“We can no longer take democracy for granted,” the 79-year-old president said, his tone extremely heavy.
It would be “unprecedented”, “illegal”, “un-American”: six days before the polls open for the midterm elections in the US, US President Joe Biden warned yesterday Wednesday the candidates who do not hide their intention to challenge the results of the votes in case they are defeated that if they actually do, they will “open the door to chaos”.
“We can no longer take democracy for granted,” the 79-year-old president said, his tone extremely heavy.
It was expressed a short distance from the Capitol, the seat of the federal Congress, where supporters of Donald Trump, convinced that he was the winner of the 2020 presidential election, launched an attack and caused chaos on January 6, 2021, shocking the country and the whole world.
“I would like to be able to say that the attack on our democracy ended that day. But I’m not in a position,” Joe Biden blasted, listing candidates poised to challenge the results of the Nov. 8 election, the first in the country since that attack.
“There are candidates running for office at all levels of the American public administration (…) who refuse to commit to accepting the results of the elections in which they participate,” said the Democratic occupant of the White House.
In these elections, all the seats of the House of Representatives, one third of the seats of the Senate, the positions of governors and local electors are decided.
Among the candidates, the meteoric rise of Kari Lake, a gubernatorial candidate in what is expected to be a bitter political battle in Arizona, is giving Democrats a cold sweat.
The Republican continues to denounce the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, insisting that the victory was stolen by Donald Trump, despite evidence to the contrary. The 53-year-old former TV host is threatening at the same time that she will not recognize the result in Arizona if she loses: “I will win the election, this is the result I will accept,” the candidate explained to CNN.
Former President Trump, who has never conceded defeat in the 2020 presidential election, also appears to be preparing to challenge the outcome of the midterms if it is unsatisfactory for Republicans.
That would put America “on the road to chaos,” Joe Biden insisted, calling on his fellow citizens to oppose “political violence and voter intimidation.”
He cited as an example the case of Paul Pelosi, the husband of the outgoing speaker of the House of Representatives, who was attacked with a hammer inside his home in the early hours of Friday morning. The attacker insisted on knowing where his wife Nancy was.
Electoral committee members and elected officials stress that they see an increase in threats and intimidation.
But the “urgency” for Americans is inflation
Conspiracy theorists are “determined” and sometimes “make themselves heard,” said Mr. Biden, who is trying, without much success, to put the defense of democracy at the center of the political dialogue, while Republicans simply prefer to attacks his account in the field of economics.
Incessantly accusing the Democratic president of inadequately dealing with “relentless” inflation, Republicans look increasingly confident of depriving him of his party’s slim majority in both houses of Congress.
According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 36% of Americans consider inflation to be the most “urgent” issue for the country.
The right to abortion, with appeals in defense of which Democrats are trying to mobilize their base, follows at a distance (10%). The defense of electoral procedures concerns 6%.
Several recent polls show the GOP has a very strong chance of winning the House, however the fate of the Senate seems less certain.
Joe Biden is struggling to turn the tide. Americans are “suffering” from inflation, he acknowledged earlier yesterday at the White House at an event on manufacturing jobs.
As they encounter headwinds, some Democrats are calling in the…cavalry, in which they are pinning their hopes to save them: notably, among other gifted orators, former President Barack Obama.
“If you’re feeling anxious or desperate right now (…), don’t complain,” and above all, “don’t let the other side convince you that your vote doesn’t count,” Mr. Obama admonished yesterday in Arizona — the state he’s vying for Carrie Lake.
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