The Presidential election is in the home stretch.
Both candidates are figuring out how to turn out their supporters.
And Laura Ingraham heard one prediction about Trump supporters that scared Democrats.
The political fallout from Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene devastated six states in the southeast.
Western North Carolina was decimated by record flooding that washed entire towns.
Two of the states impacted by the storm, Georgia and North Carolina, are crucial swing states in the Presidential election.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in a virtual deadlock in both states.
The storm could affect turnout in North Carolina and Georgia after the massive devastation.
Trump won 61% of the vote in the counties in Western North Carolina that were declared federal disaster areas after Helene.
He won 56% of the vote in the Eastern Georgia counties that were declared disaster areas.
North Carolina is a state that has early mail-in voting.
40,000 absentee ballots were mailed to voters in North Carolina counties that were declared disaster areas.
Fewer than 1,000 have been returned.
Democrats were giddy about the political implications of Helene.
Former Obama advisor David Axelrod mused on his podcast that Trump voters in Western North Carolina would have a harder time voting the residents of Asheville – a Democrat stronghold in that part of the state.
Donald Trump makes a bold prediction about his supporters
Former President Donald Trump was confident that Hurricane Helene wouldn’t stop his supporters from turning out this election during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“Republican areas got hit very hard,” Trump said. “Many people are dead. They don’t even know what it’s going to be in terms of the number . . . hundreds are missing.”
“I believe they’re going to go out and vote if they have to crawl to a voting booth,” Trump stated. “And that’s what’s happening.”
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump – his daughter-in-law and a North Carolina native – was going to make sure that residents of Western North Carolina would be able to vote.
“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 house,” Ingraham said. “We’re trying to make it convenient for them to go out and vote.”
Trump thought that the botched response to Helene by the Biden-Harris administration would hurt Vice President Kamala Harris.
“[W]e are doing very well in certain areas that we weren’t expected to do – Virginia, we’re doing well,” Trump explained. “We’re doing well all over. I think we’re going to do great in North Carolina because the response has been so bad to the hurricane – this response has been horrific.”
President Joe Biden claimed that the federal response to Helene has been “robust.”
“He doesn’t know what robust is,” Trump said.
“I was in North Carolina yesterday . . . they don’t have the people, and they’re complaining there’s no people around to help,” Trump continued. “I was there for the entire day, and I saw virtually nobody, other than the people who were badly affected.”
Hurricane Helene’s aftermath will be a wildcard that hangs over the election.
