By Armando Hernandez
Oct 30, 2024, 9:25 PM EDT
Former President Donald Trump and his allies begin to mention the word fraud more and more frequently and now he emphasized it in Pennsylvania.
Similar to 2020, Trump’s campaign is spreading viral videos of alleged irregularities and promising his enthusiastic supporters a legal showdown, which experts fear could be used to challenge the election results if he loses.
Trump supporters released videos of long lines in Buck County on Tuesday, Pennsylvania, where voters waited to request a mail-in ballot in person. A social media post by Trump campaign political director James Blair said a line in one area closed early around 2:30 p.m.
“This is repressive and intimidating,” Blair wrote. in a post on X seen by 1.8 million people. Elon Musk, the owner of X and a Trump supporter, responded: “Why are they doing this?”
“In Pennsylvania he is cheating on a large scale, at levels never seen before and they discovered them,” Trump declared in a message on social networks in which he encouraged his followers to “report the deceptions of the authorities.”
Pennsylvania is the hinge state with the largest population. There Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, compete for the 19 electoral votes that are at stake.
The Republican campaign complained Tuesday that the post office in Buck County had closed early despite a long line of people seeking to cast their ballots early.
County officials explained that the office prohibited people from lining up starting mid-afternoon in order to close as scheduled at 5 p.m.
However, The president of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley, announced this Wednesday that a judge agreed with them and ordered the county to extend the days to cast votes by mail.
In 2020, Trump refused to accept his defeat against Democrat Joe Biden and launched several legal disputes over alleged electoral fraud that were dismissed by the courts.
The Republican, who is accused in court for allegedly having encouraged the assault on the Capitol in 2021 to stop the transition of powers, still does not admit that he lost those elections and assures that he will only accept the results of next November 5 if the elections are ” fair”.
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