A Republican state senator has called for “civil war” if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.

George Lang, an Ohio politician, made the comment as he introduced JD Vance at his first solo campaign event since becoming Trump’s running mate.

After taking to the stage fist-raised and shouting Trump’s post-shooting battle cry “Fight! Fight!”, Mr Lang warned of an existential threat facing Americans. He declared in front of a large, heated crowd in Ohio: “We are in the fight for the soul of our nation… for our kids, for our grandkids, it is a fight we can never imagine.

“I believe wholeheartedly, Donald Trump and Butler County’s JD Vance are the last chance to save our country. Politically, I’m afraid if we lose this one, it’s going to take a civil war to save the country.”

Video of the speech

    • at_an_angle@lemmy.one
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      4 months ago

      Dude, I live in one and very left.

      I don’t want that… wait, would that mean my taxes would go down?

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        4 months ago

        Unless you’re wealthy, you probably not. If anything, they’ll probably go up for all the money they’re not taking from the wealthy

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          4 months ago

          thats the best case. more likely being dragged into a war to die to protect the wealthy… just like the first civil war…