Joe Biden and Donald Trump do not appear on the ballot, but their political future — like that of an America that has never been so divided — could largely be decided by how Americans vote in Tuesday’s interim. congressional elections.
Biden knows from the outset that history is against him: an incumbent’s party has rarely won a midterm election in his first term. If the tradition continues, the president for the remaining two years of his term will be what Americans call a “lame duck” – a leader unable to impose his political agenda, including continued aid to Ukraine.
But this election is not just a referendum on Biden. They are also a testament to Trump’s electoral strength. If the candidates selected by the former president succeed, Trump could already reserve a seat among the 2024 presidential candidates.
At stake in this election are 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate, in addition to governors and other government officials. Polls say Republicans could win a majority in both houses by simply giving up five seats in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. If they have a majority in the House of Representatives, they have already pledged to stop investigating the Capitol heist and launch an investigation into the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden’s immigration policy, and President Hunter’s son’s relationship with China, among other priorities.
More than half of the Republican candidates, not only in Congress but also at the state level, are radicals who support Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was “stolen”, and many of them, if elected, will take positions in which they could change electoral rules in favor of the ex-president on the second try, so the Democrats say that democracy itself is at stake in this election.
More than 40 million voters have already voted in advance, mostly by mail. Many of those votes won’t be counted until tomorrow and could be decisive in many states where voting is tough, meaning the final results will be known in a few days. In these cases, it may be that the candidate who initially led the tally may be overtaken by a rival in the last ballot box, prompting possible allegations of fraud by the loser, similar to what happened in the 2020 presidential election. elections with Trump.
Not coincidentally, threats against state officials responsible for counting and confirming votes have increased in recent weeks, and the FBI has warned of an increased risk of post-election violence.
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Radicals and anti-democrats
Most Republican candidates have doubts about the 2020 results, and many of them stand a good chance of being elected to positions that will give them the ability to manipulate the upcoming election. This is the case of Doug Mastriano, the Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate who took part in the storming of the Capitol. Mark Fincham, a member of the racist Oath Keepers organization who is trying to become Arizona secretary of state, says he “doesn’t know anyone” who voted for Biden, while Matthew DePerno, who is running in Michigan, threatened to arrest his Democratic challenger if he will win.
Putin ally admits interference
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner mercenary group and one of Vladimir Putin’s top allies, has openly admitted to “interfering” in the US election. “We have already done it, we are doing it and we will continue. Carefully and surgically,” he said on Monday.
Author: Ricardo Ramos
Source: CM Jornal
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