USA Today: “A Maryland Republican who leads a right-wing coalition in Congress says North Carolina’s legislature should consider awarding Electoral College votes to former President Donald Trump before citizens’ votes are counted, according to Politico.
Rep. Andy Harris, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, made the comments at a dinner on Thursday, saying the idea “makes a lot of sense” because the western part of the state, a rural area where Trump is popular, is still dealing with the impact of Hurricane Helene.
“You statistically can go and say, ‘Look, you got disenfranchised in 25 counties. You know what that vote probably would have been,’” Harris said in a video posted on Twitter. “Which would be — if I were in the legislature — enough to go, ‘Yeah we gotta convene the legislature. We can’t disenfranchise the voters.’”
Harris said the following in a statement: “Yesterday’s theoretical conversation has been taken out of context. As I’ve repeatedly said, every legal vote should be counted. Currently, voting is going well in western North Carolina.””