Ron DeSantis gave one scary warning about the election that left conservatives feeling sick

Ron DeSantis does not like what he is seeing in the election. 

He is not one to bite his tongue about what is going on. 

And Ron DeSantis gave one scary warning about the election that left conservatives feeling sick. 

Ron DeSantis warns the storm could help Kamala Harris 

Hurricane Helene cut a path of destruction across six states in the southeast. 

North Carolina and Georgia, two of the most important swing states in the country were affected by the storm.

The seven swing states in the Presidential election this year, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada, are worth a total of 88 Electoral Votes. 

North Carolina and Georgia are each worth 16 Electoral Votes, which makes them worth over one-third of the 88 up for grabs in the swing states. 

Polling shows that both states are still close contests that either candidate could win.  

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis predicted that Vice President Kamala Harris could be helped politically by Hurricane Helene during an interview with conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch.

“If you look at Georgia and North Carolina, the path that this took is probably, I would say 2-to-1 Republicans in the path of that,” DeSantis said.

Western North Carolina was ravaged by historic flooding after Helene dumped record rainfall on the area. 

DeSantis thought that there would be a “noticeable drop-off in the turnout” in Western North Carolina unless the state made special provisions for the voters in that area. 

He thought that absentee ballots might be delivered because of the destruction and people displaced from their homes. 

“North Carolina was decided in 2020 by one percentage point,” DeSantis explained. “This is a state that’s been very, very competitive. We don’t have the luxury of just seeing 10 or 15,000 people who otherwise would have voted not be able to vote.”

Former President Donald Trump leads Kamala by .6% in the RealClearPolitics polling average for North Carolina and by 1.5% in Georgia. 

“It’s really important that these people are able to vote,” DeSantis said. “Especially in North Carolina, I think they need to make sure that there’s accommodations so that these voters are able to have their voice heard.”

The situation on the ground in North Carolina and Georgia 

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger predicted that voting in his state would not be disrupted by the damage from Hurricane Helene. 

“What has been on everyone’s mind is what will happen to elections,” Raffensperger said. “Good news: Absentee ballots are going out this week as scheduled, and early voting will start next Tuesday, on October 15.”

North Carolina is a more complicated situation with 40,000 absentee ballots mailed to voters in counties that were declared disaster areas by the federal government. 

About 17% of the registered voters in the state live in counties that are disaster areas, or roughly 1.3 million voters. 

Election forecasting site Decision Desk HQ found that Trump won the 13 North Carolina counties that were declared disaster areas in 2020 by a 54% to 44% margin. 

It remains to be seen what impact Hurricane Helene will have on voting turnout in these crucial swing states.