried to complete four interviews in two days. She’s tried everything and everything points to nothing working, and her sudden detour into interview territory suggests her internal surveys have left her team very worried.

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Or is the team genuinely worried or perhaps secretly happy? The “Harris Team” is largely made up of Joe Biden’s team, which continues even after his sudden resignation and Harris’ rise to the nomination. But does this team help her or fight her? Do they let Kamala be Kamala or do they try to keep her away from cameras and microphones?

We won’t know until the Tell All books come out late this year or early next year. But no matter which one you choose, the Hurricanes and Harris and Hostin are sure to be key moments in the drama of the 2024 election.

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