{"id":2367244,"date":"2024-11-11T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-dem-suppression-helene-hit-nc-lifted-trump-to-victory\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:52:55","slug":"despite-dem-suppression-helene-hit-nc-lifted-trump-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-dem-suppression-helene-hit-nc-lifted-trump-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Dem Suppression, Helene-Hit NC Lifted Trump To Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdespite-dem-suppression-helene-hit-nc-lifted-trump-to-victory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2367244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2062article from \u200cThe Federalist discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-gov-sarah-sanders-endorses-trump-at-florida-rally-everybodys-favorite-president\/\" title=\"Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders backs Trump at Florida rally, hails him as &#039;beloved President&#039;.\">strong voter \u2064turnout<\/a> for President Trump in western North Carolina, despite the devastation \u200ccaused by Hurricane \u2062Helene. While many residents were still without\u200d basic necessities on Election Day, the voter\u2064 turnout in \u2062the affected\u2064 region exceeded both their own 2020 performance and the statewide voter rate, showcasing resilience amid\u2063 adversity. The article highlights allegations \u2063of neglect from Democratic leaders regarding disaster responses, which some believed aimed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-slams-woke-corporate-hypocrites-for-working-with-china\/\" title=\"Rubio Slams \u2018Woke Corporate Hypocrites\u2019 for Working With China\">suppress voter turnout<\/a>.\u200d Ultimately, approximately 616,000 voters from this area cast\u200b their ballots for\u2063 Trump, contributing significantly to his \u2062victory\u2064 in North Carolina, mirroring his previous winning margin\u200c in\u200c 2016. Certain voting locations were rendered unusable due to hurricane damage, \u200dprompting a need for contingency plans and intervention\u200b from state officials to ensure access to polling \u200dsites.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span>Breccan F. 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return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Amid the death and destruction Hurricane Helene wrought in western North Carolina, voters in the emergency-declaration region showed up to help carry the state for President-Elect Donald Trump, outdoing their performance in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Americans watched aghast as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/05\/are-dems-slow-walking-hurricane-relief-to-suppress-an-election-deciding-number-of-gop-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slow-rolled responses from Democrat leaders<\/a>, including from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/09\/still-no-fema-as-blank-page-harris-plays-politics-with-hurricane-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden-Harris Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/a> (FEMA), <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/04\/sources-femas-failure-leaves-hurricane-helene-victims-crying-out-for-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appeared to be negligent<\/a> and had many wondering if state and federal leadership were trying to suppress the vote from the deep-red region of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5ae2e689954edc760115ee8b87adf433 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5ae2e689954edc760115ee8b87adf433\"><\/div>\n<p>By Election Day, some western North Carolinians were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/11\/02\/north-carolina-hurricane-helene-recovery-community\/75914159007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still<\/a> without power, water, roads and bridges, and a normal school schedule, but voters there not only outperformed themselves compared to 2020, they also beat the 2024 statewide rate at which ballots were cast.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;North Carolina voters, particularly in our western counties, overcame the challenges brought by Hurricane Helene to deliver a resounding victory for President Trump,&rdquo; Jim Womack, president of the North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIT), told The Federalist. &ldquo;Without them, he couldn&rsquo;t have won, and with them, he won by approximately the same margin he did in 2016.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to The Federalist&rsquo;s analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/er.ncsbe.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unofficial vote totals<\/a> from the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), just over 616,000 voters from the 28 counties and Indian reservation areas in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">emergency-declaration zone cast ballots<\/a> for Trump, providing a net of nearly 250,000 votes to his statewide voter total, which he won by about 190,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the region delivered 604,119 votes for Trump, and a net 247,217 votes, contributing to Trump&rsquo;s roughly 75,000-vote win in the state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f1aa92c96ca4ce7ac0c6441499b3e3bd fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f1aa92c96ca4ce7ac0c6441499b3e3bd\"><\/div>\n<p>While the unofficial statewide rate at which voters cast ballots was 73.10 percent, according to the NCSBE numbers, the regional rate was 75.90 percent. However, voter participation in the region is less than it was in 2020 (77.31 percent), suggesting Helene may have had some effect on the vote totals. Those in the region who voted for Trump accounted for about 11 percent of all voters statewide and 21 percent of the state&rsquo;s Trump voters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not surprised. That region of NC was founded with a fierce independent Scottish spirit that remains there today,&rdquo; Jay DeLancy, executive director of Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina, told The Federalist. &ldquo;These are tough people who never sit around, waiting for somebody else to solve their problems.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane destruction in the region made some voting locations unusable, leading the NCSBE and county boards of election to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/09\/north-carolina-elections-board-makes-emergency-voting-changes-in-counties-hardest-hit-by-helene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contingency plans<\/a> and find new locations so that voters could get to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>While many of those plans came after criticism about hurricane response generally, Democrats in control of local elections boards in Henderson and McDowell counties still stood in the way of opening more locations where those in the region could cast their ballots. Those counties&rsquo; obstinance provoked <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/25\/democrats-in-north-carolinas-helene-disaster-area-block-emergency-early-voting-locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intervention from the state legislature<\/a>, which compelled them to open more polling sites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c48ecbb75880226c6e184f308934307e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c48ecbb75880226c6e184f308934307e\"><\/div>\n<p><em>For more election news and updates, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/electionbriefing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electionbriefing.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-53380fc863acfba283f6dfbedd1f40aa fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-53380fc863acfba283f6dfbedd1f40aa\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Breccan F. 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