In video, Rep. Harris backs plan to assign Trump electors in hurricane-damaged N.C.

[jayschool2013]

Source: The Baltimore Banner

Pamela Wood
10/25/2024 4:29 p.m. EDT, Updated 10/25/2024 5:01 p.m. EDT

Maryland’s U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, in a video posted to social media, offered support for a plan to award North Carolina’s electoral votes to Republican Donald J. Trump due to hurricane-caused disruptions to voting.

The video from a Republican Party dinner in Talbot County on Thursday was posted online by Ivan Raiklin, the evening’s keynote speaker who is the self-anointed “secretary of retribution” and plans to go after Trump’s enemies if he’s elected this year.

The 35-second video clip shows Raiklin holding a microphone and having an exchange with Harris, seated at a dinner table next to his wife, Nicole Beus Harris, the chairwoman of the Maryland Republican Party. Harris’ district includes the Eastern Shore, Harford County and portions of Baltimore County.

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“In North Carolina, that makes a lot of sense,” Harris says in the video. “I mean, you statistically can go and say: Hey, look, you got disenfranchised in 25 counties. You know what that vote probably would have been, which would be — if I were in the legislature — enough to go, ‘Yeah, we’ve got to convene the legislature. We can’t disenfranchise those voters.’”

Read more: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/andy-harris-north-carolina-trump-F2EGMDOPSFBB3NZY7KT6WBVSDA/

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Harris is the new chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

[msongs]

1. I am the Washington Post and I approve of these people's' mehods nt

[LisaL]

2. These people are something else.

They just want to appoint Trump as king. Who needs elections?

[slightlv]

5. Not appoint Trump... ANOINT Trump as king and savior.

This takes the cake. These people must really be frustrated and terrified with their candidate. They're coming right out and saying "we're going to steal this state's electors, because we know trump can't win them fairly." If I were a citizen of that state I'd be rioting about right now. How about turning your legislative energy and monies towards enabling a fair election, rather than trying to turn it all towards cheating... (gads!)

[Docreed2003]

3. This is how they're going to try to steal NC

Just wait...doesn't matter that VP Harris was leading in the polls in NC before the storm

[highplainsdem]

4. Earlier thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143328151

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. why even have an election? if it were an earthquake in SF, this prick wouldn't say this. Fuck him and everyone who

looks like him.

[Mz Pip]

7. Don't get ahead of yourself

douchebag. Making a big assumption there. Hate to see you be disappointed.☹️

Actually, I’d love to see you disappointed and would revel in the subsequent blowback.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. The radicalized Republican party wants to do away with the inconvenience of voters and elections.

[travelingthrulife]

9. Nice article title making it look like Kamala Harris backs this nonsense.

Awful people out there.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. The "Baltimore Banner" is a news source in Baltimore, Maryland.

Andy Harris is the congressional representative for a portion of Maryland that lies north and east of Baltimore.

Kamala Harris is the vice-president of the United States.

Folks around Baltimore know which one is which.

And good afternoon.

Nice article title making it look like Kamala Harris backs this nonsense.
Awful people out there.

[mucholderthandirt]

10. This is bullshit. Things are already in place to help these folks vote.

No one is trying to keep them from voting, they will vote and be counted.

I've already voted for Harris, as have thousands and thousands of other people here. What about our vote?

Somebody better get their asses in gear and put a stop to this! DO NOT LET THEM STEAL OUR VOTES!

Gov. Cooper, end this craziness now!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Freedom Caucus chair says he was taken out of context on legislature deciding presidential electors

Freedom Caucus chair says he was taken out of context on legislature deciding presidential electors

The Associated Press
October 25, 2024, 6:38 PM

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