Roy Cooper

We must have it.

But Republicans,

that particularly the right wing Republicans want to hold on to the Senate seat and they're going to do whatever it takes.

We're going to need everybody's support.

Yeah, Helene is the worst storm that North Carolina ever had.

And it occurred toward the end of September of last year.

And

Trump, who was running for office at the time, continued to criticize just the Democrats involved in this and made this very partisan, which was frustrating to the people on the ground who were working so hard to try and save lives, get food and water to people.

It was a devastating hurricane.

President Trump finally came into North Carolina after he got elected, and he appointed my opponent, Michael Whatley, as the federal FEMA recovery czar for Western North Carolina.

And guess what's happened?

a trickle of money from the federal government, not nearly enough to even reimburse these small counties that can't afford the money that they've already put out to try and clear debris and build back roads.

There's bipartisan opposition to Michael Watley's position here.

And they've sent in a letter demanding his resignation because now Washington's turning its back.

During the campaign, it was important to them to talk about how horrible everything was going and how much better that they can do.

And now they're talking about eliminating FEMA, maybe throwing some money to the states and saying, good luck to you.

Not very much money because it's clear that this is going to be billions of dollars in order for Western North Carolina recovery.

And they feel like

The back has been turned on them by this administration.

And my opponent, Michael Whatley, is leading the way.