Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman Lara Trump suggested that exceptions should be made to Hurricane Helene victims ahead of November’s election.
The storm hit about a month before Election Day. Over 200 people have died, and more than 2,000 have been reported missing, since Hurricane Helene touched ground in Florida and spread to Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Trump appeared on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday, on which host Laura Ingraham cited a Washington Examiner report on the number of voters in the affected areas of North Carolina, which is considered a swing state. The state elected a Democratic presidential candidate in 2008 but has largely leaned Republican since then. The election is less than a month away, and the state’s voter registration deadline is Oct. 11.
According to the RNC chairwoman, the committee sent a memo to Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) and the assembly with 10 suggestions on how to help ensure people still vote.
“So, some of these things include allowing folks who have been displaced from their voting county to vote in other counties or maybe turn absentee ballots in in other counties or allowing some of these counties where they’ve had destruction to use temporary locations or new locations for voters to access,” Trump explained. “It is absolutely vital in an election like this. We cannot leave a single vote on the line.”
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North Carolina’s election board unanimously voted earlier this week to offer more ways to obtain and deliver absentee ballots. However, the vote happened 10 days before early voting begins in the state.
Trump suggested the RNC may pursue legal action “as needed” should further natural disasters keep voters from the polls.