President Barack Obama has altered his campaign travel plans to go to Louisiana on Monday to meet with officials that are handling Hurricane Isaac. Hurricane Isaac made landfall this week and hit Louisiana.
The President was originally supposed to go to Cleveland, Ohio but has decided to make the Gulf Coast trip in lieu of the hurricane. He will travel from Toledo, Ohio to Louisiana.
Mitt Romney’s campaign had canceled a trip to Virginia on Friday in order to go to Louisiana to assess the damage done by the storm.
Obama’s White House spokesman, Jay Carney said on Friday that Obama will visit Louisiana and meet with officials in the state that are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac.
Obama intends to survey the damage and see what needs still need to be met. To date, The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been leading the recovery efforts of Hurricane Isaac.
Romney will visit Louisiana's Republican governor, Bobby Jindal in Louisiana and Obama has been traveling to Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia this week on campaign events.
White house spokesman, Carney has said to Reuters that he has not visited Louisiana yet because of logistics. "It was the assessment of the president's team working with all the people involved in operations, as well as people on the ground, that Monday was a good day for the president to visit," he said.
Obama issued a warning before Hurricane Isaac hit Lousiana and said “now’s not the time to test fate … you need to take this seriously. As we prepare for Isaac to hit I want to encourage all residents of the gulf coast to listen to your local officials and follow their directions."
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