US President Joe Biden voted early on Saturday in the midterm elections, which could cost him a parliamentary majority, and denounced the political violence plaguing the United States.
Accompanied by his granddaughter Natalie, who was voting for the first time, Joe Biden cast his vote in his stronghold of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware.
Dressed in a navy blue blazer over a striped shirt, no tie and aviator sunglasses on his nose, he left the polling station with a small sticker attached to his jacket: “I voted.”
Biden laments the political climate
Speaking about the attack on the husband of the leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi, attacked on the night of Thursday to Friday at his home in California, Joe Biden denounced the political climate in the country and those who follow in the footsteps of the former president. Donald Trump to challenge the election result.
“It is one thing to condemn the violence. But you cannot condemn the violence unless you condemn all those who continue to claim that the elections were not real, that they were stolen, all that nonsense that undermines democracy,” he told reporters. .
Paul Pelosi’s assailant was actually targeting the leader of the House Democrats.
“It’s not a referendum”
“I feel good,” Joe Biden also assured less than two weeks before the elections, while the vast majority of polls predict that the Republican opposition will regain control of the House of Representatives.
Mid-term polls are traditionally unfavorable for the ruling party in the United States, and the one to be held on November 8 should be no exception, short of a big surprise.
“It is not a referendum. It is a choice. A choice between two very different visions of the country. That’s what it’s all about,” the Democratic president said.
Many Americans have already begun voting in these elections either by mail or directly at a polling place.
In addition to examining both houses of Congress, the ballot involves governors in dozens of states, as well as thousands of other positions at the state and county levels.
Source: BFM TV
