A man with an assault rifle allegedly threatened government workers helping with Hurricane Helene relief efforts in North Carolina, highlighting the political tensions surrounding disaster response.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It was around 1pm on Saturday when the call came through to the Rutherford County sheriff’s office in North Carolina .ravaged the western stretch of the state, a man with an assault rifle had allegedly threatened to harm government workers helping with relief efforts in Lake Lure and Chimney Rock, two mountain towns devastated by the disaster.
While Democrats haven’t won a presidential election here since Barack Obama in 2008, the party has traditionally come within a few percentage points of flipping it from Republicans. But while the state has been a perennial tease for Democrats, it’s also politically volatile for Republicans. The hardest-hit areas are in Western North Carolina, a rural part of the state that has traditionally voted for Trump, except for Asheville, a left-leaning artsy haven that is likely to skew heavily to Harris.
“You’re in a state that was decided by about 74,000 votes and 16 per cent of voters are in the counties that were declared a state of emergency or a devastated area. Sixteen per cent in any state is substantial, let alone one that is this close,” says Czabovsky, who specialises in electoral data analysis.
Cynthia Wallace, who heads the New Rural Project, a non-partisan group that mobilises young and marginalised voters, fears the lies being peddled won’t just hamper the recovery effort. In addition to the presidential race, voters in North Carolina will also decide on a string of other elections, including a controversial battle for governor involving the Trump-endorsed Mark Robinson, an anti-LGBTQ pro-lifer who once referred to himself as a “Black Nazi”.
Among the ideas contained in the controversial blueprint is a plan to scrap the federal education department and give states the power to control all schools, as well as a push to cut the student loans Biden enacted.
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