Trump refused to provide disaster relief for Calif due to the state's Democratic lean

Mark Harvey, senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council during the Trump administration, said in a Politico article published Thursday that

Then-POTUS Trump refused to provide disaster relief
for Calif due to the state's Democratic lean ​

the former POTUS only decided to provide relief after Harvey showed Trump that Orange County, ravaged by wildfires in 2018, had a larger number of Trump supporters than the entire state of Iowa,

"We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas ... to show him these are people who voted for MAGA," Harvey said.