Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he would travel to Hawaii, as the US president sought to quell mounting criticism of his response to deadly wildfires that have ravaged the state over the past week.
“My wife Jill and I are going to travel to Hawaii as soon as we can,” Biden said in a speech in Wisconsin. “I don’t want to get in the way. I’ve been to too many disaster areas. But I want to go make sure they got everything they need.”
The president’s comments follow days of criticism from political opponents over his response to the disaster, in which the death toll has reached almost 100 people with many more fatalities expected.
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