Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy asserted that the floods caused by Hurricane Helene could hinder the mailing and counting of ballots from Republican voters ahead of the November election.
Politico reported Friday roughly 40,000 ballots were mailed to voters in Republican strongholds in North Carolina and Georgia before Hurricane Helene ravaged these swing states. Only 1,000 of those ballots have been returned.
During an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, McCarthy was asked whether he believed the federal government would ensure those ballots were cast and counted.
“Well, I doubt that because they are not even hard at work making sure those people are still alive or they get resources,” McCarthy replied on the Friday edition of Ingraham Angle. “They don’t even have electricity. They don’t even have the ability—if it wasn’t for Elon Musk—they wouldn’t be able to know what is going on right now.”
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