Former President Donald Trump is confident his supporters in parts of the country affected by Hurricane Helen will be able to get to the polls on Election Day “even if it means crawling.”
“Republican areas have been hit very hard,” the former president acknowledged in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham that aired Monday.
“Many people are dead. They don't even know what the numbers will be…Hundreds are missing,” he added.
Despite the devastation, particularly in the battleground state of North Carolina, Trump told Ingraham that he does not foresee a scenario in which his supporters would be unable to vote due to the storm.
“I think they're going to go out and vote, even if they have to crawl to the polling place,” the 45th president said. “And that's what's happening.”
President Trump is working with his daughter-in-law and co-founder of the Republican National Committee as part of a team to ensure voters can get to the polls in hard-hit areas from Helen, which made landfall as a strong Category 4 on Sept. 26. Lara Trump, the committee chair, said she was participating. Hurricane.
“Lara is working on it, other people are working on it and we're trying to make it convenient for them, but they just lost their homes,” he said. “We’re trying to make it easy for them to go out and vote.”
Additionally, President Trump suggested that the Harris-Biden administration's response to the storm could actually help the South.
“[W]We're doing very well in certain areas that we weren't expecting. Virginia, we're doing great. We are doing well overall. “I think it's going to work in North Carolina, because the response to the hurricane was so bad — this one was horrendous,” he argued.
President Biden claims the federal response to the hurricanes was “robust,” but President Trump said he did not witness such conditions during multiple trips to Georgia and North Carolina. Ta.
“He doesn't know what solidity is,” the former president said of the 81-year-old commander-in-chief. “He should be there, and [Vice President Kamala Harris] It should be there. She shouldn't participate in fundraisers. ”
“We would have had a huge team of people here,” Trump said of how he was dealing with the storm's effects. “There's no one here.”
“I was in North Carolina yesterday and they were complaining that they don't have enough people in North Carolina and there's no one around to help them,” he claimed.
Trump added: “I was there all day and I saw almost no one but the people who were seriously affected.”
Trump leads Harris by less than a point in North Carolina and by 1.5 points in Georgia, according to RealClearPolitics' latest polling average.
