Law enforcement officers are preparing for a different kind of election day threat: armed people at polls. Former DHS Secretary and former governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge, joins Stephanie Ruhle to explain why President Trump needs to tell his supporters to back off for the sake of local law enforcement. Aired on 10/20/2020.
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Fmr. DHS Secy. To Trump On Poll Watchers: Call Off The Dogs | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC
Donald Trump is killing America
@Reg U and you squeaked little mouse. Now change your diaper.
@Gary Quarty Hmm…
So are wars and famine.
Your point … is ?
Trump hates America and Americans
@Erica Espinosa no. You do.
@Gary Quarty thumbs up 👍 for your stupidity
Heavy influx of BOTs for the next two weeks. Don’t give them your attention.
It’s insanity. I’ve given up even responding. Except for🖕🏼.
Don won’t call off the dogs because that’s not his “style.” Also, most of his dogs are “rabid mongrels.” Vote ByeDon!
Only in your delusions. But I hear midol and a fresh kotex helps tdspms.
@Alexander Wilms try looking at who are the rabid dogs, we arent the ones burning and looting like demwits and lefties. We arent the ones threatening violence like Nancy Pelosi.
@Mel Gillham recently created troll account.
@Alexander Wilms recently created troll account.
Send in the Hounds when 45 can’t accept that he lost!
A desperate t’rump is truly a sad pathetic t’rump.
Good thing Trump isnt desperate. But Democrats are..
@wing Man not in your lifetime.
@Jeffery Blake too bad your MSLSD fix has you delusional. And the only ones here that idolize the nazis is Democrats, they created the kkk, and have historically voted against civil rights..
@Mel Gillham wrong again oh being full of conservative garbage. Now crawl back to your master and finish licking those boots.
@Jeffery Blake we arent like you sheeple. Now do your masters bidding little slave.
Hate crimes increase in the US since Trump’s election
NEWSBY POLITICS TODAY
July 22, 2019
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent U.S. civil rights group said it has identified 900 incidents of harassment following Trump’s election to the presidency. SPLC outlines that Trump’s rhetoric and actions have affected U.S. society.

President Donald Trump speaks during a Keep America Great rally on July 17, 2019 in Greenville, North Carolina. Trump is speaking in North Carolina only hours after The House of Representatives voted down an effort from a Texas Democrat to impeach the President. Getty Images
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn President Trump’s racist tweets against 4 Democratic congresswomen.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib have been critical of Trump’s harsh immigration policies. Trump tweeted on Sunday that the four congresswomen should “go back” to where they came from.
Before the vote, Representative John Lewis, a democrat and civil rights leader, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the 60s, called on members of Congress to do “the right thing” and condemn the president’s words.
“The world is watching. They are shocked and dismayed because it seems we have lost our way as a proud and dignified people,” 79-year-old Lewis said.
“I know racism when I see it. I know racism when I feel it. And it has no place in the highest levels of our government,” Lewis added.
The measure, the first House rebuke of a president in more than 100 years, passed by 240 to 187, after one of the most polarizing disputes the floor has witnessed in recent times.
Raucous crowds chanted “Send her back!” as Trump held his first campaign rally since announcing his 2020 re-election bid.
“I am where I belong, at the people’s house and you’re just gonna have to deal!” Ilhan Omar tweeted, alongside a photo of her presiding over the House chamber.
The US representative was welcomed by a crowd of people at the airport with cheers and support as she returns to Minnesota on Thursday.
“We’ve heard it before throughout our history, but it has no place in America in 2019,” former Vice-President Joe Biden tweeted. “It’s clear that Donald Trump is trying to divide us by race and gender. It’s immortal.”
He praised immigrants as an example of “what makes America great,” while adding: “Donald Trump thinks our nation’s great diversity makes us weak – because he has no idea what makes us great.”
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@E Hole and you need new material.. and a pair of balls..
@E Hole try recently created, you’re the troll princess. Stop wearing your thong sideways, you have enough brain damage.
@E Hole Your obviously the troll. Calling everybody who dont agree with your BS a troll.
80% of “hate crimes” are hoaxes.
@E Hole
Hunter in China with his lying dad
https://youtu.be/JRmlcEBAiIs
They shouldn’t have to wait for hours!’
I am in New Zealand , I early voted last week , took my ancient mother in her wheelchair . I parked on a P5 zone outside the polling booth , my brother and I helped mother into her chair , went in , all three of us voted and were back in the car before the 5 minutes had elapsed . The main polling day was , as always a Saturday .
Most don’t have to. I got my ballot in the mail, filled it out, signed it, and dropped it off at a local drop box. Got a text notification that it was received and counted.
It’s how the republican party has always won is they would remove ballot boxes from around poorer areas and put polling stations miles apart. Look at Texas the governor took away drop boxes and only left one per county. Knowing Texas what drop boxes were left they probably went through and tossed away a lot of Democratic ballots. Most of the cheating doesn’t work now because people are sick of this crooked administration and are willing to walk for miles and stand in line all day to vote.
