GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is holding a campaign rally Sunday in battleground North Carolina to talk about her economic plans and highlight Thursday’s start of early voting in the state, her campaign said.

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Harris used an appearance earlier Sunday before a largely Black church audience in Greenville to call out Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the government’s hurricane response.

Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, did not speak Trump’s name, but he is most prominent among those promoting false claims about the Biden administration’s response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene. Florida was in the path of both storms, which also hit North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

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The vice president spoke at Koinonia Christian Center about the “heroes” all around helping residents without regard to political affiliation.

“Yet, church, there are some who are not acting in the spirit of community, and I am speaking of these who have been literally not telling the truth, lying about people who are working hard to help the folks in need, spreading disinformation when the truth and facts are required,” Harris said.

“The problem with this, beyond the obvious, is it’s making it harder, then, to get people life-saving information if they’re led to believe they cannot trust,” she said. “And that’s the pain of it all, which is the idea that those who are in need have somehow been convinced that the forces are working against them in a way that they would not seek aid.”

Harris said their motives are transparent, “to gain some advantage for themselves, to play politics with other people’s heart break, and it is unconscionable,” she said. “Now is not a time to incite fear. It is not right to make people feel alone.”

“That is not what leaders, as we know, do in crisis,” she said.

Trump made a series of false claims after Helene struck in late September, including saying that Washington was intentionally withholding aid from Republicans in need across the Southeast. The former president falsely claimed the Federal Emergency Management Agency had run out of money to help them because it all was spent on programs to help immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

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He pressed that argument on Fox News Channel, saying the White House’s storm response was “absolutely terrible” and repeating the claim about FEMA’s dollars. “It came out from there and everybody knew it,” Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday and was taped Thursday.

Harris opened her second day in North Carolina by speaking at the church in Greenville as part of her campaign’s “Souls to the Polls” effort to help turn out Black churchgoers before the Nov. 5 election.

Madhani reported from St. Pete Beach, Florida, and Superville from Washington.