Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will deliver remarks and help distribute supplies in the hurricane-hit swing state of Georgia on Monday, a day after using the devastating storm as a political attack on Democratic candidate 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-term trip comes as Harris, the vice president, canceled planned campaign stops in Las Vegas 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 as soon as they can be assured their presence will not disrupt emergency response efforts. He later said he expects to make a trip Wednesday or Thursday.

The hurricane’s death toll has risen to 116 since it made landfall in North Florida as a Category 4 storm on Thursday evening, according to NBC News’ count.

At least 25 people in Georgia have been killed, Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, said at a briefing Monday morning. Deaths have also been reported in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Heavy rains, winds and flooding have left millions of people without electricity, and entire cities – including those hundreds of miles inland, such as Asheville, North Carolina – have been submerged under meters of water.

On Sunday, Trump attacked Biden and Harris in politically charged terms for their response to Helene.

“They’re raising a lot of money from bad people, hosting fundraising events with their radical left crazy donors, while large parts of our country have been destroyed by that huge hurricane and are underwater with a lot of people dead,” Trump said during a campaign. meeting in Erie, Pennsylvania.

“She should be here. She should be in the area where she should be. That’s what she gets paid for, right? That’s what she gets paid for.’

The Harris campaign and its allies had already lashed out at Trump for his comments about Helene at a rally in Michigan on Friday, when he told those affected by the hurricane: “We are with you all the time, and if we were there, We would help you, and you’ll be fine.”

A Harris campaign social media account quickly shared that clip to suggest Trump was downplaying the disaster. The clip, which was picked Monday morning, had been viewed more than 5 million times on X, according to the site.

Trump’s allies said the clip was taken out of context and defended his comments, saying he offered comfort to the storm’s victims.

But some of the former president’s opponents drew parallels between the quote and Trump’s insensitive responses to previous natural disasters, including throwing rolls of paper towels at a crowd of people surviving a hurricane in Puerto Rico in 2017.

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