House Freedom Caucasians chair Maryland Congressman Andy Harris tells the AP he was “taken out of context” when he said Thursday that Republican North Carolina state lawmakers should simply award the state’s 16 Electoral College votes to convicted felon former President Trump because of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in the heavily red western areas of the state.

The context was literally Congressman Harris saying “I mean, you statistically can go and say: ‘Hey, look, you’ve got disenfranchised in 25 counties. You know what that vote probably would have been, which would be, if I were in the legislature, enough to go: Yeah, we’ve got to convene the legislature, and we can’t disenfranchise the voters. But how do you make the argument in other states? I mean, otherwise, it looks like it’s just a power play… With North Carolina, I mean, it’s legitimate. I mean, there are a lot of people who aren’t going to get to vote, and it may make the difference in that state,” in response to “Stop the Steal” conspiracy freak Ivan Raiklin saying that Republican-majority legislatures in North Carolina and other blue/purple states should automatically give Trump a win.

Meaning was very much in context, as Harris was saying Raiklin should pump the brakes on pushing Republicans in New Hampshire, Arizona, Nebraska, Georgia, and Wisconsin to hand them to Trump by default. But with North Carolina was totally in agreement because of “disenfranchisement.”