Is Helene the "October Surprise" for this election ?

[Metaphorical]

2. Definitely Jack Smith

However, Helene is very much likely to suppress a lot of voting in more rural areas of the deep South from the Florida panhandle all the way to North Carolina. The cities will recover fairly quickly, the rural areas, not so much. None of that is good news for Trump.

My suspicion is that the events last July caught the GOP VERY flatfooted, and any dirty tricks that they were up to were completely disrupted. They didn't have much psyOps on Kamala Harris, and none on Walz, which is why so many of their attacks appear amateurish at best.