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Mike Huckabee Says if Trump Doesn’t Win the Next Election Will Be Decided by Violence

He said it on his show on the Christian network TBN.

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Now, I know that Southern Baptists are known to get a little fiery. But Mike Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas and a failed Republican presidential candidate, really took it to another level.

On his Trinity Broadcasting Network show, named after himself of course, Huckabee made a terrifying claim:

“The people in power use their police agencies to arrest their opponents for made up crimes in an attempt to discredit them, bankrupt them, imprison them, exile them, or all of the above. And if you’re not paying attention, you may not realize that Joe Biden is using exactly those tactics to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024. Here’s the problem: If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets.”

It’s the last bit there that’s so scary. But it’s also scary that there are so many right-wingers, starting with Trump and trickling down through the party, who claim that Joe Biden is somehow doing this to Trump, rather than him simply being held accountable under the law by non-partisan courts. Courts that have nothing to do with Joe.

Huckabee is the father of Trump’s former White House Press Secretary and current Governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She has been known to use apocalyptic rhetoric here and there as well. But nothing like this.

Mike is literally saying that if Trump doesn’t just beat the charges but also win the presidency, we’ll have a Civil War. That doesn’t sound like something we should be hearing on a show on the Christian network.

Picked up by progressive watchdog group Right Wing Watch, the video of him saying this is scary on a completely different level. Probably because he sounds so calm and matter-of-fact. All Republicans have a penchant for saying things that way, but being a minister, Huckabee says it with stage presence, like a true performer.

What a damning statement about Trump’s voters — that they are guaranteed to fit a profile of violence if they don’t get their way.

Andrew Simpson
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