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.

  • twisted28@lemmy.world
    155·
    7 months ago

    Facing 91 charges, he will, without a doubt, be in jail. There will be enough confusion to split the Republican vote, or the MAGA crowd may stay home entirely. Don’t fall for the hopium he is peddling, it’s his only way to cope with losing everything he owns.

    • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
      82·
      7 months ago

      Trump will never see the inside of a jail cell. FFS, he was immune to prosecution while he was president. I’m sure somehow he’s immune to incarceration as an ex-president.

    • Wutangforemer@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      Not by election day, 0% chance. The only Federal case expected to wrap and sentence by that time is the Jan 6 case, and he’ll appeal that to federal appeals court and again to Supreme Court. Documents case doesn’t even start until August. State cases are yielding to the federal case schedules.

      • teamevil@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        From your lips to God’s ear but until we get there I’m not stopping… This fucking monster will absolutely destroy the country like every business he’s ever touched.