Customers on social media took goal at Vice President Kamala Harris after the Democratic nominee took to X to pledge hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in assist for Lebanon on the similar time residents of North Carolina wrestle to recuperate from Hurricane Helene.
“This must be pretend. Even Kamala Harris, the gold normal of silly, isn’t silly sufficient to put up this,” actor James Woods stated on X Saturday. “Actually not whereas North Carolinians are pulling the our bodies of their neighbors from the wreckage. It’s merely inconceivable.”
The put up got here in response to Harris pledging Saturday to ship $157 million of “extra help” to Lebanon, which, she argued, is “dealing with an more and more dire humanitarian state of affairs.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris (Brendan Smialowski/AFP through Getty Photographs)
“I’m involved concerning the safety and well-being of civilians struggling in Lebanon and can proceed working to assist meet the wants of all civilians there,” the vice chairman stated, including that the cash would go to “important wants,” together with “meals, shelter, water, safety, and sanitation to assist those that have been displaced by the current battle.”
Customers on social media have been fast to slam Harris for the put up, arguing that many North Carolina residents are struggling to recuperate from Hurricane Helene and that the cash could be higher spent on these aid efforts.
“May this be any extra tone deaf? We now have Individuals struggling and at risk proper now after the hurricane and that is what Kamala has to announce. America First!” Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., stated on X.
Search and rescue workforce members hike alongside Route 9 within the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Oct. 1, 2024, in Bat Cave, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Photographs)
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“To be clear – Kamala Harris’ campaign-suicidal put up this night specializing in LEBANON whereas main catastrophe rescues and restoration are underway is an admission she is shedding Michigan proper now.,” journalist Eric Daugherty stated in a put up.
“Kamala is touting giving cash to the folks of Lebanon-while stiff-arming the humanitarian disaster in North Carolina,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stated on X. “That is Kamala’s Katrina.”
The controversial tweet comes because the Biden administration has continued to face backlash for its dealing with of Helene, with former President Trump calling the federal response to the catastrophe the “most incompetently managed ‘storm,’ on the federal degree, ever seen earlier than.”
Former President Trump addresses a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. An assassination try was made on Trump on the similar website on July 13. (Matthew McDermott for Fox Information Digital)
“Kamala and Sleepy Joe are universally being given POOR GRADES for the way in which that they’re dealing with the Hurricane, particularly in North Carolina,” Trump stated in a put up on Fact Social.
The White Home and Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a Fox Information Digital request for remark.
