Former President Donald Trump will crisscross North Carolina on Monday, with stops in Asheville, Greenville and Concord.

Trump plans to stop first in Asheville at noon to see the damage from Helene and give remarks, according to his campaign. He then plans to hold a rally at 3 p.m. in eastern North Carolina and attend an event in Concord that evening.

Helene was the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005, decimating remote towns throughout Appalachia and killing at least 246 people, with a little over half of the storm-related deaths in North Carolina.

While electricity has nearly been fully restored in western North Carolina, tens of thousands lack access to clean running water. Still, all but four of the 80 early voting sites initially planned for the 25 western counties hardest hit by the storm were open on Thursday.

Trump's announcement comes after his campaign also said the former president would stop in Concord for an 11th Hour Faith Leaders Meeting in which his son, Eric Trump, and Dr. Ben Carson are expected to join. That event is set for 6 p.m.

There's also a rally that same day in Greenville set for 3 p.m., where he plans to talk about the economy, according to a release. 

Both presidential candidates continue to swarm the battleground state even as some residents have already voted early. The State Board of Elections said Friday that a record 353,166 people cast ballots at more than 400 early voting sites statewide on Thursday, compared to 348,599 on the first day in October 2020.

Traditional absentee balloting began several days before Helene reached the state. More than 75,000 ballots were received from in-state, military and overseas voters through Thursday, the board said.

The early-vote period, which continues through Nov. 2 in all 100 counties, is extremely popular in North Carolina. More than 3.6 million ballots — 65% of all ballots — were cast during early voting in the 2020 general election.