Is American democracy threatened?

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Before the midterm elections in the United States, which will take place on Tuesday November 8, American President Joe Biden points to the risk of chaos and puts warns against the 300 Republican candidates who would refuse to recognize the results in the event of defeat.

On Wednesday November 2, Joe Biden issued a grim warning less than a week before the US midterm elections. “American democracy is in danger. We see candidates for all important positions, governors, deputies, secretaries of state, who do not want to commit to recognizing the results”, declares the American president. An act “illegal” and “anti-American” according to him. To date, nearly 300 Republicans, candidates for the ballot next week, have not recognized the results of the last presidential election in 2020.

Some argue that they will not admit defeat. A rhetoric launched by their mentor, Donald Trump, for whom the 2020 elections had been rigged. “If you can, you should go and vote, in person. It will be more difficult for them to cheat”, launches the former president. In the United States, voters can vote in person or by mail several days before the election date. In Arizona, armed and masked men, members of a citizens’ militia, guard mailboxes to vote, supposedly to prevent fraud.


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