@David Sk8er Ah that’s true. I guess it depends on where you’re at. I’m in Cali so it was easier. Although a few days later I found out that the GOP had been setting up fake drop boxes in my county and other counties, but luckily I dropped it off at an official one. But yeah, just goes to show how desperate they are.
Comparing trump supporters to dogs is an insult to dogs…
@Mel Gillham recently created troll account.
@E Hole grow a pair princess.
@Anna It would be nice if you did some research. The richest people in the world are all Democrats. The richest people in Congress are all Democrats. I would like to hear your response.Follow the money it is all evil just like your party who buys the main stream media and pollutes you with Misinformation
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Comparing you to anything intelligent enough to vote is an insult to everything. https://youtu.be/JRmlcEBAiIs
That’s how stupid you are
I’d rather be an American than a Trump supporter…..but you can’t be both
@William H
Replubicians against trump
Licoln Project against trump
Independents against trump.
Country 🇺🇸 over Party.
🗳 him (trump) out 2020
🗳 🔮💙🔮💙🔮💙🔮💙
💙🔮 Biden/Harris 2020💙🔮
@Gina Mazyck The Democrats are finished 😆
tinyurl.com/y2lvvf75 🌊
Well said 👏
Kim
@Jeffery Blake 😂
@William H ain’t gonna happen little comrade, bur then you would have to leave moms basement and interact with real people. But then facts never slowed down your delusions. Trump = tre45on.
vote for inclusion and unity…
vote for integrity and civility…
vote for common sense and medical science…
vote for basic human decency…
We always voted for the Constitution before. Why does that need to change to cure your hurt feelings?
It’s NOT a good thing to see people “lined up for hours to vote”. It’s indicative of a big problem with the process,
@Jeff Gibson you are living in your own delusional world.
@E Hole <
Anything handled by the government is a slow pace.
And stupid people want their health care taken care of by the government .
DMV, and Social Security offices have long wait too.
At Walmart I can self checkout in 2 minutes.
Universal health care is a joke
@David Sk8er Typical name-calling. No content.
@Jeff Gibson I’m nice I should get my little sister to call you names. You can dish out names but you can’t take it.
“A century and a half after Gettysburg, we should consider again what can happen when equal justice is denied and when anger and violence and division are left unchecked,” Biden@ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
@Reg U you misspelled “acquitted” you’re welcome.
@Mel Gillham LMOA
Say’s the ” Grammar Cop”.
@Reg U its LMAO there comrade… 😂🤣
@Mel Gillham if he’s elected to a second term which i highly doubt he’ll be doubleyl impeached and removed to rikers Island with his fellow pedos and rapists
@CmUrC 190 they got nothing but mouth, the first time didnt go well for them. And likely if they try again, they’ll end up in Leavenworth themselves. Heres a clue, they swore an oath, they can be held accountable to the ucmj for that oath. And it wont be simple civilian charges, itll be treason.
It’s the darkest time in the US in decades. Vote them all out.
Absolutely. The USofA has never been closer to fascist takeover than right now. I just had a trump supporter call FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT a fascist and that trump is doing gods work LMAO!!!
This is the ignorance we are up against.
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BIDEN HARRIS 2020 💙💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸☮️✌️
@Marv3L G33K recently created troll account.
@E Hole LMAO😂😂😂😂
@Marv3L G33K
I already Voted joe Biden 🇺🇸
Tom Ridge makes sense. I bet he’s voting for Joe Biden.
@Mel Gillham Oh, excellent retort!
@John DiGiacomo neither have you genius. Now let’s do hunter Biden and the laptop that has his and daddies criminal acts on it..
@John DiGiacomo not to mention you cant debate to begin with.
@Jo B depends on your level of intelligence, usually we have to work down to your level..
@Mel Gillham 😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪🤪 Errrr, yeah……whatever helps you through the day!
Polls mean nothing absolutley nothing, it matters that you vote but even more important who you vote for.
The people’s votes? Electoral votes is what will decide, I know it’s stupid, but that is the way it is. Remember HILLARY and Al?
vote blue all the way to stop the madness
I and alot of other folks voted blue today. 🇺🇸
just did!
Donnie isnt going to tell them to back off. Go Blue
I don’t like presidents that encourages his cult to start a civil war if he loses!! BYEDON!!
@Mel Gillham TROLL
Civil war? Russia and China are about to nuke America for its leftist war against asians and whites!
@Mel Gillham In what what planet? Oh…right….in. Anti American Trumpland
@Erica Espinosa that’s the USA to you cupcake. And were pro Trump ya traitor.
@Erica Espinosa and try harder, you might actually say something relevant one day.. as it is quid pro pedo China Ukraine joe is done with hunters laptop and emails being corroborated.
People with assault rifles at the voting sites should be arrested and sent to prison emediatly
They should be murdered on the spot if people fear for their lives.
Why didn’t we get rid of the Electoral College? Democracy is one person, one vote. Governors need to ban guns at polling places and state houses. That intimidation is domestic terrorism.
I don’t like a president that encourages the crazies to help suppress votes.