CNN reports:
Vice President Kamala Harris sought to counter rampant misinformation around the federal government’s response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton Wednesday, telling CNN in an interview that comments suggesting that federal assistance has run out from former President Donald Trump and his allies is “unconscionable” and could serve to discourage people in the path of the storm from seeking much-needed aid.
“It is dangerous — it is unconscionable, frankly, that anyone who would consider themselves a leader would mislead desperate people to the point that those desperate people would not receive the aid to which they are entitled, and that’s why I call it dangerous,” Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash,. “And we all know it’s dangerous, and the gamesmanship has to stop at some point, the politics have to end, especially in a moment of crisis.”
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Vice President Harris: It is unconscionable that anyone who considers themselves a leader would mislead desperate people… The last thing that people deserve is a so-called leader misleading them and making them afraid of seeking help pic.twitter.com/mTNW12InUg
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