Trump Threatens to Jail Adversaries in Escalating Rhetoric Ahead of Pivotal Debate
Trump’s message represents his latest threat to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution if he wins a second term.
Trump’s message represents his latest threat to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution if he wins a second term.
“For four years, Donald Trump and his MAGA allies have been scheming to sow distrust in our elections and undermine our democracy so they can cry foul when they lose,” said Harris campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon.
“We’re going to see a widening of the playing field when it comes to influence operations, where it’s not just Russia, China and Iran but you also see smaller actors getting involved,” said Foundation for Defense of Democracies Senior Analyst Max Lesser.
“No one should lose their vote over a simple human error that has no relevance to whether or not the ballot was received on time,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Executive Director Mike Lee.
The former president’s indulgence of the conspiracy theory is among the ways Trump has embraced the far-right of his political movement.
“Another four years of Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of Project 2025, will hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions,” the signatories warn.
“Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own,” said Harris spokesman Brian Fallon.
Voters in all seven states that have had abortion questions before voters since 2022 have sided with abortion rights supporters.
A lawyer with longstanding ties to Republican candidates and causes went to court to argue that the Secretary of State’s office was wrong to reject West’s paperwork.
Election offices and those who run them have been targets of harassment and even death threats since the 2020 presidential election, primarily by people acting on former President Donald Trump’s lies that the election was stolen from him through widespread fraud or rigged voting machines.
The program allows families to apply for lawful temporary legal status without having the remove the applicant from the U.S. while waiting for permanent resident status. DHS estimates the program would benefit 550,000 noncitizen spouses and stepchildren.
Republican state lawmakers just won’t let it happen.
And how voters can use the tools of democracy to counter their plans.
The Bucks County Beacon spoke with Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s Rachel Laser about Project 2025 and Christian extremists’ efforts to take away our freedoms.