The president has already made several similar trips since taking office in January. He has visited with victims of hurricanes and extreme storms on the Gulf Coast and in the New York area, and with victims of wildfires in the West.
In each case, Mr. Biden has tried to reassure residents that the federal government was working hard to speed recovery efforts, while also offering personal comfort to people who have suffered extreme damage from the disasters.
In Kentucky, Mr. Biden “will be surveying the storm damage firsthand, making sure that we’re doing everything to deliver assistance as quickly as possible to impacted areas to support recovery efforts,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Tuesday.
“I can tell you from traveling on some of these trips with the president in the past,” she said, “often what happens is he will ask leaders directly, ‘What do you need? What are you not getting? And how can we make it faster for you?’ And then he will get back in the car and he will give an assignment to a staffer and say, ‘Get this done.’”
The region hit by the storms voted largely for Mr. Biden’s opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, in the 2020 election. A reporter asked Ms. Psaki on Tuesday if Mr. Biden had prepared specifically for his visit to the conservative area.