Nearly 80 Dead and 1,000 Missing in California as Trump Visits to Assess Wildfire Damage

Governing: President Trump made a rare visit to smoke-choked California on Saturday, joining Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom to tour what he called the "really, really bad" devastation of the Camp Fire and pledging to help with the still-unfolding disaster.

Word that Trump was coming to the deep-blue state had initially touched off anxieties among both residents and the Democratic leadership, a tension heightened by the president's recent claims that California's "poor" forest management was to blame for the deadly fire.

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