Philly DA warns jail cells are ready for anyone who tries to mess with city's vote
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner warns Donald Trump's supporters against trying to undermine voters in the city's 2024 election.
WASHINGTON — As 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.
A man demonstrates in favor of letting all ballots be counted on Nov. 6, 2020, in front of the Convention Center in Philadelphia.Jennifer Huxta / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileThe City of Brotherly Love, which has been majority Democrat since the 1960s, has long been a target of Republicans and former President Donald Trump, who in 2016 became the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since George H.W. Bush's election in 1988.
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