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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.

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[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sure they do. You might only be a fraction of their profits, but those profits are made up of millions of fractions.

So how much of that are you comfortable donating to the Republican party, currently represented by Donald Trump and in the middle of attacking womens rights and the LGBT+ community?

It looks like if you bought a gun in 2022, around a dollar of your money most likely ended up in a Republicans election fund.

Of course, much more of your money would have gone towards legally opposing the red flag laws that should have prevented multiple mass shootings by far-right extremists, all of which are now openly celebrated in neo-nazi chat rooms.

But I'm sure you're going to undo all of that damage by parading around a polling place with a gun, which you haven't actually said you'd be doing and would accomplish nothing except further repressing votes.

You sure do help fascists a lot for someone who ostensibly opposes them. "Murdering minorities" and "preventing people from voting" are their two favourite activities in the whole world and you've given them guns, funding and aid they need to do both.