Dems WarGamed Fantasy Violent Election Day to Cause Armed Citizens to Attack Polling Place

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Democrats have war-gamed potential Election Day chaos that includes armed groups attacking polling places after being manipulated by Elon Musk, according to Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) in remarks to the left-wing news site MeidasTouch published Friday.

Himes threatened X social media site owner Musk, saying, “I’m looking at you here, Elon Musk…We’re watching very closely.”

Himes speculated that Musk could manipulate algorithms to spread rumors about illegal aliens voting that would provoke armed groups to attack polling places, giving President Donald Trump the opportunity to bring in federal law enforcement.

Himes, who has served in Congress since 2009, is the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Himes said the group that ran the war game included Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY), lawyers, and nonprofit groups.

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You asked me the question first. So, as the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, my job is to just be all over the possibility that of the many, many scenarios that he may choose to use on election day, one of them may be a variant of the director of the CIA has just informed me that the Iranians have taken control over the election apparatus in Michigan or North Carolina or Florida or California, whatever it might be.

Um, because of course that would be something that would be very much in the jurisdiction of the intelligence committee, I have spent the last couple of months working with our intelligence community, working with the remnants of our ability to identify such efforts to make sure that we’re ready for that. Um, and you know, Jamie can elaborate on this on the domestic side because of course the FBI and the Department of Justice are as much of a threat and there’s lots of things the president could do to create tension in the moment of, of, of of election day.

But um, I, I, I, want to finish my answer by saying um I’ve had classified briefings as recently as seventy-two hours ago. And not only have we never seen a successful effort on the part of Russia or China or or any other country to interfere with our election, that is to alter vote totals to get into voting um records to get into the voting roles. We’re not seeing any foreign country at this point planning or even with the ability to do so. Now draw a distinction, of course there they are they are doing influence operations. You know the usual garbage on social media and bots trying to influence the election. But as of now our intelligence community is seeing precisely zero evidence that any of uh, you know, Russia or China or Iran or North Korea have any intent or ability to actually mess around with the mechanics of our election.

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