Driver in Florida Plows Van Into Trump Voter Registration Tent
Authorities in Florida were searching Saturday night for a driver who they claim drove his van into a Republican Party voter registration tent in a shopping center parking lot, just missing six volunteers working there.
The suspect, described as a white man in his 20s, then got out of his vehicle and recorded video of the smashed tent, and flashed a middle finger to the startled voter-registration volunteers before driving off, FOX 30 of Jacksonville reported.
Photos posted by the Republican Party of Duval County showed Trump-Pence placards and bumper stickers strewn around the parking lot, along with the toppled tent. Another photo showed an older model brown-and-tan van driving away from the scene. . .
Today in Jacksonville, Florida six Trump Campaign volunteers were intentionally targeted while registering voters. pic.twitter.com/0wzaCYh5ut
— Duval County GOP (@DuvalGOP) February 8, 2020
LIVE at 11 on @ActionNewsJax- Van plows through voter registration tent, narrowly missing volunteers. It’s a story garnering national attention. What the President is saying, coming up! @BenBeckerANjax
@bridgetteANjax https://t.co/wcKvQmntSL— Russell Colburn (@RussellANjax) February 9, 2020
Jacksonville authorities said the driver intentionally tried to strike the tent with his vehicle, the Florida Times-Union reported.
“We are investigating this as an aggravated assault,” Lt. Larry Gayle of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told the newspaper. “Several people were in the area and could have been seriously hurt.”
“I call on every Republican in our great city to stand up, get involved, and show these radicals that we will not be intimidated from exercising our Constitutional rights.”
— Duval County GOP (@DuvalGOP) February 8, 2020
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