“It is unprecedented, illegal and un-American”: six days before the midterm elections, US President Joe Biden will warn candidates who are willing to reject the results of the vote on Wednesday, assuring that this “opens the way to chaos ”.
“There are candidates who are running at all levels of the US administration (…) who refuse to commit to accepting the results of the elections in which they are candidates,” he will declare in the afternoon, according to excerpts from his speech. freed by the party of him.
“This paves the way for chaos in the United States,” the Democratic leader will warn. During this election, Americans are called upon to renew all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. A whole series of governorships and local elected positions is also at stake.
Among the candidates, the meteoric rise of Kari Lake, a candidate for governor in the hotly contested state of Arizona, has Democrats breaking out in a cold sweat.
Trump prepares to question the results
The Republican continues to denounce the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, claiming that the election was stolen from Donald Trump, despite innumerable evidence to the contrary. This 50-year-old woman also threatens not to recognize the result of her own ballot. “I will win the election, this is the result I will accept,” the candidate told CNN.
The record number of candidates denying the election of Joe Biden, the misinformation shared through social media and the country’s deep political divisions have authorities fearing violence on the sidelines of the November 8 election.
Former President Donald Trump, who has never admitted defeat in the 2020 presidential election, also appears to be preparing to question the midterms’ outcome, if they go unfavorable to Republicans.
The midterm elections are the first nationwide polls Americans have participated in since supporters of Donald Trump stormed the seat of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021 amid untold chaos.
Source: BFM TV
