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.

  • orrk@lemmy.world
    43·
    11 months ago

    damn Poe’s law, I can’t tell if your serious and stupid or just making a joke.

    as I’m sitting here, with my phone made in Chinese sweatshops

    • archonet@lemy.lol
      911·
      11 months ago

      *you’re

      when calling other people stupid, it is best to know basic grammar. Just a tip!

      • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
        11·
        11 months ago

        Like capitalization of ‘When’? :D

        Aside from that, fully support your point.

        • archonet@lemy.lol
          34·
          11 months ago

          I never called him an idiot, so my grammar can be as poor as I like.

      • orrk@lemmy.world
        22·
        11 months ago

        so, I am going to conclude that you think echo dot’s take is a real argument and even support said stance.

        so why, if you look at reality, are authoritarian shitholes always the darlings of corporations.

        • archonet@lemy.lol
          44·
          11 months ago

          oh I don’t care about that, I just thought you looked like you needed the help