The businessman and his running mate, Mike Pence, drove past piles of ripped-up carpet, furniture and personal belongings discarded on curbs.
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“T$3 he vice president was here about three weeks ago to go to a memorial service for the victims of the police officers that were killed here, and I will tell you it’s a major ordeal”, Edwards continued.
“Now I’m asking you to show that same support to the victims in Louisiana, so that we can begin to rebuild together”, she added.
But he turned down a plate of the south Louisiana specialty, jambalaya, offered to him.
“Donald Trump’s the way to wake us up”, Nolan said.
Trump asked questions about the extent of the damage and thanked volunteers for their efforts.
After they toured the flood damage, they went to Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, where the GOP ticket met with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and of Samaritan’s Purse, an worldwide Christian relief organization.
People like Bourgeois, whose homes were not in designated high-risk flood zones, were especially unprepared for the rising water.
“I heard he wants to stay under par while we are under water”, said Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council and Trump supporter, who met with Trump at the church.
Not really. While the president should prepare a visit to Louisiana in the near future, his immediate presence there wouldn’t do much good.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets flood victims during a tour of flood damaged homes in Denham Springs, Louisiana, Friday. Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned Friday following revelations about his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
Obama has come under fire in recent days for not visiting flood-ravaged Louisiana.
The officials are the highest-ranking Republicans in the state.
The office of Gov. John Bel Edwards – a Democrat – said Trump’s people did not contact the governor’s office about the visit and expressed the hope that it would not be just a “photo-op”. Trump consoled residents – even hugging two – as several Louisianans noted they have felt left out of the national spotlight. The president’s visit there at this time could actually become a burden more than anything else.
“Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is taking his reckless and risky denial of climate science to the heart of a crisis fueled in part by climate change”.
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The American Red Cross is also accepting donations via text message. More than a dozen have died, and countless others have been displaced.
