On Sunday, Ohio Senator JD Vance doubled down on defending his running mate former President Donald Trump's false claims about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.
After Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane late last month, leaving a trail of destruction along the southeastern United States, Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, began spreading falsehoods about recovery efforts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
While appearing on ABC News' This Week on Sunday morning, the network's chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz confronted Vance about the claims.
"During Hurricane Helene, as we heard, former President Trump suggested the federal government was not only sending FEMA aid meant for the hurricane to migrants but 'going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.' Do you think that is true?" she asked.
During a campaign rally in Michigan on October 3, Trump said that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, "spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country."
The former president also wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform, on September 30 that he didn't "like the reports that I'm getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas," referring to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.
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