Political strategist Stuart Stevens suggested former President Donald Trump’s followers could end up burning down voting centers to disrupt the upcoming election.
Stevens, a Lincoln Project advisor and former Mitt Romney campaign advisor, joined MSNBC’s Chris Jansing on Tuesday to discuss potential “havoc” in the upcoming presidential election and concerns about fraud in light of Trump’s longheld claim 2020 was stolen, despite no actual evidence of the widespread fraud he references.
Stevens claimed concerns among Trump supporters about potential election fraud are “100% about race” because they center on diverse cities in swing states.
“It has been from the beginning. Where are all these suspect votes? Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta. What do they have in common? High percentage of African American voters. Those that voted not to certify those elections were basically trying to disenfranchise millions and millions of Black voters. It’s that simple,” he said.
The strategist went on to claim Trump supporters could turn to violence and perhaps even “burn down” voting centers to create chaos and disrupt the election. Stevens said people should “anticipate” such behavior.
“You know, they can’t stop Blacks from voting anymore the way they did in the ’60s with the same kind of success, though with these voter challenges they’re going to try, and I think what is really to fear here is put yourself in the mindset that if the Trump campaign really doesn’t think it can win, either the popular vote or Electoral College,” Stevens said. “You look at this campaign, it makes no sense. He’s not trying to add voters. What they want to do is they want to win the election night until the inauguration. And if they can go in, and they can violently disrupt these counting centers, how will states be able to certify elections? You burn down a county center in Arizona, how does the governor certify those elections? What world are we in then?”
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