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.

      • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
        2•1 year ago

        So is anyone planning to arm up and defend the voting stations against inevitable violent fascist redneck pieces of treasonous dog shit?

        Nice one clown.

        You have the cure for fascism (guns) and have fixed it (despite not shooting any fascists), but somehow still need to use your guns (that you’ve never used) to stop the fascists (that you’ve fixed) from intimidating people out of voting against their canditate (who is also a fascist) by killing them (which is “a good thing”, that you’ve never done).

        If you weren’t selling guns, you’d be selling healing crystals.

            • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
              1•1 year ago

              I absolutely adore that you replied to your own “have you had a stroke?” comment.

              And of course in a plot twist to shock nobody, you’ve told yourself to further increase the profits of the gun lobby.

              I guess if you just donated to Republicans directly you wouldn’t get a new toy to play make believe with.

                • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
                  1•1 year ago

                  Sure they do. You might only be a fraction of their profits, but those profits are made up of millions of fractions.

                  So how much of that are you comfortable donating to the Republican party, currently represented by Donald Trump and in the middle of attacking womens rights and the LGBT+ community?

                  It looks like if you bought a gun in 2022, around a dollar of your money most likely ended up in a Republicans election fund.

                  Of course, much more of your money would have gone towards legally opposing the red flag laws that should have prevented multiple mass shootings by far-right extremists, all of which are now openly celebrated in neo-nazi chat rooms.

                  But I’m sure you’re going to undo all of that damage by parading around a polling place with a gun, which you haven’t actually said you’d be doing and would accomplish nothing except further repressing votes.

                  You sure do help fascists a lot for someone who ostensibly opposes them. “Murdering minorities” and “preventing people from voting” are their two favourite activities in the whole world and you’ve given them guns, funding and aid they need to do both.