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Some members of the Republican Party have decided to show autonomy from the President of the United States. On Thursday, prominent Republican congressmen ruled out the possibility that Donald Trump would not accept a possible defeat in the presidential election on November 3 and ignored his refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power.
“There will be an orderly transition, just as it has been every four years since 1792,” wrote Mitch McConnell, leader of the Republican majority in the United States Senate (upper house of Congress), also ensuring that the winner of the presidential election “will assume the position on January 20 [de 2021]”.
The winner of the November 3 elections will be inaugurated on January 20. There will be an orderly transition as there has been every four years since 1792.
– Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) September 24, 2020
The statements of several members of the Republican Party coincide in guaranteeing that, as the Constitution provides, whoever is defeated in the elections will have to grant the presidency. However, as the American press points out, despite this antagonistic position towards Trump, no Republican has directly condemned the threat of the current president and most of the leading figures in the party remained silent.
One of the names he decided to speak to was Republican Senator Marco Rubio, despite refusing to comment on Donald Trump’s remarks, arguing that he was not a “capable commentator.” Rubio is chairman of the Congressional Information Committee, which recently produced a report that concludes that interference aimed at weakening confidence in the outcome of a given election can have “significant consequences for national and electoral security.”
In any case, the former candidate for the Grand Old Party (GOP) presidential nomination admits that the final result of this year’s presidential elections may take even longer to be known, however “it will be valid.” Unsurprisingly, an important figure to speak of was Mitt Romney, precisely the only Republican senator who voted to convict the president in this year’s impeachment process, which had failed in the Senate.
“A peaceful transition of power is fundamental to democracy; without that, we have Belarus. Any suggestion that a president might not respect this constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable,” Romney said on Twitter.
The peaceful transition of power is fundamental to democracy; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a president may not respect this constitutional guarantee is unthinkable and unacceptable.
– Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) September 24, 2020
Politico writes that Congresswoman Liz Cheney also ensured that US leaders will not stop enforcing the Constitution, a statement that was soon followed by Steve Stivers, who is also a member of the House of Representatives (lower house). For her part, Senator Ben Sasse (Nebraska) recalled that Trump “says nonsense” and that in the United States “there have always been peaceful transitions of power and that is not going to change.”
Trump against voting by mail
Despite the fact that, for several months, Donald Trump has admitted the hypothesis of not accepting the results of the presidential elections of November 3, this Wednesday, for the first time, he assumed, in dismay, that he does not rule out the possibility. of a violent transition of power.
The reason given by the New York tycoon for admitting the possibility of not accepting the electoral result is the persistent criticism of voting by correspondence, mainly because this type of voting is gaining relevance due to a pandemic crisis that has already caused more than 200 thousand deaths in United States.
Trump has publicly admitted to appointing the Republican party donor and his longtime ally, Louis DeJoy, to head the US Postal Service and, in this capacity, to discredit voting by mail.
With the presidential election 40 days away, Democratic candidate Joe Biden continues to lead the polls prominently. According to the average of national polls calculated by NBC, Biden leads with 50.3% of voting intentions compared to 41.8% obtained by the president.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2020
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