Congressional elections are coming up in the United States. Following the example of ex-President Trump, some Republican candidates might not accept the results. With their vote, voters could influence whether “democracy is preserved or endangered,” warns President Biden.
Six days before the US congressional elections, US President Joe Biden warned of a growing threat to democracy in America. With haunting words, he called on voters to cast their votes on November 8th. “In a normal year, we are not confronted with the question of whether the vote we cast preserves democracy or endangers it,” said the US President. “But this year we are.” Biden spoke at a Democratic campaign event in Washington.
Biden pointed out that next Tuesday’s election will be the first US election since violent supporters of ex-President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. “I wish I could say that the attack on our democracy ended that day. But I can’t,” he said. In the upcoming US elections, candidates at all levels are standing for election “who do not want to commit themselves to accepting the results of the elections in which they are voting.”
Biden’s Republican predecessor Trump has refused to recognize his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Without any evidence, he continues to claim that he was deprived of a victory by electoral fraud. Following this example, individual Republicans running for mandates or offices in the “mid-term” elections on November 8 leave it open whether they will accept the outcome of the election in any case.
In the midterm election in the middle of Biden’s term in office next week in the US all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and about a third of the seats in the Senate will be up for grabs. There are also gubernatorial elections in many states. Many other items are also voted on.
