Alexandra Petri: The Indignation Cycle

The 2020 election was won fairly by President Joe Biden, but Trump supporters, including their hero, have baselessly cast doubt on our election process. That, in turn, has brought violence to poll workers, voter fraud has been committed on the right, and our democracy is on the brink. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner isn't messing around. NBC News reports: Donald Trump's team once again targets large, majority nonwhite cities in swing states like Pennsylvania with claims of election fraud, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner issued a warning to anyone thinking about interfering with elections in America's birthplace: "F around and find out." "If people think they're going to erase votes in Philly or terrorize people who are here to protect those votes, we've got some handcuffs, we've got some jail cells, and we've got some Philadelphia juries who want to hear why, exactly, it is that somebody thought they could erase our votes or terrorize our elections workers," Krasner, a Democrat, told NBC News in an interview Thursday, just days before the election. Krasner said that his "patriotic" team was prepared to handle any issues on Election Day and called any attempts to undermine or influence the vote in Philadelphia "utterly unacceptable." "As they say in Philly, if somebody wants to come and do that, they can F around and find out," he added.read more

Donald Trump showed excellent technique last night in Milwaukee should he ever have to use it on other world leaders, such as Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping or other autocratic favourites. Source: Huffington Post Donald Trump used apparent technical issues during a campaign rally on Friday to attack those working the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “You got to be kidding?

Donald J. Trump told Tucker Carlson in Arizona of his violent fantasy about Liz Cheney yesterday, and it was psychotic. The disgraced former President said, "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face." Nice, huh? Well, Arizona's top prosecutor is investigating whether Trump violated state law by making a "death threat." 12News reports: "I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona's laws," Attorney General Mayes, a first-term Democrat, said during Friday's taping of "Sunday Square Off." "I'm not prepared now to say whether it was or it wasn't, but it is not helpful as we prepare for our election and as we try to make sure that we keep the peace at our polling places and in our state." Trump tried to walk back his violent rhetoric on Truth Social, and it doesn't make sense.

In a weird moment, conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt ripped off his headset and stormed off the set of the Washington Post First Look podcast because Jonathan Capehart didn't care for being lectured over journalistic integrity by the right wing blowhard. Ruth Marcus is also a member of the podcast team as the discussion turned to Trump and voting in Pennsylvania where Trump has been littering the grounds with voter fraud allegations already. Capehart said it appeared Trump was laying the groundwork for election fraud nonsense by claiming cheating was already happening in Pennsylvania. Hugh Hewitt used a Republican victory to extend voting for another day in Bucks County and claimed that proved Trump had a right to complain. That was not the case.

NEW YORK — The 2024 presidential contest speeds into its final weekend with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump locked in a razor-thin contest. At this late stage in the campaign, every day matters. And while few voters might change their minds this late in a typical election, there is a sense that what happens in these final days could shift votes. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Harris and Trump are crisscrossing the country to rally voters in the states that matter most.

After serving in the U. S. Senate for four terms, people often ask me about how I think about this coming Presidential election. My answer: in a troubled world with lots of moving parts including multiple major wars and danger zones from the Middle East to Ukraine to Sudan to North Korea as well as nine nuclear weapon states, I will cast my vote primarily on national security concerns.