US President Joe Biden has warned that any candidate who refuses to concede defeat in next week’s mid-term elections could lead the nation to ‘chaos’.
He urged Americans to unite against “political violence” in the Nov. 8 vote.
Mr Biden, a Democrat, said former President Donald Trump and his supporters were telling “conspiracy and malicious lies”.
Republicans hit back saying Mr Biden was trying to “divide and devolve”.
Control of both houses of Congress and key state governorships hang in the balance in next week’s elections.
Most forecasts suggest Republicans will take control of the House of Representatives, while the Senate could go either way.
Mr. Biden spoke in nationally televised remarks Wednesday evening at Union Station in Washington, D.C. — just a few streets from where Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last year in an effort to overturn the 2020 election results. It was storming.
Mr. Biden blamed Mr. Trump — whom he did not name, but referred to as a “defeated former president” — for inspired threats by some Republican candidates if he loses next week. So refuse to accept the consequences.
“This is the path to chaos in America,” Mr. Biden said. “It’s unprecedented. It’s illegal. And it’s un-American.”
The president also tried to link Mr. Trump’s campaign rhetoric to last week’s hammer attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He argued that Mr Trump’s “big lie that the 2020 election was stolen” was the driving force behind both the attack on Paul Pelosi, 82, and the US Capitol riots.
“It is this lie that has fueled an alarming rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years,” Mr. Biden said.
The president spoke as a federal judge in Arizona issued a restraining order against a group of Trump supporters, sometimes armed or wearing ballistic vests, for harassing voters near ballot boxes in the border state. has been accused of
The US government last week distributed a bulletin to law enforcement agencies warning of the “increased risk” of domestic violent extremism, adding that candidates and campaigners with “ideological grievances” should be targeted. Individuals can be targeted.
Republicans reacted to Mr. Biden’s remarks, saying he was trying to distract Americans from his own low approval rating and U.S. inflation.
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who will become speaker of the House next week if his party wins control next week, tweeted: “President Biden is trying to divide and derail at a time like this. This is when America needs to unite – because they can’t. Talk about their policies that have raised the cost of living.
“The American people are not buying it.”
According to the JEE News, more than half of the 595 Republicans participating in the statewide presidential election, 306, have raised doubts about the 2020 presidential election.
