The president of the United States, Joe Biden, affirmed this Wednesday, six days before the midterm elections, that the ignorance of the results of the elections “opens the way to chaos”, in addition to being “illegal and anti-American”.
“I wish I could say the assault on our democracy ended that day, but I can’t,” Biden said. in reference to the number of candidates who expressed their willingness not to accept the results of the vote next Tuesday, the first electoral appointment in the country since the attack on the Capitol.
The head of the White House remarked that “There are candidates running at all levels of the US administration who refuse to commit to accepting the election results.”
“We must, with an overwhelming voice, oppose political violence and voter intimidation, period,” Biden pointed out, and questioned the “alarming increase” of public figures who approve of those acts that he considered at odds with democracy.
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“We have to face this problem, we can’t turn our backs on it, we can’t pretend it’s going to take care of itself.” he urged, according to the AFP news agency.
Next Tuesday, the citizens of the United States will renew all the seats in the House of Representatives and a third of those in the Senate, and will have to elect numerous regional and local positions, including governors.
“I will win the election, this is the result I will accept,” challenged Kari Lake, 50-year-old candidate for governor of the state of Arizona, speaking to CNN.
Lake is one of the Republican leaders who continue to maintain that the result of the 2020 elections was fraudulent to the benefit of Biden and to the detriment of Trump.
“Rigged election,” Trump himself claimed in his social network Truth Social, in allusion to alleged signs of fraud in voting by mail in the state of Pennsylvania.
