OH HE GOING TO BE BELIEVING IN CLIMATE CHANGE WHEN THIS IS OVER
Helene hit Trump strongholds in Georgia and North Carolina. It could swing the election. Hurricane Helene hit especially hard in heavily Republican areas of Georgia and North Carolina — a fact that could work to Donald Trump’s disadvantage in the two swing states.
Research has shown that major disasters can influence both voter turnout and voter preference. And Helene has pushed this contest into novel territory: It’s the first catastrophic event in U.S. history to hit two critical swing states within six weeks of a presidential election, based on a POLITICO’s E&E News analysis of data compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Donald Trump spent this week falsely claiming that money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency meant for disaster relief had gone to housing undocumented migrants.
“They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank so they could give it to their illegal immigrants who they want to vote in this election,” he said in Saginaw, Michigan.
Aside from being completely untrue, Trump’s claim is the peak of hypocrisy, considering that in 2019, he himself diverted money from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund to fund immigration detention space for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.