The crowd at former President Trump’s rally in Georgia chanted “lock her up” about Vice President Harris on Monday, underscoring the increasingly heated tone the 2024 presidential election has taken.
“Next Tuesday, you have to stand up and you have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had a terrible, terrible run, that you’ve hurt our country very badly,” Trump said at his event in Atlanta.
Trump claimed Harris allowed murderers, drug dealers and terrorists into the country. “You’ve accepted some of the worst criminals in the world into our country. You’re going to say, ‘Please say it, sir.’ I say I will. Kamala, you’re fired. Get out of here. Get out of here,” he said, before the crowd began shouting “lock her up!”
“Be nice,” Trump said in response.
The “lock her up!” chants heard at past Trump rallies have largely referred to Hillary Clinton, whom the former president beat in 2016’s election. But the latest chants echoing a similar phrase about Harris suggest the 2024 election has hit an even more somber tone.
It’s not the first time this year that crowds have chanted for a presidential candidate to be locked up. While Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention earlier this summer about Trump and his felonies, attendees could be heard saying “lock him up!”
President Biden last week also called for Trump to be jailed before catching his slipup, adding “politically lock him up.”
The Trump campaign at the time immediately attacked Biden for his comments, with Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt saying in a statement, “Joe Biden just admitted the truth: he and Kamala’s plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can’t beat him fair and square.”
“The Harris-Biden Admin is the real threat to democracy. We call on Kamala Harris to condemn Joe Biden’s disgraceful remark,” she added.
