It would be “unprecedented”, “illegal”, “un-American”: Six days before the polls open in the US midterm elections, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned candidates who made no secret of their intention to challenge the election results. polls in case they fail, that if they do, they will “open the door to chaos”.

“We can no longer take democracy for granted,” the 79-year-old president said in an extremely heavy tone.

This was expressed near the Capitol, the seat of the federal Congress, where supporters of Donald Trump, convinced that he had won the 2020 presidential election, launched an attack and caused chaos on January 6, 2021, shocking the country. and the whole world.

“I would like to be able to say that the attack on our democracy ended that day. But I’m not in that position,” Joe Biden exploded, listing candidates ready to challenge the results of the November 8 election, the first in the country since the attack.

“There are candidates running for office at all levels of the American government (…) who refuse to recognize the results of the elections in which they participate,” said the occupant of the White House from the Democratic Party.

These elections determine all the seats in the House of Representatives, one-third of the seats in the Senate, the positions of governors and local electors.

Among candidates, the lightning-fast rise of Kari Lake, a gubernatorial candidate in Arizona, where a fierce political struggle is expected, is causing a lull among Democrats.

The Republican continues to condemn the 2020 presidential election results, insisting that the victory was stolen by Donald Trump despite evidence to the contrary. The 53-year-old former television presenter threatens not to recognize the result in Arizona if she loses: “I will win the election, this is the result that I will accept,” the candidate explained to CNN.

Former President Trump, who has never conceded defeat in the 2020 presidential election, also looks set to challenge the midterm results if they don’t sit well with the Republicans.

This would put America “into a path of chaos,” Joe Biden insisted, urging his fellow citizens to speak out against “political violence and voter intimidation.”

As an example, he cited the case of Paul Pelosi, the husband of the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, who was attacked with a hammer in his home early Friday morning. The intruder insisted on knowing where his wife Nancy was.

Electoral commission members and elected officials stress that they are seeing an increase in threats and intimidation.

Inflation

Conspiracy theorists are “resolute” and sometimes “force themselves to be heard,” said Mr. Biden, who has tried unsuccessfully to place the defense of democracy at the center of political dialogue while Republicans simply prefer to attack his opinion on the economic front.

By constantly blaming the Democratic president for not adequately coping with “relentless” inflation, Republicans look increasingly confident that they will deprive him of his party’s slim majority in both houses of Congress.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, 36% of Americans say inflation is the most “pressing” issue facing the country.

From afar follows the right to abortion, with calls for which the Democrats are trying to mobilize their base (10%). Protection of electoral procedures concerns 6%.

Several recent polls show the Republican Party has a very strong chance of winning the House of Representatives, but the fate of the Senate seems less certain.

Joe Biden is struggling to turn the tide. Americans are “suffering” from inflation, he admitted yesterday at a White House event on manufacturing jobs.

Faced with headwinds, some Democrats are calling in… cavalry to hope for their salvation: former President Barack Obama among other gifted speakers in particular.

“If you’re feeling anxious or desperate right now (…), don’t complain,” and especially “don’t let the other side convince you that your vote doesn’t count,” Mr. Obama warned Wednesday in Arizona. state contested by Cary Lake.

Source: RES-IPE