Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Saturday praised a New Jersey girl for allegedly verbally attacking an election employee who requested for her to take away her Donald Trump gear simply days after a Texas man in a MAGA hat reportedly punched an aged man who made the same request whereas working at a voting location.
“What a patriot,” wrote Trump’s vice presidential decide, who quoted a publish concerning the story that’s since been deleted on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
The story stemmed from a Reddit person who took to r/Democrats, a discussion board on the social media web site, to explain a girl carrying Trump gear at a polling website, prompting employees to inform her she couldn’t put on it (it’s unlawful to put on political merchandise inside 100 ft of a voting location within the Backyard State).
“She calls one ballot employee a d*ckhead and rips her shirt off. She advised one other ballot employee to ‘suck her c**t’ and that is the explanation she votes Trump,” wrote the Reddit person, who famous {that a} “no political merch” signal was posted on the website.
“Can we please defeat these individuals?”
The alleged encounter arrives amid issues that election employees will face extra threats this yr than in years prior.
JHB has reached out to the Trump-Vance marketing campaign, which was not instantly accessible for remark early Sunday morning.
The Reddit person who described Saturday’s polling website episode additionally shared a photograph presumably of the girl, who’s proven carrying a bra and no Trump gear on the voting location.
The person wrote that they voted early with their husband at a polling website in a “purple city” and “blue county” positioned in New Jersey, in accordance with a separate publish.
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It’s unclear precisely the place the encounter befell.
Roughly 38% of native election officers have reported experiencing “threats, harassment or abuse,” whereas 62% famous that they had been nervous that politicians would attempt to intrude with employees’ jobs, in accordance with a survey reported by the Brennan Middle for Justice in Could.
Previously week, a Pennsylvania man was charged with an alleged menace to “pores and skin” and kill a state occasion official, a California man confronted expenses over the bombing of a courthouse and an Arizona man pleaded responsible to committing a terrorist act and legal harm tied to shootings at a Democratic Social gathering workplace.