The Guardian: American experts fear undermining the presidential elections in 2024 Donald Trump's country on the 2020 presidential race and his participation in the 2024 elections, as well as accusations of the current head of state Joe Biden of stealing votes. In the current situation, American experts fear the undermining of the presidential elections in 2024, they spoke about their fears in an interview with The Guardian.
It is noted that in recent years, experts have recorded increasing manifestations of anti-democratic policies, characterized by attempts to suppress the rights of voters. In particular, in the first six months of this year alone, 18 states passed at least 30 new laws making it difficult for Americans to vote. However, now, experts say, the probable undermining of the elections should be attributed to the threats to democracy.
At the same time, The Guardian's interlocutors note both a possible undermining of the electoral process in 2024 and the danger of invalidating the election results in 2021. “My biggest concern right now is the possibility of undermining the elections. I never thought I would worry about this possibility in the United States, ”said legal scholar Rick Hasen.
All interlocutors, among which there are leading experts and experts in the field of electoral law, fear that the words of the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate of the Congress Mitch McConnell, who 11 months ago said that the revision of the results of the American presidential elections in 2021 by the US Congress threatens irreparable damage to the country and that “democracy will move in a downward spiral of death.”
“In 2020, Donald Trump put tremendous pressure on the fabric of democracy, on the country. In 2024, pulling on that fabric could break it, ”said Ben Ginsberg, a leading election lawyer who represented four of the last six Republican presidential candidates.
The publication notes that machinations are unfolding across the United States at all levels of government, from local polling stations, counties and states to the national level and Congress, rehearsal. ”
Ned Foley, a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University, believes that this is facilitated by the policies of former US President Donald Trump. The specialist believes that Trump is using the tactics of Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, who in the 1950s adhered to the anti-communist ideology of the “red threat”, according to which the 1917 revolution in Russia could entail the threat of the offensive of world communism due to its repetition in other countries … The professor stressed that this is why the present moment is unique in American history, and called it “electoral McCarthyism.”
Earlier, the White House accused Trump of trying to undermine the peaceful transfer of power in the United States. According to the press secretary of the American administration Jen Psaki, the 45th president of America tried to undermine the norms of the American constitution when he refused to recognize the results of the presidential elections in 2020, demanded to recount the votes and investigate the violations committed by the Democrats.