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David Axelrod: Trump Voters in Hurricane-Ravaged Areas Will Have Difficulty Voting

But former Obama adviser assures that "liberal voters" in areas like Asheville, North Carolina, "will figure out a way to vote."

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Democrat strategist and former Obama adviser David Axelrod admitted the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene would likely hurt Trump more than Harris at the ballot box, noting that the hardest-hit regions lean more Republican.

“Here’s my question about North Carolina, you had these killer storms, which by the way was a third big story this week. And, there’s a lot of displacement in western North Carolina. Now, Asheville is a blue dot,” he said Friday on his podcast Hacks on Tap, adding that those residents are mostly “upscale, kind of liberal voters” who would “figure out a way to vote.”

“I’m not sure a bunch of these folks who had their homes and lives destroyed elsewhere in western North Carolina — in the mountains there — are going to be as easy to wrangle for the Trump campaign,” Axelrod added.

Many on social media slammed Axelrod’s comments as insulting and out of touch and noted his remarks explain why FEMA has been neglecting to provide — and according to some reports, even actively blocking — adequate relief to the Republican-leaning hurricane-affected areas.

Far-left publication Politico likewise claimed that the “Trump strongholds” in North Carolina and Georgia hardest hit by Hurricane Helene could “swing the election” in favor of Democrats.

“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,” the outlet stated.

“The challenge for Trump: The parts of western North Carolina and eastern Georgia that were flooded by the monster storm are largely Republican. In 2020, he won 61 percent of the vote in the North Carolina counties that were declared a disaster after Helene. He won 54 percent of the vote in Georgia’s disaster counties.”


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