The Republican candidate for the White House, the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021), this Tuesday fueled rumors of a “massive” electoral fraud in Philadelphia, which local authorities were quick to deny.
“There are a lot of comments about massive CHEATING in Philly. “The police are coming!!!” said the New York tycoon on his social network, Truth Social.
Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania, the most important hinge state of the seven that could decide this Tuesday’s presidential election because it distributes 19 of the 270 Electoral College delegates necessary for Trump or the vice president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, to be declared the winner.
The Philadelphia Police Department said it was not aware of the alleged events reported by Trump. As he told CNN, They were not aware of any problems with the vote that required police action.
This same Tuesday, the Republican Party indicated in a statement that when the voting centers opened in Philadelphia in the morning, “four court-appointed Republican election workers were blocked from the process and illegally expelled.”
“This is a crime and should not happen in a fair and secure election,” said the group, for whom what happened “is an unacceptable violation of public trust, which undermines transparency in Philadelphia elections.”
Later, Trump himself reported that all Republican poll workers They had been able to access the polling stations to observe the voting.
The party said “be fighting to protect the vote in Philadelphia and across the country” and noted that “refusing to allow Republicans into the room threatens the integrity and security of Pennsylvania’s elections.”
Trump and prominent members of the Republican leadership still do not recognize the results of 2020, in which Joe Biden won, and from the beginning of the current electoral cycle they have advanced that they would only recognize the outcome if they considered that the process has been fair and transparent.