President Donald Trump warned Pennsylvania voters on Thursday if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is elected in the upcoming November election, chaos will ensue in their towns.
Trump held his rally outside of Mariotti Building Products in Old Forge just outside Biden’s birthplace of Scranton.
He challenged voters to reflect on the violence erupting in cities across the country as a result of protests.
“If you want a vision of your life under Biden presidency, think of the smoldering ruins in Minneapolis, the violent anarchy of Portland, the bloodstained sidewalks of Chicago, and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in America,” Trump said.
He added, “You’re not going to have law and order.”
Watch his remarks below:
Trump: "If you want a vision of your life under Biden presidency, think of the smoldering ruins of Minneapolis, the violent anarchy of Portland, the bloodstained sidewalks of Chicago, and imagine the mayhem coming to your town." pic.twitter.com/EfoZOKFd7V
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This is not the first time Trump suggested a Biden presidency would lead to an unsafe America.
During a fundraiser with Florida sheriffs on July 31, he blamed Biden and “the radical left’s campaign against law enforcement” for violent crime in “Democrat-run cities all across the nation,” as IJR previously reported.
Trump argued “chaos and bloodshed will spread to every community” in the nation if Biden is elected.
Several cities continue to experience unrest among protesters.
Riot police and swat teams in Georgia, Michigan, and Oregon were called in on Saturday as fights broke out among right-wing demonstrators and leftist counter-protesters, as IJR previously reported.
On Wednesday, Portland police declared a riot after calling a protest near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building an unlawful assembly.
After police caught protesters lighting fires, throwing rocks, and breaking windows at county government offices on Tuesday night, they declared a riot.
Protests began to erupt after George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, was killed on May 25 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.