The President of the United States, Joe Biden, assured this Friday that he does not believe that the presidential elections of November 5 will be “peaceful” and fears that Republican Donald Trump will not accept the result if he loses.
“I am sure they will be free and fair. I don’t know if they will be peaceful. The things that Trump said, and the things he said last time, when he didn’t like the outcome of the election, were very dangerous,” said the president, who made a surprise intervention at the conference press releases held daily by the White House.
Trump has been responsible for four years for continuing to fuel the theory that the election was “stolen” from him in 2020. That same Tuesday, during the vice-presidential debate, Republican JD Vance refused to accept that Trump lost and proposed a revisionist solution. version of the assault on the Capitol, which he described as a “peaceful” demonstration. Trump, in the two previous presidential elections against Joe Biden and, later, against Kamala Harris, has denied his connection to what happened at the Capitol on January 6. “I only gave one speech,” he said last September to Harris.
The federal judge in the federal case against Trump, tried in Washington for trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election (and which remains frozen), gave the green light this Wednesday to special prosecutor Jack Smith to release new details on how the tycoon tried to rig the outcome of the presidential elections. In the allegations, part of which is subject to summary secrecy, the prosecutor assures that the actions of the president at the time were not typical of his case, but rather constituted “private criminal conduct”.
“Together with private conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost,” says the document, which attempts to circumvent Trump’s presidential immunity recognized by the Supreme Court and thus resolve the case. .
Last week, the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service warned that election workers in at least 20 states had received packages containing threats and “unknown” substances. It’s a reality that is gaining notoriety as the date approaches, even though those responsible and those close to them have been receiving letters containing gunpowder and death threats for months. For months, election boards in some counties have offered training sessions on how to keep workers safe on voting day and during counting.
The disaster the hurricane left in its wake Helene throughout Florida, the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, also left many polling places flooded and disabled. Likewise, the postal voting system was disrupted in the worst affected areas, where houses were razed. Georgia and North Carolina are among the group of key states that will decide the November 5 election, and they are two places where the battle between Trump and Harris is very close in the polls.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas predicts a “high-risk” election and the federal government is already planning to significantly increase Capitol security during the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count electoral votes to prevent a repeat of the assault on January 6, 2021.
On the social network X, Elon Musk was also responsible for giving wings to conspiracy theories about the voting process. In recent weeks, he has taken it upon himself to republish posts claiming that illegal immigrants were registered to vote in these elections for the Democrats. In the United States, it is considered a crime to register to vote without having citizenship.
The director of the electoral protection sector of the bipartisan platform Issue One, Carah Ong Whaley, explained to elDiario.es how distrust in the electoral system continues to increase. “We see how people continue to believe the things Trump says about the electoral process and the false claims he makes about it,” Whaley said.
In a national survey conducted in August by Issue One and Citizen Data, only 63% of Trump voters said they would believe the outcome of the November 5 election, compared to 93% of Harris voters. Similarly, only 44% of Trump voters will trust the results if their candidate loses, compared to 79% of Harris voters.
The atmosphere of tension also does not help the growing distrust. After the second assassination attempt against Trump, Republicans added fuel to the fire and accused Democrats of fomenting this failed assassination with their “rhetoric.” In fact, the former president plans to return to Butler this Saturday and hold a rally where Thomas Crooks opened fire on him on July 13. The event, which will be attended by Musk and the family of the firefighter who died in the shooting, is expected to reignite in the latter part of the campaign the energy that was unleashed after Trump emerged undefeated.
