Politico: “Hundreds of thousands of voters in the mountains of western North Carolina are still reeling after the Sept. 27 storm destroyed homes and communities, obliterated roads and water systems and left at least 95 people dead in the critical swing state. But the presidential race here is now very much back on, after conventional campaigning came to a halt in this part of North Carolina — a state that Donald Trump had been waging an aggressive fight to defend when Harris suddenly made the race much more competitive late this summer.
As early voting has begun in North Carolina — drawing record-setting statewide turnout on Thursday — and the process of restoring water, electricity, road access and mail service is underway, both parties have resumed some of their campaign activities in the affected areas. Democrats last week held an early-voting kickoff event in Asheville and are holding both get-out-the-vote and relief events. Trump on Monday will make his first visit back to western North Carolina since the hurricane last month, while his allies on the ground are making arrangements to bring isolated voters down blocked country roads on ATVs, if needed, to ensure his rural supporters can get to the polls.”