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“The nation has your back” promises President Joe Biden
Visits hard-hit North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

(USA Today, John Bacon, Beth Warre, Jorge L. Oritz) — President Joe Biden traveled to the Carolinas on a Wednesday tour to survey devastation from Hurricane Helene as residents across much of the Southeast press on with the arduous task of rebuilding their shattered communities, homes and lives.

Biden visited Greenville, South Carolina, and later got an aerial view of the extensive damage in Asheville, North Carolina. Vice President Kamala Harris also made a trip to a highly impacted state, meeting with local officials and first responders in Augusta, Georgia.

“I’m here to say the United States – the nation – has your back,” Biden said at an emergency command center in Raleigh alongside North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. “We’re not leaving until you’re back on your feet completely.”