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A hammer-wielding man attacked US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband during a break-in at the couple’s San Francisco home early on Friday, authorities said, in an assault that raised fears about political violence ahead of the Nov 8 midterm elections.

ReutersFormer Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi arrive for the funeral service for late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings at the New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, US, October 25, 2019.Former Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi arrive for the funeral service for late U.S.

The Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, who is second in the constitutional line of succession to the US presidency, was in Washington with her protective detail at the time of the assault, according to the US Capitol Police. It was unclear how the intruder got into the three-story red brick townhouse in the affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood. Aerial photos showed shattered glass on a door at the rear of the house. Streets around the residence were closed off on Friday morning.The assault occurred less than two weeks before midterm elections in which control of the House and US Senate is at stake.

President Joe Biden called Pelosi to express his support, according to White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre. Republicans have been campaigning on concerns about violent crime, as well as inflation and other quality-of-life issues. San Francisco’s crime rate in 2021 was 1.5 times the national average, according to several crime-tracking websites.

 

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So the threat was in San Francisco not Sandton

What must we do about that, do we have to provide security for her husband

Its because of them regarding police as Americas enemy,now look what has happened. The chickens have come to their home to roost.

Where was their intelligence?

Well the laws on the state of California are off their own design, from what I hear from the insanely run Democrat led state, so this is off their own doing, no sympathies over here.

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