Harris ‘Especially’ Wanted to Be Part of Milton Response

On Thursday's MSNBC broadcast of “The Andrea Mitchell Report,” host Andrea Mitchell, NBC News' Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent, said that Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, was heading to the hurricane. “I particularly wanted to participate in crisis response,'' he said. Milton.

Mitchell said:[T]This is a bit of a balancing act. The president, the vice president were responding to the hurricane, and she especially wanted to be part of the crisis response, but at the same time, [there] There are only 26 days left until Election Day. So she needs to balance what she has to do. ”

NBC News chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander agreed, adding: you. So, she's in Las Vegas right now, of course, participating in a Univision town hall that will air later today. As you noted, she was virtually dialed into the Situation Room briefing here at the White House a while ago, and FEMA Director Deanne Criswell also joined the conversation, and the President's Homeland Security Adviser also participated in the conversation. I was participating. Frankly, during the press conference that President Biden was having all night. There was an update last night, and another update this morning. We're going to hear from the Secretary of Homeland Security right now, and he's scheduled to join Karine Jean-Pierre in the briefing room at 1 p.m. As you said, the president will speak at 2 p.m. But I think your point here is a good one. Kamala Harris is headed to Phoenix, part of the West Coast Swing, for a rally tonight and is going to prove herself and her kind of ability as well as her ability to deal with this kind of crisis. The goal is to focus on the necessary messages she wants to convey during the election campaign. So the actual message of the campaign is that she's trying to get the message across about why she's best suited to serve this country as president for the next four years while maintaining her efforts and responsibilities as vice president. That's true. ”