The American president addressed the nation six days before the mid-term elections. He warned the candidates who threaten to refuse the result of the vote.
Le Monde
“It is not about me, it is about us, what makes America is America”: six days before the half-mandate elections, the American president, Joe Biden, addressed the voters in a solemn tone on Wednesday, November 2, warning the candidates ready to refuse the result of the vote. “It is unpublished, illegal, and anti-American”, ensuring that it “opens the way to chaos”.
During this ballot, the Americans are called upon to renew all 435 seats in the American Chamber of Representatives and a third of the Senate. A whole series of positions of governors and local elected officials are also at stake.
Among the candidates, the dazzling ascent of Kari Lake, candidate for the post of governor in the highly disputed state of Arizona, particularly worries the Democratic camp. The Republican continues to denounce the result of the 2020 presidential election, ensuring that the election was stolen from Donald Trump, despite the countless evidence of the contrary. This fifties also threatens not to recognize the result of his own election. “I will win the election, this is the result that I will accept,” said the candidate for CNN.
first national election since the Capitole assault
The record number of candidates denying the election of Joe Biden, the disinformation shared through the social networks and the deep political divisions of the country make the authorities fear acts of violence on the sidelines of the November 8 elections. Some electoral and elected officials have already said that they have noted an increase in threats and intimidation. America must oppose “political violence and intimidation of voters”, urged Joe Biden. “We can no longer hold democracy for acquired,” he continued.
The mid-term elections are the first national ballot in which the Americans participated since Donald Trump supporters attacked the headquarters of the Congress on January 6, 2021 in nameless chaos. “I would like to be able to say that the assault against our democracy ended that day. But I cannot,” said Joe Biden, who is trying as best they can to focus the debate around this question, when The Republicans attack him on his economic assessment.
The former president, Donald Trump, who has never recognized his defeat for the 2020 presidential election, seems to prepare to challenge the results of the midterms, if they were to be unfavorable to the Republicans. “Let’s go back! Electoral ridges!”, Said, without any evidence, the billionaire, omnipresent in the campaign on Tuesday, on his social network, Truth Social.