Philadelphia’s district attorney sent a stern message to anyone trying to interfere with voters on Election Day, warning them to “seek and find out.”
In 2020, two men were arrested for allegedly bringing an AR-15 and a samurai sword to a vote counting center in Philadelphia.
This year, on the eve of the election, Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner took time from his failed lawsuit against Elon Musk to discuss voting protections.
‘I also want to be clear. Anyone who thinks it’s time to play militia, look it up and find out. Anyone who thinks it’s time to insult, abuse or threaten people, look and find out,” said Krasner, one of the progressive prosecutors funded by billionaire George Soros.
He clarified that the city, which leans heavily Democratic and is likely part of Kamala Harris’ strategy to try to defeat Donald Trump in the swing state of Pennsylvania, has no “deep and abiding fears or concerns” that such a thing would happen. .
Philadelphia’s district attorney sent a profane message to anyone trying to interfere with voters on Election Day, challenging them to “search and find out.”
He clarified that the city, which leans heavily Democratic and is likely part of Kamala Harris’ strategy to try to defeat Donald Trump in the swing state of Pennsylvania, has no “deep and abiding fears or concerns” that such a thing would happen. .
However, he made a firm promise to deal with anyone who planned to interfere with the vote, in contrast to his reputation as a progressive, soft-on-crime prosecutor.
“We have a pair of handcuffs, we have a cell and we have a jury in Philadelphia,” he said.
He made it clear that he was referring to agitators who raised false challenges to the vote.
“Anyone who thinks that you are going to play those games in Philadelphia, you will do it in bad faith, I have no problem doing it in good faith, but if you do it in bad faith, there are “In an electoral court there are judges, they have orders,” he stated.
Krasner tried to emphasize the bipartisan nature of the people who would potentially try to stop people from voting.
‘We don’t care who gets your vote. We care that you can vote. That’s the most important thing,” Krasner said.
Joshua Macias, 42, of Chesapeake, Virginia, and Antonio Lamotta, 61, of the same city, were detained two nights after Election Day 2020, Philadelphia police said.
Macías founded Vets for Trump in 2016; Lamotta is a member.
Krasner made a firm promise to deal with anyone who planned to interfere with the vote, in contrast to his reputation as a progressive, soft-on-crime prosecutor.
Joshua Macias (pictured right), 42, of Chesapeake, Virginia, and Antonio Lamotta (pictured left), 61, of the same city, were arrested two nights after the day of the 2020 election, Philadelphia police said.
Danielle Outlaw, then Philadelphia police commissioner, said at a news conference that the FBI had been informed that individuals were heading from Virginia Beach to Philadelphia with weapons.
They were arrested outside the Philadelphia Convention Center where vote counting was taking place.
Joe Biden had not yet been declared the winner in the Keystone State over Donald Trump.
They were told that a man, his mother and another person were traveling to the Philadelphia region to “straighten things out” while vote counting continued.
Americans brace for civil unrest amid terrifying predictions of “bloodshed” during Tuesday’s presidential election, which appears to hinge on results in just seven swing states, reviving painful memories of recent assassination attempts and chaos after the 2020 vote.
The 2024 race has already seen bloodshed, with the July 13 shooting at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing the former president and leaving one attendee dead and two more injured.
The race has also been marred by condemnatory rhetoric between rival campaigns. A speaker at a Trump rally recently spoke of the “massacre” of Democrats, and Trump himself has spoken of “shooting” former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney.
Meanwhile, Harris has called Trump a “threat” to democracy who must be defeated at the polls, while her boss, outgoing President Joe Biden, has called the MAGA Republican’s supporters “trash.”
A Trump supporter, left, confronts a Harris fan outside a Tim Walz event in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, last week.
Meanwhile, the specter of January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, seeking to overturn the former president’s election loss to Biden, has cast a long shadow over American politics.
This time around, Trump has repeatedly refused to declare whether he will accept the election results, and is already alleging fraud and cheating in swing states like Pennsylvania, setting the stage for what many fear will be more unrest.
Tensions rose Monday as Trump and his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, made their latest attempt to woo voters, hours before polling stations opened Tuesday in a tight race revolving around a handful of voting fields. electoral battle.
Election prediction website 538 slightly favors Trump to win the White House, with a 52 percent chance to Harris’ 48 percent, but for many commentators the race is more or less a tie.
