Carlson also suggested on the September 28 edition of his show that Klobuchar was politicizing the storm and further misconstrued her words, saying that she “announced on television that only if we had given her a lot more power, hurricanes wouldn’t happen, because it turns out that Amy Klobuchar and her friends control the weather if only you’d vote for them.”
On September 30, as public officials assessed the catastrophic devastation Hurricane Ian caused to large swaths of southwest Florida, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked to discuss global socioeconomic disparities in climate change impact during the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum. As part of her response, Harris remarked: “It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own…