“I trust Donald Trump, not the government,” said a 38-year-old Republican from Gulfport, Mississippi. “That’s it.”
No Democrat has won the White House without Pennsylvania since 1948.
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.
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
