Biden says he doesn’t know if US election will be peaceful – 10/04/2024 – World

US President Joe Biden said today Friday (4) that he does not know whether the presidential election will be held peacefully in the country.

“I hope it will be free and fair, I don’t know if it will be peaceful [Donald] Trump said, and the things he said last time when he didn’t like the election results are very dangerous,” Biden said.

Notably, Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance, did not confirm during this week’s vice presidential debate that he would accept the outcome of next month’s vote, the Democrat said.

Asked by moderators during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate whether he intended to contest the results of this year’s election, Vance said he was “focused on the future” even though all the governors have certified the results.

Trump is running against Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5 in a tight race defined by a handful of swing states.

The outcome of US elections is determined by the state electoral colleges, in which whoever receives the most popular votes in each state wins the votes of all state representatives. Therefore, it is possible to win the popular vote at the national level, but lose the election if the key states are lost in the dispute.

Trump, who visited the Hurricane Helen response center in Evans, Georgia on Friday, said he didn’t hear what Biden had to say about the election results.

“I hope it’s free and fair,” he told reporters. I think it will be in this state and I believe it will be in all states,” the former president said.

Georgia is one of Trump’s battlegrounds in 2020. The Republican is the target of a criminal case in Georgia in which he is accused of trying to reverse his loss in the state when he lost to Biden that year. For example, it cited a phone conversation between the then-president and a secretary of state in which Trump “said he wanted to find 11,780 votes.” No trial date yet.

The former president’s allies have, in fact, made Georgia a battleground, approving the body in charge of overseeing elections in the state, and on the 20th, a new rule that would force all counties in the state to count votes by hand.

The decision, which comes less than seven weeks before the polls, is meant to delay the release of results in the state, crucial to this year’s polls. Critics say the system is more prone to errors, prone to fraud and costly to taxpayers. It is feared that the situation could lead to a chaotic situation.

This week, U.S. attorneys said Trump acted outside the scope of his duties as president when he pressured state officials and then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to reverse his 2020 election loss.

In the wake of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Congress, during a ceremony to certify Biden’s victory, Republicans also became a defendant in a case investigating his participation in efforts to overturn the election.