WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� is holding rallies on Wednesday in pivotal Pennsylvania while Vice President prepares for another visit to the West 鈥� even as and threatens to overshadow .
Trump, the former president and current Republican nominee, has events scheduled in Scranton 鈥� birthplace of President 鈥� and in Reading, where he is expected to talk about the economy and immigration in a city that is two-thirds Hispanic.
The hurricane caused Trump to put off a virtual event Tuesday night focused on health care and postpone a Univision town hall in Miami.
Harris plans her own Univision town hall Thursday in Las Vegas before returning to Arizona in what will be her to both states in less . Before flying to Nevada, she will virtually attend a briefing on the storm and the federal response that Biden is receiving Wednesday at the White House.
Biden already , saying, 鈥淚 just don鈥檛鈥� think I can be out of the country at this time.鈥�
Milton is approaching just days after killed more than 220 people in six Southeastern states and left behind a swath of destruction that federal, state and local authorities are trying to alleviate even as they now brace for the next storm.
Harris spent Tuesday in New York on ABC's 鈥淭he View," with radio personality Howard Stern and on 鈥淭he Late Show with Stephen Colbert.鈥� During her interview on 鈥淭he View鈥� and later amid her taping with Colbert, Harris failed to name major ways her future administration would be substantially different from Biden's.
鈥淭here is not a thing that comes to mind,鈥� Harris said on 鈥淭he View.鈥�
Trump reacted on his social media platform, posting that Harris said 鈥渟he would have done nothing different鈥� than Biden whom he called 鈥渢he WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.鈥�
Harris had her own sharp words for her opponent. Reacting to reports in 鈥檚 new book, 鈥淲ar鈥� that Trump, while president, secretly sent COVID-19 test kits to Russian President in 2020, when they were hard to find in the United States, she said incuriously, 鈥淵ou remember what those days were like?鈥�
"You remember how many people did not have tests and were trying to scramble to get them?," Harris asked during the taping with Colbert. 鈥淩emember how rare it was to have them?鈥�
She said of Trump, 鈥淎nd this man is giving COVID test kits to Vladimir Putin. Think about what this means,鈥� before adding, 鈥淗e thinks Vladimir Putin is his friend. What about the American people? They should be your first friends.鈥�
Trump denied the reporting. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the U.S. sent test kits. which he referred to as 鈥渢esters," but denied that the exchange occurred in secret.
鈥淭here were no secret shipments. The pandemic was starting back then," Peskov said in a message on Wednesday. 鈥淢any countries were exchanging equipment. We sent ventilators. Testers came from America.鈥�
Will Weissert, The Associated Press
