Eric Hovde, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, has been circulating false claims about Hurricane Helene that federal officials are urging people to stop spreading.
"FEMA is out of money and doesn't have money to transfer to those people affected by the hurricane,” Hovde said in an Oct. 3, 2024, video on X, formerly Twitter. “They used the money to assist illegal immigrants.”
As of Oct. 7, 2024, the post is pinned to the top of Hovde’s profile and has over a quarter of a million views.
At former President Donald Trump’s rally in Juneau, Wisconsin, on Oct. 6, 2024, Hovde claimed Vice President Kamala Harris and his opponent, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, are “not even taking care of our veterans or the people that were devastated by that hurricane.”
Trump, meanwhile, declared that the federal government “is doing nothing.” The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has called misinformation spread by Trump and others “ridiculous and just plain false.”
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