A few days before the US congressional elections, the White House is concerned about the political mood in the country. There is an “alarming number” of Republicans who have indicated they do not want to recognize the election results, government headquarters spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in Washington on Wednesday. “We have also seen recent political violence that is equally alarming and disturbing.”
According to President Joe Biden, the United States is at a turning point. “This is not a normal moment in our democracy,” emphasized Jean-Pierre. Biden wanted to respond to the topic in a speech Wednesday evening (local time).
Biden: ‘threat to democracy’
Asked whether the White House feared that refusing to recognize election results could lead to political violence, the spokeswoman said: “I don’t want to speculate about what might happen.” But the president said such statements posed a “threat to democracy.” .
To this day, Trump refuses to acknowledge his defeat
Biden’s predecessor, Republican US President Donald Trump, has refused to acknowledge his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Without any proof, he continues to claim that he was robbed of a victory by electoral fraud. Following on from this example, individual Republicans running for mandates or office in the Nov. 8 “midterm” election leave it open whether they will accept the election results anyway.
In the aggressive campaign, a violent attack on Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband raised fears of politically motivated violence. The perpetrator was actually targeting the powerful Speaker of the House of Representatives, but he did not meet her.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and about a third of the seats in the Senate are up for grabs in the US midterm elections next week. There are also governor elections in many states.
Source: Krone
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