“He has abused his power and put the loyalty to himself above loyalty to the constitution.
He again identified Trump as the architect of the chaos. Police tape blocks a street outside the home of Nancy and Paul Pelosi in San Francisco. In 2020 Trump falsely claimed that mail-in votes tabulated after election day were illegitimate. But this year we are.”īiden sought to pre-empt potential disinformation and unrest on election night, pointing out that it takes time to count all legitimate ballots so voters need to be patient. In a typical year, we are not often faced with the question of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put it at risk. “This is no ordinary year so I ask you to think long and hard about the moment we’re in.
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He called on voters to reject candidates who have denied the results of the vote which even Trump’s administration declared to be free of any widespread fraud or interference, urging them to “think long and hard about the moment we are in”. As I’ve said before, you can’t love your country only when you win.” “As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America, for governor, Congress, attorney general, secretary of state, who won’t commit to accepting the results of the elections that they’re running in. I wish I could say the assault on our democracy had ended that day. The president warned that it is estimated more than 300 election deniers are on the ballot across America this year with an impact he described as damaging, corrosive and destructive. “I wish I could say the assault on our democracy had ended that day,” Biden remarked. The midterms will determine control of Congress and mark the first nationwide test of American democracy since Trump lost the White House and his supporters laid siege to the Capitol. We must with one overwhelming, unified voice speak, as a country, and say there’s no place for voter intimidation or political violence in America.” Trump’s false claims about a stolen election have “fuelled the dangerous rise of political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years”, Biden said.
He noted that the hammer–wielding assailant had asked “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?” – the same words used by the rioters on January 6. He began his remarks, hosted by the Democratic National Committee, by citing last week’s attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, at their home in San Francisco. A CBS News poll late last month found that 63% of likely Democratic voters say a functioning democracy is a bigger concern than a strong economy, but 70% of Republican voters say the opposite.īiden acknowledged that there was much at stake in the midterm elections, just six days away, but insisted: “Make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us.”Īttendees look on as Joe Biden speaks about threats to Democracy and political violence on Wednesday. Its effect on an election in which 27 million people have already voted was also uncertain. The conservative Fox News channel ran captions such as “Biden ignores crime & inflation to talk about ‘threat to democracy’” and “Divider in chief”. Biden delivered his address to supporters under a painted ceiling in an ornate room at Washington’s Union Station, which is within sight of the US Capitol that was stormed on January 6 last year by a furious mob of Trump supporters.īehind him were eight US flags and a blue curtain – a less dramatic backdrop than the red and blue lights of his “ Battle for the Soul of the Nation speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall two months ago, where he spoke on similar themes.īut just as that address was framed by Republicans as an attack on their voters, his latest remarks found little unity.
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