Can’t take democracy for granted any longer: US President Joe Biden

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Just a week ahead of the November 8 midterm elections in the US, President Joe Biden has urged Americans to unite in opposition to “political violence” and warned that “we cant take democracy for granted any longer”.

In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening from the Union Station in Washington D.C., the President said: “As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America — for Governor, for Congress, for Attorney General, for Secretary of State who won’t commit to accepting the results of the elections they’re in.

“That is the path to chaos in America. It’s unprecedented. It’s unlawful. And it is un-American.” In his address, he blamed his predecessor Donald Trump, whom he did not name, but referred to as “the defeated former President” of “cultivating a lie that has metastasized into a web of conspiracies that has already resulted in targeted violence”.

“This intimidation, this violence against Democrats, Republicans and non-partisan officials just doing their jobs, is the consequence of lies told for power and profit, lies of conspiracy and malice, lies repeated over and over to generate a cycle of anger, hate, vitriol and even violence.