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.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    48·
    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
      15·
      1 year ago

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

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      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.

    • 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.