Pennsylvania
Trump is encouraging Pennsylvania state lawmakers to repeal mail-in voting law
Reporting by Robert Costa
Behind the scenes, a key ally says that former President Donald Trump is encouraging state lawmakers in Pennsylvania to repeal Act 77, the legislation that enables all voters within the state to forged ballots by mail, an effort that reveals that he’s working behind the scenes to have an effect on the 2022 midterm elections.
On Sept. 6, there was a gathering in Trump Tower with Trump and key allies about the way to urge Pennsylvania state Republicans to overturn or repeal Act 77, in accordance with veteran political strategist and longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo, who participated within the assembly. The legislation, handed in 2019, allows “no excuse” mail-in voting and was upheld by the state Supreme Courtroom earlier this 12 months. The gathering was first reported by the information website Semafor and additional particulars have been reported by Rolling Stone.
Trump, who misplaced Pennsylvania to President Joe Biden by 81,660 votes, attacked and discouraged mail-in voting in 2020 in remarks and tweets: There’s “NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-in Ballots might be something lower than considerably fraudulent,” one tweet learn.
Caputo said that he and others who’re engaged on repealing Act 77 requested the assembly with Trump. The previous president agreed to see them and was encouraging, Caputo added.
“Trump’s message within the September 2022 assembly was that [Pennsylvania] state legislators must act now, or else we can have no excuse mail-in balloting lengthy into the long run,” Caputo instructed CBS Information. “What can [Trump] do? As head of the Republican Social gathering, he could make telephone calls, speak to individuals.”
Caputo stated Trump is repeatedly speaking to allies in Pennsylvania about their push to alter election legislation and stated he retains shut tabs on state legislative developments, and known as Trump’s efforts “encouraging” and energetic.
Democrats voted in far greater numbers by mail in Pennsylvania in 2020: over 2.6 million voted by mail in 2020 — 1.7 million have been Democrats and about 623,000 have been Republicans.
A man was tased by police after attempting to enter the press area of a Donald Trump rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Friday.
The failed storming of the press corral came after Trump criticized CNN’s interview with Kamala Harris as overly deferential, according to the Associated Press. In a video shared by CBS News’ Taureen Small, the man can be seen climbing the riser before being pulled down by a gaggle of sheriff’s deputies.
In the clip, Trump supporters can be heard jeering the man, with one attendee shouting, “Cut his head off.” Attendees also cheered when police escorted the man away, leading the president to remark from the stage “Is there anywhere that’s more fun to be than a Trump rally?”
Trump’s comments follow his campaign’s line of attack against the interview, which drew 6 million viewers to the cable news outlet. Senior campaign adviser Jason Miller told Newsmax earlier this week that Harris didn’t “look presidential.”
“There’s a certain threshold that you have to meet,” he said. “Can you lead this country? Other candidates in the past have had it. I don’t see that with Kamala Harris.”
The former president’s speech was full of inflammatory language directed at Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. He repeatedly referred to the vice president as “Comrade Kamala” and told attendees that she wants to “outlaw your car and truck and force you to buy electric vehicles” as part of a “radical left war on Pennsylvania.”
Trump worked blue at certain points throughout the rally, which was held less than 80 miles from the site of a rally where he was nearly assassinated in July. He told the crowd that “every place [Harris] has touched has turned to s**t.”
A chaotic scene—and police intervention—played out during Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, just 75 miles from the town of Butler, where a would-be assassin shot at the former president last month, killing one rallygoer and injuring two others.
As Trump spoke onstage, a man in the audience attempted to enter the cordoned-off press pen, according to multiple reports and videos from the scene. The individual was able to breach a barrier of bicycle racks surrounding the pen, and was climbing a riser on which reporters and cameramen were stationed when he was tackled and subdued by security officers and law enforcement officials, who eventually tased him.
Law enforcement officers detain a rallygoer who tried to climb onto the press riser during a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 30, 2024.
Brian Snyder/Reuters
The unnamed man was subsequently taken into custody, the Johnstown Police Department told the Daily Beast on Friday night, but has subsequently been released. No information concerning his identity or potential motive has yet been made public; speculation on social media has presented him as either an incensed Trump supporter or a radicalized counter-protester. Pick your poison!
(The Daily Beast has reached out to the Johnstown Police Department and the Cambria County Sheriff’s Department for further comment.)
At the time of the incident, Trump was criticizing the media for its coverage of his campaign and the election more broadly—and, in particular, attacking CNN’s recent interview with his opponent, Kamala Harris.
As the man was detained and removed from the rally, the former president quipped, “Is there anywhere that’s more fun to be than a Trump rally?” per the Associated Press.
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