Trump said recently Nov. 5th, 2024 will be, “THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA”. He can’t be referring to people voting for him, right? He specifically requested they stay home on election day.
This statement was posted by Trump on his website on 10/13/21, though I cannot find it anymore as they kept changing the URL, but now it seems they may have removed it altogether. You can still find references to it on other platforms if you search for the date and contents (e.g., the Washington Post).
EDIT: Found courtesy of the Wayback Machine (at least the internet never forgets).
NOTE: I posted this in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, but it was taken down. I think someone should change their sidebar so it doesn’t specifically say, “anything and everything goes”, but whatevs. Someone commented on that post before it was taken down that it was a ‘clickbait’ title. It is not, it is literally what Trump said.
Exactly, that seems like the reasonable reading of the statement to me
But since it is worded so poorly, you can just as easily assume the other interpretation is correct as well, e.g., it’s ‘the most important thing’ because not voting will ‘send a message’ that Republicans refuse to participate in a ‘broken election system’. He also said ‘will not be voting’ instead of potentially making the message clearer with different wording like ‘will not be able to vote’, so that makes not voting sound like an intentional choice Republicans should make.