Trump calls federal response to Helene 'terrible' during Fayetteville town hall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "During a town hall with supporters in Fayetteville on Friday night, Trump also praised billionaire Elon Musk, a major supporter of his campaign, for providing Starlink satellite systems to Western North Carolina.
60% : The Carlsons said they're only recently starting to be vocal about their support for Trump.
57% : Trump has won North Carolina twice, but by only 1.3 percentage points in 2020.
55% : also wanted Trump to talk "about the hurricane and the way it's being handled.
50% : On Thursday, Trump said in a social media post that he plans to visit Western North Carolina next week, but said he hasn't set the date because he doesn't "want to do anything that's going to interrupt their rescue efforts.
48% : "Trump also praised Musk at length for providing his company's Starlink systems to restore some internet and cellular access to the western part of the state, where connectivity has been severely limited, if not nearly nonexistent, since the storm swept through the region a week ago.
45% : "Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin, meanwhile, said people won't be able to afford Trump's economic policy, equating his proposed tariffs on other countries to tax increases on working families.
29% : U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who moderated the event, also repeated a claim Trump made earlier this week without providing any evidence, that Republican-leaning areas of the state impacted by Helene had been deliberately neglected.
14% : Later that day, Biden told reporters that Trump was lying, and said that it was "simply not true" and "irresponsible.
13% : What Trump supporters said at the town hallJoan and Dave Carlson, a military family from Fayetteville, hoped Trump would say something about the devastation in Western North Carolina.
11% : "Trump made a similar claim Monday about North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Biden.
3% : "Federal response to Helene 'terrible,' Trump saysTrump said the federal government had done a "rotten" and "terrible job" of responding to the hurricane.
2% : "State Sen. Val Applewhite, a Fayetteville Democrat, said Trump was "coming here to spread more of his dangerous lies, just like his running mate JD Vance who this week refused to admit Trump lost in 2020.

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