Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to "go into" Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to "guard the vote" in 2024, repeating his unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 as justification for the call to action.

Speaking at a campaign event in Iowa, Trump said it was important to scrutinize the vote in the battleground states likely to determine the general election. He singled out the biggest cities in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

“So the most important part of what’s coming up is to guard the vote. And you should go into Detroit and you should go into Philadelphia and you should go into some of these places, Atlanta,” Trump said in Ankeny, a suburb of Des Moines.

Trump’s comments foreshadow what is likely to be a contentious election in November 2024. Despite the failure of dozens of lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies challenging the outcome in 2020, Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that he lost to U.S. President Joe Biden due to fraud.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
    322·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been a poll watcher in PA a bunch of times. I welcome any Trumpies to join me. It’s really not that exciting lol

    • Neato@kbin.social
      472·
      1 year ago

      Depends on your state’s laws. But peaceful dudes in red caps are not what people are worried about. They are groups of aggressive people, potentially visibly armed, near to polling places or mail-in boxes that will scare voters away. If you have to walk past a line of lifted pick-up trucks, all with huge Trump flags in the backed, filled with angry redcaps with assault rifles, you might rethink voting. Which is the goal of the facists.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
        152·
        1 year ago

        Sure, but I’m talking about the legal way we “guard the vote”. It’s incredibly effective and not super exciting.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        If you have to walk past a line of lifted pick-up trucks, all with huge Trump flags in the backed, filled with angry redcaps with assault rifles, you might rethink voting. Which is the goal of the facists.

        Or it might make me want to vote against their asshole lord and savior even more resolutely than I already do.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          It’s a fight or flight response. Not everyone would be willing to fight. Glad you would be though. But if enough intimidation happens, They might just scare away enough people to change the vote.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        108·
        1 year ago

        I’ll be there. And I will be armed as well. If it’s a bloodbath that ends in my extinction? So be it. I will not stand for such a scenario as you describe.

        Struggling to live with myself after 01/06 as is. Give me a chance to fight back? I’m all in.

    • Uranium3006@kbin.social
      322·
      1 year ago

      You’re missing the point. Trump’s calling on th to show up with guns and intimate minority voters

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      526·
      1 year ago

      look, I know, you find annoying them with pictures of fake grand kids amusing… but really… could you at least maybe make the stories more interesting, since, you know. it’s gonna be slow…

      asking for everyone else.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          1 year ago

          you ever get stuck sitting next to a very friendly old lady whose got about thirty pictures of her grand kids, and insists on telling you everything about what happened the day they were taken?

          I’m proposing torturing the trumpian poll watchers with such… as a for of entertainment, because poll watching is really boring. Like. watching paint dry boring.

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I missed it too, but I think I want to start showing people pics of my “grandkids”. Maybe get some hyper realistic ai pics and backstory…

          I just want to watch people get confused and try to do the math while also trying to figure out how old I am