Harris helps pack diapers for North Carolina hurricane victims

RALEIGH, North Carolina: Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday helped pack diapers into boxes of personal care products destined for North Carolina...

RALEIGH, North Carolina: Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday helped pack diapers into boxes of personal care products destined for North Carolina hurricane victims, agreeing with one helper who said "it takes a village.”

"You're exactly right,” Harris said as she put two packages of diapers in each cardboard box that was placed in front of her assembly-line style.

Harris met with Black leaders at The Pit Authentic Barbecue restaurant in Raleigh before she joined volunteers who were there to pack bandages, baby formula, baby wipes, pain relief pills and other items for victims of Hurricane Helene, which tore through western North Carolina last month.

The vice president was overnighting in the state, which narrowly backed her rival, Republican Donald Trump, in 2020. Democrats are campaigning hard to flip North Carolina into their column in the presidential election next month. On Sunday, Harris was attending church in Greenville as part of her campaign's "Souls to the Polls” effort to get out the vote and holding a rally.

The weekend trip was her second to the battleground state after it was struck by Hurricane Helene. The Democratic presidential nominee went to North Carolina last Saturday to survey the aftermath of Helene and pledged federal assistance for its victims.