This is no time to stand aside, he declared. “Silence is complicity.” After weeks of reassuring talk about the US economy and inflation, Biden turned to a darker, more urgent message, warning in the final days of midterm voting that democracy itself is threatened by former President Donald Trump’s lies that he denies the elections and the violence he said. inspire. Pointing to the attack on the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he said Trump’s false claims of a stolen election had “fueled a dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years.” Six days before the big midterm elections, Biden said: “As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America, for governor, for Congress, for attorney general, for secretary of state, who will not commit. accepting the results of the elections in which they participate”. “This is the road to chaos in America,” he declared. “It’s unprecedented. It’s illegal. And it’s un-American.” WATCHES | Democracy in danger, warns Biden:
“It’s destructive, it’s corrosive and it’s destructive.”
US President Joe Biden has called out the hundreds of candidates on the midterm ballot who are rejecting the outcome of the 2020 election, saying the potential impact cannot be ignored. “Democracy means rule by the people,” he said in a speech Wednesday night.
“Think long and hard”
Noting growing concerns about political violence as well as threats to America’s long-standing tradition of tough but peaceful and accurate elections, he said these Republicans are “trying to succeed where they failed in 2020 to suppress voter rights and undermine the electoral system itself.” The speech came days after a man who sought to kidnap House Speaker Pelosi seriously injured her husband, Paul Pelosi, at their home in San Francisco and as physical threats shook members of Congress and campaign workers. “There is an alarming increase in the number of people in this country who condone political violence or are simply silent,” Biden said. “We know in our bones that democracy is at risk, but we also know this: It’s up to us to preserve our democracy.” A San Francisco police vehicle is parked outside the home of Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in San Francisco on Saturday after the speaker’s husband was attacked. (Jeff Chiu/The Associated Press) Marking it as the first federal election since the January 6, 2021 uprising and Trump’s efforts to subvert the will of voters in the 2020 presidential election, Biden called on voters to reject candidates who rejected the results of the vote — which included Trump’s administration has declared itself free of any widespread fraud or interference. Biden asked voters to “think very carefully about the moment we are in.” “In a typical year, we are not often faced with the question of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or endanger it,” he said. “But we are this year.” “I hope you will make the future of our democracy an important part of your decision to vote and how you vote,” Biden added, asking Americans to consider whether the candidates they support will respect the will of the people and accept the outcome. of their election. “The answer to this question is vital and in my opinion should be decisive,” he said. WATCHES | Biden goes after those who condone political violence:
“Silence is complicity,” says Biden
“There is an alarming increase in the number of people in this country who condone political violence or are simply silent,” US President Joe Biden warned in a speech on Wednesday ahead of next Tuesday’s midterms.
Republican calls Biden divisive
Biden also aimed to brush off conspiracy theories about continued voting, saying Americans were voting early, by mail and by absentee ballot and that it would take time to count them “in a legal and regular manner.” Major changes to voting in 2020 due to the pandemic led to more early and mail-in voting and record turnout. It took five days for the results of the 2020 presidential election to be final. “It’s important for citizens to be patient,” Biden said. Some Republicans sharply criticized Biden’s remarks. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who will be Speaker of the House if his party regains control of the chamber, tweeted: “President Biden is trying to divide and deflect at a time when America needs to unite – because he can’t talk about his policies that raised the cost of living. The American people aren’t buying it.” Biden made his remarks from Washington’s Union Station, blocks from the US Capitol, just six days before the polls close on November 8 and as more than 27 million Americans have already cast their ballots. Before Biden’s speech, US Capitol Police Chief Tom Munger said he had reviewed the attack on Pelosi’s husband and said he believed the current political climate called for more resources and better security for members of Congress after the mass increase in threats to lawmakers after January 6. made a rare call to end the conspiracies that have swirled around the attack. “Our brave men and women are working around the clock to meet this urgent mission during this divisive time,” he said in a statement. “In the meantime, one important change that will have an immediate impact will be for people across our country to turn down the temperature on political rhetoric before it’s too late.”
The 2020 election naysayers are midterm candidates
Biden delivered a final prime-time speech on what he called the “ongoing battle for the nation’s soul” on September 1 outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, in which he condemned the “MAGA forces” of Donald Trump and his supporters as a threat about America’s system of government. “They are promoting authoritarian leaders and fanning the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country,” Biden said at the time. The new remarks come as hundreds of candidates falsely denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election are on ballots across the country, with many poised to be elected to critical roles overseeing the election. Unlike the September remarks, which drew criticism from some quarters that they were being paid for by taxpayers, Biden’s speech Wednesday night is being hosted by the Democratic National Committee. Many Americans remain pessimistic about the state of US democracy. An October poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only nine percent of respondents said they believed democracy was working “excellently” or “very well,” while 52 percent said it was not working well. .
